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The Indian Jungle – an IP perspective, part 2

By Michael Bech Sommer | Posted on March 10, 2015

To foreign applicants filing a patent application in India takes place “at the IPO”, but in reality there is a choice of venue which is not trivial. The Indian patent office (IPO) is headquartered at Kolkata (formerly known as Calcutta) with branches in Chennai (formerly Madras), New Delhi and Mumbai (formerly Bombay). The office of...

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Poverty versus patenting in India – round two

By Jeanette Jakobsson | Posted on November 22, 2012

Earlier this year the first compulsory license, regarding the anti-cancer drug Sorafenib, was granted in India. (See previous blog post.) The compulsory license was granted inter alia on the ground that the patented invention was not available to the public at a reasonable affordable price. The battle towards affordable medicaments in India continues. In a...

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India Grants the First Compulsory License

By Jeanette Jakobsson | Posted on March 30, 2012

The Compulsory License Application No. 1 of 2011, the first of its kind in the history of the Indian Patents Act 1970, concerns the anti-cancer drug Sorafenib, where the patentee is Bayer Corporation and the applicant for a compulsory license is Natco Pharma Limited. The anti-cancer drug Sorafenib, sold under the brand name NEXAVAR, is...

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