May 2025 | Controller Decisions at the Indian Patent Office – a pictographic summary

Jurisdiction, Patents

This post covers the decisions issued by the Indian Patent Office from May 1 – May 31, 2025 at the Indian Patent Office. A total of 1276 decisions were obtained. This data set was cleaned and duplicates discarded. Thereafter, minimal manual intervention was done to ensure that the data is consistent, application numbers are read correctly, etc.. Thereafter charts were prepared using python / dash.

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April 2025 | Controller Decisions at the Indian Patent Office – a pictographic summary

Jurisdiction, Patents

This post covers the decisions issued by the Indian Patent Office from April 1 – April 30, 2025 at the Indian Patent Office. A total of 1082 decisions were obtained. This data set was cleaned and duplicates discarded. Thereafter, minimal manual intervention was done to ensure that the data is consistent, application numbers are read correctly, etc.. Thereafter charts were prepared using python / dash.

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CCI vs. Schott Glass | Kapoor Glass vs. Schott Glass | 2025 INSC 668

Competition, Jurisdiction

The Supreme Court’s use and of EU jurisprudence in Kapoor Glass—including the British Airways, TeliaSonera, Microsoft, and Intel cases—provides a rigorous framework to assess abuse of dominant position, emphasizing an effects-based analysis, objective justifications, and market evidence.   These use of these cases reflect that India is with EU and US standards, prioritizing competitive harm over presumptive abuse, though diverging from China’s proactive stance.  The Court’s approach ensures predictability for dominant firms but risks under-regulating in concentrated markets.  

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SEP / /FRAND Related decisions across the globe

Competition, Jurisdiction, Patents, SEPs

This posts lists out the number of cases that have been filed across the globe regarding Standard Essential Patents (SEPs).  The different jurisdictions are: 

Delhi High Court; UK High Court (EWHC) Business and Property Courts, Court of Appeal (EWCA);  Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; Courts in Germany including Munich ; Mannheim, Karlsruhe, State of Rio de Janeiro Judiciary, Supreme People’s Court (China), etc.   Various decisions issued by Competition authorities across the globe are also listed.   Each of these decisions can be accessed from the Resources Tab on this website on the respective page.

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The Ferid Allani judgement and the changed Indian patent landscape for software patents

Patents, Software Patents

Shortly before the term of a patent (if granted) would expire, in an ex-parte order issued by the IPAB authored by Justice Manmohan Singh, the IPAB finally granted a patent to Ferid Allani for an application filed almost two-decades ago for an invention relating to ‘A method and device for accessing information sources and services of the

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Delhi HC Becomes the Go to Venue for Adjudicating SEP Disputes in India

Jurisdiction, SEPs

A couple of days ago, InterDigital filed two patent infringement law suits against Xiaomi at the Delhi High Court (DHC) for infringement of its standard essential patents (SEPs). The matters are CS(Comm) 295/2020 and 296/2020 for infringement of its patents related to cellular and H.265/HEVC – (video compression) technologies. These are IN262910; IN295912 ; IN298719;  IN313036; &

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Chinese Court issues anti-suit injunction as re pending DHC case InterDigital v. Xiaomi

Competition, SEPs

In a matter brought by Xiaomi against InterDigital, a Chinese court just (September 23, 2020) issued an anti-suit injunction against InterDigital from pursuing matters pending in the Delhi High Court. InterDigital also stands to be fined up to one million yuan per day if it were to violate the order. InterDigital has filed an anti

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China rules on adjusted royalty base for SEP licensing

Competition, SEPs

Image First posted 2015 Earlier this month the Chinese Anti-trust authority (NDRC) gave its decision in the Qualcomm matter involving Chinese Anti-Monopoly Law (AML).  This decision is a landmark decision where Qualcomm was found to have engaged in anti-competitive conduct relating to the licensing of standard essential patents (“SEPs”) for wireless communication technology and baseband

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India’s first Anti-Anti Suit Injunction (or A2SI) Order: A missed opportunity

Patents, SEPs

First Posted May 2021 On 03 May, 2021, the Delhi High Court in InterDigital Corp & Ors. v Xiaomi Corp & Ors. issued its first and presumably first global A2SI InterDigital v Xiaomi DHC 03052021.pdf 1.47 MB  (this terminology was first introduced by Florian Mueller on his blog fosspatents.com here).  The judgment confirms its earlier order of 09.10.2020 in

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