Over the past year I’ve been tracking and analysing Controller Decisions issued by the Indian Patent Office, publishing a monthly pictographic summary for April, May, June, July and August 2025 (September was skipped). With the full Indian financial year – April 2025 through March 2026 – now complete, this post pulls all twelve months together into a single annual view.
China’s Approach OPPO v. Sharp (Supreme People’s Court, August 19, 2021): OPPO sued Sharp to determine global FRAND licensing rates for Sharp’s 3G, 4G, Wi-Fi, and HEVC SEPs, following Sharp’s infringement lawsuits in Japan, Germany, and Taiwan. The SPC upheld the Guangzhou IP Court’s jurisdiction, citing OPPO’s Chinese manufacturing base and the parties’ intent to
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Brazil’s Approach SEPs and their licensing under FRAND terms have become critical issues in Brazil, a major smartphone market with over 160 million internet users, ranking as the fifth-largest globally. Brazil’s pro-patentee judicial environment has made it a hotspot for SEP enforcement, particularly in telecommunications, where SEPs underpin 2G––5G standards. Brazilian courts, especially in Rio de
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Background This is a blog series on jurisdictional conflicts in Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) and Fair, Reasonable, and Non-Discriminatory (FRAND) licensing. In this series, we look at how different countries handle these disputes, which often span borders and involve high-stakes in tech. This series is based on a detailed analysis of key cases from 2010 to
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This post covers the decisions issued by the Indian Patent Office fromAugust 1 – August 31, 2025 at the Indian Patent Office. A total of 1100+ decisions were obtained. This data set was cleaned and duplicates discarded resulting in about 850 unique decisions. 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 / plotly.
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This post covers the decisions issued by the Indian Patent Office from July 1 – July 31, 2025 at the Indian Patent Office. A total of 1200+ 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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This post covers the decisions issued by the Indian Patent Office from June 1 – June 30, 2025 at the Indian Patent Office. A total of 1226 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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Summary: This post covers the decision of the Supreme People’s Court of China’s decision in the case of Advanced Codec Technologies, LLC v. Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corp., Ltd. (Case Nos. (2022) Zhimin Zhong 907, 910, 911, 916, 917, 918, decided on December 12, 2023) addresses a complex dispute over Fair, Reasonable And Non-Discriminatory (FRAND) terms for Standard Essential Patents (SEPs). This case involves six patents related to
Summary: In July 2023, a Division Bench ofthe Delhi High Court had in the appeal filed by Oppo against Nokia, held that a single judge could issue pro tem orders mandating security deposits for securing the interests of the patentee during the time the litigation persists. Oppo appealed to the Supreme Court of India, but the
Summary: On April 15, 2025, the European Patent Office (EPO) Boards of Appeal issued a significant decision in case T 1193/23, addressing a patent dispute involving a method for safely starting and stopping a rotor in a rotor spinning machine (European Patent No. 3118356). This decision not only resolved issues of novelty and inventive step but
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