Jurisdiction

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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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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