Patents

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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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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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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