Asia: Intellectual Property

Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) form the legal backbone for protecting creativity while ensuring that inventors, artists and writers retain control over their works which they have originally produced.

The fundamental objective of the Indian Copyright Act, 1957 ("Copyright Act") is to safeguard intellectual creativity by granting creators exclusive rights over the use and dissemination of their works, thereby protecting such works from unauthorized exploitation.

The new law focuses on addressing emerging types of unfair competition in the context of the digital economy and platform economy.

The viewpoint of being able to provide cheap drugs to a population which cannot afford it has started yet another debate in the pharma sector about how drug companies should price the life saving drugs in the developing world.

In an eagerly awaited decision, India's Controller of Patents has granted a licence to generics pharmaceutical manufacturer, Natco Pharma Ltd (Natco) to manufacture Bayer's patented anticancer drug 'Naxavar'.

A Senate Committee has recommended against passing amendments to the Patents Act that would allow gene patenting.

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In changing or revolutionizing the ways of approaching the creation, search and infringement detection of trademark, there is hand of one upcoming replacement or substitution of everything...

Limited successfully opposed the registration of the mark ‘Runaway the Label‘ for clothing, footwear and headgear (class 25) and online retail services (class 35).

When setting intellectual property strategy it pays to have a solid understanding of the prevailing business issues. In cleantech there are a number of diverse industries involved, with a trend towards convergence of technologies and sectors.

Software companies doing business in India have been put on notice by the Indian Income Tax Department following an unexpected outcome in the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (Microsoft Corporation v. Assistant Director of Income-tax, International Tax Division).

Recently, there has been an increase in so-called "scams" involving apparent IP-related companies sending misleading letters to applicants and owners of IP rights in an attempt to extract money from those persons. A number of official intellectual property organisations, including the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), have recognised this issue and distributed warnings against these scams.