The Calcutta High Court’s judgment, in ITC Limited v. The Controller General of Patents Designs and Trademarks (IPDPTA/13/2024) marked a crucial development in Indian patent law by overturning the rejection of ITC’s patent application (No. 685/KOL/2015) for “a device and method to generate and deliver a nicotine aerosol”. The case centered on Section 3(b) of […]
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Key Highlights of the Draft Patent (Amendment) Rules, 2025
On 18 July 2025, the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India, published the Draft Patent (Amendment) Rules, 2025 in the Official Gazette. These proposed amendments aim to operationalize the changes introduced by the Jan Vishwas (Amendment of Provisions) Act, 2023, which seeks to decriminalize […]