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Benefits for demonstrated itself to be priceless in all
faculties within the socio-economic areas within the world. It has picked
up colossal ubiquity within the later past. It is what propels individuals to
make and enhance. Things which are represented by Intellectual property
Benefits for a Law Student?
laws are manifestations of the intellect. In this article, I have talked about
5 Intellectual Property Rights cases in India and Latest IPR cases in India
beneath Patent Law, Copyright Law, and Trademarks Law. These IPR
landmark cases have brought No,new
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changes in the field.

C A S E 1 : B AY E R C O R P O R AT I O N V. UNION
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This landmark judgment is the first-ever IPR cases in India dealing with
granting of a compulsory license under an application made under Section
84 of the Patents Act, 1970. The issues involved in the case are:

Have the requirements under Section 84(1) been satisfied for

granting a compulsory license?

Whether supplies by infringers of a patented drug are to be

considered/taken into account to determine the satisfaction of a
reasonable requirement test?

In a very noteworthy advancement, the Delhi High Court held that ‘export’
of a patented invention for exploratory purposes is additionally secured
beneath Segment 107A of the Licenses Act, 1970 (India’s Bolar exception)
and in this way does not sum to obvious encroachment. It appropriately
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 permitted Natco to trade Bayer’s protected sedate ‘Sorafenib Tosylate’
(for which it was allowed an obligatory permit in 2012) to China for the
reason of conducting improvement/ clinical ponders and trials. Be that as
it may, two months afterwards, the arrangement was retained by a
Division Seat which inquired Natco to record an isolated application
looking for authorization for trading the sedate for exploratory purposes
and watched that it would be allowed to trade as it were a constrained
amount of the drug.

C A S E 2 : T H E C O C A - C O L A C O M PA N Y V.
B I S L E R I I N T E R N AT I O N A L P V T. LT D. A N D
ORS
This IPR case is also known as the ‘Maaza War’ case as decided by the Delhi
Court. The issues raised in the court were:

Does the Delhi High Court have jurisdiction in the present case?

Is there any infringement of the trademark passing off?

Is the plaintiff entitled to get a permanent injunction?

HELD:

It was held that the Court had the purview to choose the case if the risk of
encroachment exists. It was pointed out that a deliberate use of the
trademark other than coordinate or circuitous utilization of the trademark
was adequate to donate ward to the court to choose on the issue. The
court held that it might be a well-settled position of law that sending out
items from a nation is to be considered as a deal inside the nation where
from the merchandise are traded, and it sums to the encroachment of the
trademark. Also, “The Court granted an interim injunction against the
defendant from using the mark in India as well as in the export market to
prevent the plaintiff from irreparable loss and injury and quashed the
appeal by the defendant”.

C A S E 3 : D.C C O M I C S V. T O W L E
This case is an interesting read when it comes to Copyright law.

Summary of Judgement:
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 The best address for thought is whether BATMOBILE is entitled to
copyright security. The Court of Request depended on several authentic
choices in choosing this case. The court held that copyright assurance
amplifies not as it were to unique work as an entire but moreover to
“sufficiently distinctive” components, like comic book characters,
contained inside the work Although comedian book characters are not
recorded within the Copyright Act, courts have long held that, as
recognized from simply “literary” characters, comic book characters, which
have “physical as well as conceptual qualities”, are copyrightable. The
court depended on the judgment in Hachiki’s case where it was held that
car characters could be copyrightable. Additionally, it has been held that
copyright security can apply for a character indeed in case the character’s
appearance changes over time.

HELD: It was found that “Towle’s replicas infringed upon DC’s rights hence
the Court also upheld the District Court’s refusal to allow Towle to assert
a laches defence on DC’s trademark claims because the infringement was
found to be willful.

C A S E 4 : D I A M O N D V. C H A K R A B A R T Y
ISSUE: whether the respondent’s micro-organism plainly as a patentable
subject matter?

HELD: Area 101 of Title 35 U.S.C. gives for the issuance of an obvious to
an individual who concocts or finds “any” modern and valuable
“manufacture” or “composition of matter.” The court held that a live,
human-made micro-organism might be a patentable subject matter
beneath Segment 101 which the respondent’s microorganism constituted
a “manufacture” or “composition of matter beneath the statute. The court
opined that the life form was an item of human resourcefulness “having a
particular title, character, and utilisation. Moreover, the Court rejected
the appellant’s contention by holding that the obvious assurance managed
beneath the Plant Obvious Act, 1930 and Plant Assortment Assurance Act,
1970 was not the proof of the Congress’ intention to prohibit living things
from being protected. The court pointed out that Congress did not
anticipate hereditary innovation and didn't make it non-patentable unless
explicitly given. The Court held that the dialect of the Act was wide
enough to grasp the respondent’s invention.

CASE 5: PAT E L FIELD-MARSHAL

A G E N C I E S LT D. V. P M D I E S E L S LT D. &
ORS
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 In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court conclusively settled a
significant issue that whether, upon the institution of a suit for
infringement under the Trademarks Act, the remedies for rectification of a
trademark under Sections 47 and 57 (before IPAB) are still available to the
litigant, in case the relevant litigant has abandoned the plea of validity.
The Supreme Court took note of the conflicting decisions of the various
High Courts and found that where the court has not taken up the question
of validity, the statutory authority has the power to decide a rectification
claim by the litigant. However, in a case where the court comes to a prima
facie conclusion on validity, the only remedy available is an appeal.

CONCLUSION

The law relating to Intellectual property is continually advancing all

around the world. Being a generally unused concept, there are numerous
ranges which still require creating and security of the laws. All the above-
mentioned case laws have a wide effect on society and all these IPR
Infringement cases in India have brought approximately breakthroughs in
IPR case laws in India.

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