Rulings
IPAB: Directs Registrar to expunge respondent’s ‘trademark’, as applicant ‘prior adopter and user’
SC: Bars Glenmark from manufacturing disputed diabetes drug, however, permits existing stock sale
SC: Extends stay on Delhi HC (DB) order & injunction in Merck - Glenmark drug-patent case
HC: Revises earlier order, Technical Member qualifications under Patent Act ‘constitutionally valid’
IPAB: MNCs can’t throttle Indian cos’ genuine trademark adoption; Rejects trans-border reputation claim
IPAB: Allows additional grounds & document filing in patent-revocation proceedings, despite no explicit provision
IPAB: IPAB empowered to implead parties, despite no specific provision in Geographical Indication Act
HC: Grants relief to patent applicant; ‘Misquoting’ application number not fatal
HC: Dismisses suit against MD’s patent registration in own name; Plaintiff’s ‘bonafides’ vital
HC: Applies principle of ‘comity’ & forum conviniens; Bifurcating order & challenging in separate HC impermissible
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