SpicyIP

JUNE 22, 2022

The Belgian Health Care Knowledge Centre (KCE) recently released an interesting report titled ‘Compulsory licensing for expensive medicines’. Ordinarily, patentees voluntarily decide whether or not and on what conditions to grant licenses to third parties. Failing which, a compulsory license can be issued. Natco Pharma Ltd.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 12, 2021

Ensuring Access to TB drugs: Is Compulsory License the Way? This is especially worrying since it is common knowledge that Indian patent law contains robust flexibilities to promote patient interest. Use of patent law levers to ensure accessibility to medicines. By Rahul Bajaj and Praharsh Gour. image from here.

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

provides a lesson into the importance of carefully drafting—and understanding—the scope of licensing terms, especially covenants not to sue. Background In 2005, AlexSam licensed its prepaid card patents to MasterCard in exchange for ongoing royalties based on the number of “Licensed Transactions.”

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

India’s National Innovation Foundation and Honeybee Network recognized her innovation which was later featured in several prominent media outlets – Outlook magazine in 2005 followed by a Discovery Channel feature and an NDTV story. Like Sawhney, Remya received an award from India’s then-President, Abdul Kalam.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Civil society organizations, academics, and intellectual property and public health experts dedicated to addressing pharmaceutical monopolies are among those voicing apprehensions about the potential impact of these proposed rules on essential safeguards within India’s patent system.

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Patently-O

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The decision is significant as it is the first by the Fifth Circuit to address the licensing of standards-essential patents and the meaning of “fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory” (FRAND) licensing terms, adding to the growing body of jurisprudence already issued by the Third, Ninth and Federal Circuits in this area.

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APRIL 7, 2024

Article 12, along with the recent amendments to the Patent Rules, restrict the obligation to disclose the “working” statement., This could make it harder to force companies to license patents if they are not being used to make affordable products in India. And further restricting policy levers such as compulsory licensing.

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