In a press release dated May 6th 2016, NASA has released 56 formerly patent technologies into the public domain, making its government developed technologies freely available for unrestricted commercial use. These technologies were developed to advance NASA missions but may have non-aerospace applications and be used by commercial space ventures and other companies free of charge, eliminating the time, expense […]
India has decided against giving the compulsory licence for Anglo-Swedish drugmaker AstraZeneca’s key antidiabetes compound Saxagliptin sought by Hyderabad-based Lee Pharma. The Controller of Patents office rejected the application on the grounds that substitutes to the drug are readily available in the market and Lee Pharma’s claim that requirements of public with respect to the patented invention are not being […]
Indian Patent office in an Order Dated: 31/12/2015, has streamlined numbering system of Patent applications and also request for examination filed. This numbering system will be implemented from 1st Jan 2016. According to the new numbering system the patent applications shall have 12 characters length with format YYYYJTNNNNNN, where YYYY denotes year of filing, J denotes jurisdiction (1: Delhi 2: […]