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: […]
The government on Thursday 29th Oct 2015, proposed amendments to the rules under the Patents Act to streamline the application process, as part of its efforts to improve the ease of doing business in India. The Indian Patent Amendments (Amendment Rules), 2015 released by the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) on Thursday seeks to fast-track the patent application […]
Indian Patent Office has denied Germany’s Boehringer Ingelheim a patent on its key HIV drug, Nevirapine, for a version sold as Viramune XR (extended release). VIRAMUNE XR was approved in US on Mar 25, 2011 (100 mg and 400 mg, TABLET) and OB listed US patent will expire on Mar. 12, 2015. The application on the Nevirapine extended release formulation […]