Swarup Kumar, Managing Partner of Kumar & Sardana Associates (KSA) was recently elected as the Deputy Secretary General (DSG) of FICPI, the International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys during the FICPI World Congress held in Cannes. He is the first ever Indian IP Attorney to make it to the FICPI Bureau since it was found...Read More

The Indian Patent Office (IPO) issued three notifications on December 26, 2022. The members of FICPI-India considered the content and the implications of such impromptu notices and were of the opinion that the said notices not only put undue burden on the applicants but also could compromise the quality of examination as well as granted patents....Read More

Indian patent practice and jurisprudence with respect to biological materials (including antibodies) is relatively new and thus not well-settled and/or uniform, unlike in the USA or Europe. In these circumstances, presenting a concrete picture re patenting of monoclonal antibodies in India is not feasible at this stage. Notwithstanding this constraint, this analysis presents various techno-legal...Read More

In pursuance of the detailed discussion held in a workshop during the ExCo meeting in Zurich, it was realised that the examination guidelines or patent manuals issued by various national IP Offices had quite divergent scope and implication. In fact, it was ascertained during such discussion that some Patent Offices did not issue any guidelines...Read More