{"id":305,"date":"2010-12-17T06:57:42","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T06:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/?p=305"},"modified":"2016-09-27T18:46:48","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T18:46:48","slug":"amending-patents-in-india-the-dupont-and-agc-flat-glass-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/amending-patents-in-india-the-dupont-and-agc-flat-glass-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Amending Patents in India: The DuPont and AGC Flat Glass Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Pravin Anand and Abhilasha Nautiyal look at how Indian common law is allowing rights-holders to amend their patent claims.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A complete specification under the Patents Act, 1970 in\u00adcludes description of the invention, best method of perfor\u00admance, abstract and claims of the invention. A specification may need amendment in order to clarify or elaborate its contents. In fact, amendment of the specification can be a life-saver for the patentee, who can avoid revocation of the patent by seeking amendment of the specification.<\/p>\n<p><em>This article was published in Asia IP November\/December 2010.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>To continue reading, please contact us at <a href=\"mailto:email@anandandanand.com\">email@anandandanand.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pravin Anand and Abhilasha Nautiyal look at how Indian common law is allowing rights-holders to amend their patent claims. A complete specification under the Patents Act, 1970 in\u00adcludes description of the invention, best method of perfor\u00admance, abstract and claims of the invention. A specification may need amendment in order to clarify or elaborate its contents. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[123,57],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312,"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions\/312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}