{"id":412,"date":"2013-08-01T11:51:05","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T06:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/?p=412"},"modified":"2017-06-14T12:26:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T06:56:41","slug":"section-8-a-guide-to-foreign-filing-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/section-8-a-guide-to-foreign-filing-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Section 8: a guide to foreign filing in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Archana Shanker and Drishi Kaur discuss the often ambiguous requirements of section 8 of the Indian Patents Act.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The disclosure of foreign filing to the Indian Patent Office is a perpetual thorn, which inevitably pricks the bubble of patent enforcement in India. Challenging the validity of a patent on grounds such as section 8 of the Indian Patents Act may have seemed amateurish, but recent judgments have proved otherwise. The authorities&#8217; interpretations have certainly established section 8 as the convenient defence to dodge indictment in almost every contentious patent matter.<\/p>\n<p><em>This article was published in IP Focus 2013.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.managingip.com\/Article\/3243275\/Indias-section-8-a-guide-to-foreign-filing.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archana Shanker and Drishi Kaur discuss the often ambiguous requirements of section 8 of the Indian Patents Act. The disclosure of foreign filing to the Indian Patent Office is a perpetual thorn, which inevitably pricks the bubble of patent enforcement in India. Challenging the validity of a patent on grounds such as section 8 of [&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":[57,68],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412"}],"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=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2030,"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions\/2030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}