{"id":488,"date":"2014-12-22T15:47:33","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T10:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/?p=488"},"modified":"2016-09-28T15:53:24","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T10:23:24","slug":"indian-court-reads-wilfulness-into-section-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/indian-court-reads-wilfulness-into-section-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Court Reads &#8216;Wilfulness&#8217; into Section 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>In a breakthrough decision with significant implications for patent prosecution in India, an Indian court has read &#8220;wilfulness&#8221; into Section 8 of India&#8217;s Patents Act.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A Delhi High Court division bench judgment\u00a0brings a sigh of relief for many patentees as the court has taken a liberal view while interpreting Section 8 which is closer to the inequitable conduct defence used in the US. This also shows that India is a progressive country and not &#8216;anti-patent&#8217; as has been alleged by many lately, but supports the rights of the patentees as well.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0decision is indicative of the fact that the Indian judiciary is endeavouring to increase proficiency and\u00a0encouraging innovation by dissipating the incorrect accusation that India is anti-IP. It is noteworthy to mention that out of the 2,157 reported cases in the field of intellectual property over a span of 20 years, 1,433 decisions have been decided in favour of IP owners.<\/p>\n<p><em>Authored by Pravin Anand, Vaishali Mittal and D. Neha Reddy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This article was published in Asia IP November\/December 2014.<\/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>In a breakthrough decision with significant implications for patent prosecution in India, an Indian court has read &#8220;wilfulness&#8221; into Section 8 of India&#8217;s Patents Act.\u00a0 A Delhi High Court division bench judgment\u00a0brings a sigh of relief for many patentees as the court has taken a liberal view while interpreting Section 8 which is closer to [&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":[44,57,62],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488"}],"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=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":491,"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions\/491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}