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Section 107 in The Patents Act, 1970 [Entire Act]
The Patents Act, 1970
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation & Anr. vs Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Ltd. on 7 October, 2015
233. It is only when they have been "caught in the act",
as it were, that the infringer defendants, unable to dispute
the charge of infringement on facts, seek to question the
validity of the suit patent. While Section 64, undoubtedly,
allow them to do so, the challenge has to be credible, not
incredible. The defendants, in the present case, neither
launched any pre-grant nor any post-grant, opposition to IN
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33 Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation v Glenmark Pharmaceuticals, (2015) 63 PTC 257 (Del-DB)
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Section 49 in The Patents Act, 1970 [Entire Act]
Section 48 in The Patents Act, 1970 [Entire Act]
Biswanath Prasad Radhey Shyam vs Hindustan Metal Industries on 13 December, 1978
28. Mr. J. Sai Deepak, learned Senior Counsel for the respondent,
on the other hand, even while accepting that the impugned order may
not be as reasoned as such orders ordinarily ought to be, submits that
the learned Commercial Court could not be said to have been in error
in holding that the initial onus to establish that the suit patent IN'417
was an improvement over the earlier patent held by the appellant was
on the appellant. He submits that, once the appellant had, in its plaint
and in the complete specifications of the suit patents IN'417,
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specifically pleaded that it was an improvement over earlier prior arts,
the onus to prove that it was an improvement was on the appellant.
He relies, in this context, on the following passage from the judgment
of the Supreme Court in Bishwanath Prasad Radhey Shyam v
Hindustan Metal Industries20:
Aura Synergy India Ltd. & Anr. vs M/S New Age False Ceiling Co Pvt. Ltd. & ... on 10 February, 2016
The said decision has also been approved by the Id.
Division Bench vide judgment dated 18th November, 2016 in Aura
Synergy India Ltd. v New Age Faise Ceiling Co. Pvt. Ltd.12.