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Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan is a full-service law firm based in India. The firm has offices in 14 cities and has over 500 professionals specializing in areas such as corporate & commercial laws, dispute resolution, taxation and intellectual property.

Over the last three decades, we have worked with a variety of clients – start-ups, small & medium enterprises, large Indian corporates and multinational companies.

Our professionals have experience of working in both traditional sectors such as commodities, automobile, pharmaceuticals, petrochemicals and modern sectors such as e-commerce, big data, renewables.

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`10 June 2025

Discharge of a person in predicate offence is not a bar on investigation under PMLA

In this case[1], the Petitioner was implicated in offence of commission of offence of illicit manufacturing, marketing and transportation of a cough syrup under Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (‘NDPS Act’) through two complaints filed by the Narcotics Control Bureau (‘NCB’) before the Special NDPS Court, Jammu (‘Trial Court’). The Trial Court vide order dated 13 December 2024 discharged the Petitioner in both the complaints finding no prima facie evidence to link him to the alleged offences.

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`15 May 2025

Patents – Section 3(b) is the intent principle and not the effect or harm principle

The Calcutta High Court has set aside the rejection of grant of patent for an invention titled ‘A device and method for generating and delivery of a Nicotine Aerosol to a user’, where the invention provided a parallel design device that delivers nicotine to the users without burning or heating of tobacco and/or nicotine.

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`08 May 2025

NCLAT cannot condone delay in filing appeal beyond 15 days Introduction

Recently, the Supreme Court vide its Order dated 7 May 2025 passed in the case of Tata Steel Ltd. v. Raj Kumar Banerjee and Ors. in C.A. No. 408 of 2023, while allowing the appeal, reiterated that the NCLAT cannot condone any delay in filing an appeal beyond the period of 15 days as stipulated under the statute.

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