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To Grant or Not to Grant Interim Injunction- Conflicting decisions by co-ordinate Benches of same High Court in pharmaceutical patent infringement suits
By Vindhya. S. Mani
Two co-ordinate Single Judge Benches of the Delhi High Court have recently arrived at opposing conclusions as to whether to grant interim injunction or not in favour of the Plaintiffs/Patentee in a batch of patent infringement suits in relation to a pharmaceutical composition. Analysing the two decisions threadbare, the author states that the question as to what constitutes “Coverage” and “Disclosure” in the context of genus and species patent is still uncertain, and that the determination of the distinction between these two terms, which is the core of the instant patent infringement suits, will most likely be for most pharmaceutical product inventions. According to the author, even the issue as to what constitutes credible challenge to the validity of the suit patent to warrant denial of interim injunction, is very subjective. The author in this regard also highlights another recent decision of the Court which also hinges on genus vs. species patent disclosure and coverage, disclosures in Form 27 and admissions in corresponding foreign litigations…
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