IPR Amicus: May 2013

The 'Ratio decidendi' section of IPR Amicus, May 2013 summarises the decision of the US Supreme Court (Bowman v Monsanto) on patent exhaustion besides Indian cases on obviousness for patent and twin test of prior use and confusion in respect of trademarks. The ‘Articles’ section features a discussion on patent of addition. A US Trademark Trial and Appellate Board decision on use in commerce and efforts to register ‘endurace’ as trademark in the EU figure in the ‘News Nuggets’ section.