The FDA has finally approved the little pink pill to help women boost their sex drive. The approval came on the 18th of August. Flibanserin with a dosage of 100mg developed by Sprout pharmaceuticals Inc. will be sold as Addyi. It is intended for the treatment of women diagnosed with hypoactive sexual desire disorder, HSDD....

The successful transition into the post TRIPS era led to the mushrooming of ideas into business models thus creating a whole lot of opportunities and also wealth. The term Business Methods can be defined as an abstract representation of an organization as it involves whole gamut of activities in a commercial or industrial enterprise relating...

It was on August 20, 2015, that Caprotec Bioanalytics, GmbH proclaimed issue of patent by United States Patent Office (No. US 9,034,789) entitled “Capture Compounds, Collections Thereof and Methods for Analyzing the Proteome and Complex Compositions” on ground-breaking Capture Compound Mass Spectrometry (CCMS) technology. Caprotec, founded in 2007 by serial entrepreneur Prof. Hubert Koester is...

India’s compulsory licensing policy, though TRIPS compliant, has come under scathing attack from many quarters of developed countries, mainly attributed to the pressure from big pharma lobbies based in those countries. India granted its first compulsory license in Mar 2012 to NATCO Pharma Ltd., a generic drug manufacturer, to produce Nexaver, an anticancer drug patented...

Apple is always ahead with new design patents. This time it’s for the exclusive Apple Watch Presentation tables. This includes two varieties of tables for displaying the Apple watches to the customers.

India successfully protected its traditional knowledge by stalling a leading UK-based laboratory’s move to patent a medicinal composition containing turmeric, pine bark and green tea for treating hair loss. The UK-based company – Pangaea Laboratories Limited – had filed the patent application in February, 2011. The Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL) of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) could manage to prove the European Patent Office (EPO) that turmeric, pine bark and green tea have been used since time immemorial as an effective treatment for hair loss in the indigenous systems like Ayurveda and Unani.

Yoga is an ancient Hindu philosophical, spiritual and physical practice which combines body movements and fixed postures with meditation, spiritual, and holistic exercises was developed nearly 5000 years ago in India. The Indian government has decided to shortlist around 1500 asanas creating a digital video database of the poses in an effort to thwart copyright...

Once again in the successful row of winning patent battles based on traditional knowledge, India has attained global attention as an Indian public sector laboratory from Bhavnagar has gained victory over an exceptional patent battle on a method of producing iodized salt against a huge multi-national company, Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL). Both in a humble...

Patient organizations gained a victory in their fight for access to medicines as Roche’s patent on Valganciclovir, an antiviral medication was revoked by the Chennai Patent Office. But this long drawn fight is not a clear victory since the patent term expired almost simultaneously. Background: Roche filed a patent application (959/MAS/1995) with the Indian Patent...

The Indian Patent Office in a verdict on July 1, 2015, for the second time, rejected Swiss drug maker Roche’s patent claims on Valganciclovir or Valcyte, used to treat an eye infection, which commonly affects patients suffering from acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). The decision was made mainly on grounds of “obviousness” and Sec 3(d)...