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Moderator Erik Puknys, partner at
Finnegan in California, asked a panel of global experts today how they
see the trend of anti-anti-suit injunctions playing out in the future, and how
policy makers should respond.
Chitra Iyer, head of
IP and standards at Philips in India, said she doesn’t know if it’s an interesting
or a scary development.
“When we first heard
about it a few months back, it was scary enough, but now we see this trend of
forum shopping with implementers using it for their own advantage. The scary
part is you have a portfolio of 61,000 patents, and you spend a lot on maintaining
Counsel split on IPAB
closure
While in-house and private practice counsel see the closure
of India’s Intellectual Property Appellate Board as an opportunity for wider
reform of the country’s overburdened judicial system, they have different views
on how that reform should be achieved, several revealed to Managing IP this
week.
While some say that the technical expertise of IPAB members has
been useful for IP owners, others argue that the huge delays in appointing
experts and members to the board have made the hearing process too arduous.
Mohit Patwardhan, legal and IP counsel at pharma company ACG
Group in Mumbai, says that because the courts are already overburdened, the