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This Indian delicacy came to the IPKat's attending today, from the Economic Times. The Delhi District Court has been asked to remain the preliminary circular for choosing participants for the Kaun Banega Crorepati-2 TV game show, hosted past times Amitabh Bachchan, past times iv Mumbai-based claimants who are asserting patent rights over the alternative procedure adopted past times Star India. That company, counterclaiming for the patent's cancellation, maintains that the claimants' patent was fraudulently obtained together with that it had inwards whatever resultant been anticipated past times before unusual patents. As the District Court has no jurisdiction to decide the validity of a patent, this affair has been referred to the Delhi High Court.

Amitabh Bachchan: hosting an infringing programme?

hopes to larn to a greater extent than most this litigation. He recalls Lord Justice Jacob, at this year's Fordham Conference, condemning IP grants that serve no useful industrial or commercial goal together with wonders whether this 1 -- which powerfulness good endure regarded equally unpatentable nether Article 52 of the European Patent Convention equally a mode of doing describe of piece of job organisation or playing a game -- would stand upwards up to his Lordship's critical scrutiny.

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