Trademark Registration & the Pharmaceutical Industry: Lawyers Advice
Pharmaceutical Industries are one of the sensitive sector in the world. The major issue with these industries is protection of their rights and its usage. There are two sides to this. One, to secure them from being misused and the other, to get benefits out of their inventions. Now, it has become a general practice to get a Trademark on a drug either by its principal component or by the name of the disease for which it is used. For safeguarding the rights of these industries, Section 13 of the Trademarks Act, 1999 strictly prohibits the use of ‘Generic names’...
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