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Dr. Dulal Kumar De v. Union of India & Ors.
Communication of an examination report by email is valid service; Section 149 of the Patents Act does not make postal communication mandatory, and an applicant who fails to respond cannot avoid abandonment on that ground.
AbandonmentEmail CommunicationPatent ProsecutionService of Examination ReportTrade MarksNeon Laboratories Ltd. v. Medical Technologies Ltd. & Ors.
Under Section 34 of the Trade Marks Act, 1999, actual continuous prior use of a mark in the market prevails over a rival's earlier-dated application for registration where the registrant remained inactive for a prolonged period; t…
Deceptive SimilarityNon-usePassing OffPrior User