The Hindu Business Line : SC appoints new technical member fo...

The reason for Novartis’ concern was that the earlier technical member appointed to the IPAB, Mr S. Chandrasekaran, was the former Patent Controller under whom Novartis’ patent on Glivec had been rejected in the first place, in January 2006.

The new technical member Dr Chakraborty is Deputy Controller of Patents and Designs at the Kolkata Patent Office, and his name was selected from a list of 20 patent attorneys and 22 patent controllers that the Centre submitted to the apex court, a legal source handling the case told Business Line.

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