Udita Patro

Some major decisions passed by Indian Courts, where she was a part of the team representing the successful litigant, include:

• Merck Sharp & Dohme v Glenmark – first patent infringement case in India which was decreed in favour of the Plaintiff patentee after trial.
• Monsanto v Nuziveedu – Case before the Supreme Court of India involving patent eligibility under S. 3(j) of the Patents Act, 1970 (which excludes plants/animals and essentially biological processes from patentable subject matter).
• Eisai v Dr. Reddy’s – one of the first decisions which dealt with the genus-species patents issue.
• Pharmacyclics v UOI –  a decision where the Delhi High Court laid down comprehensive guidelines for the Patent Office to follow in post-grant opposition cases filed against patent applications.
• Christian Louboutin v Nakul Bajaj – first case where the Delhi High Court examined intermediary liability vis-à-vis trademark infringement.
• Louis Vuitton v Omi – in this decision, the Delhi High Court extensively dealt with principles relating to ‘contempt in the face of the Court’.
• Jatin Das v UOI – in this decision involving Moral Rights of an artist, the Court fashioned an innovative remedy balancing the rights of the artist and the opposing government undertaking which had torn down his sculpture.
• Cases enforcing the Personality Rights of Amitabh Bachchan and Anil Kapoor.

• 50 Up and Coming Future Legal Leaders, IBLJ, 2023
• IAM Patent 1000 for the years 2023, 2024

• Regularly contributes to the India chapter in ‘Copyright Throughout the World’ by Silke von Lewinski and ‘Getting the Deal Through – Copyright’.
• Co-authored a Chapter on ‘Copyright and Multimedia: Contemporary Issues in India’ in a Copyright Treatise – ‘Novel Dimensions of Copyright Law’, edited by Prof. (Dr.) S. Sivakumar and Prof. (Dr.) Lisa P. Lukose, published by Thomson Reuters, 2022.
• Regularly contributes to publications published in Asia Business Law Journal, MIP, WTR, etc. Some of the recent publications co-authored by her include:
  • ‘Bollywood buzzing over NFTs’ published in Asia Business Law Journal, January, 2023
  • ‘Rights in movie titles and characters through an Indian lens’ published by MIP Asia Focus, September, 2022
  • ‘Single-colour trademarks – Enforcement of Christian Louboutin’s red-sole trademark’ published in World Trademark Review (WTR), December, 2019, etc.