https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=782566 NCLAT considered whether the Competition Commission could examine licensing and exploitation issues relating to a patented pharmaceutical product. It treated disputes arising from the exercise of patent rights, including the reasonableness of licensing conditions, as governed by the special regime of the Patents Act, 1970. The Tribunal also relied on Section 3(5) of the Competition Act, 2002, which protects reasonable conditions necessary to protect patent rights, and noted that the patent had expired and the subject matter had entered the public domain. On that basis, it found the patent-law framework prevailed over the general competition-law framework and that the Commission lacked jurisdiction on the facts presented. en-us Thu, 30 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 02 Dec 2025 08:35:06 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=782566 NCLAT considered whether the Competition Commission could examine licensing and exploitation issues relating to a patented pharmaceutical product. It treated disputes arising from the exercise of patent rights, including the reasonableness of licensing conditions, as governed by the special regime of the Patents Act, 1970. The Tribunal also relied on Section 3(5) of the Competition Act, 2002, which protects reasonable conditions necessary to protect patent rights, and noted that the patent had expired and the subject matter had entered the public domain. On that basis, it found the patent-law framework prevailed over the general competition-law framework and that the Commission lacked jurisdiction on the facts presented. Case-Laws Law of Competition Thu, 30 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=782566