The Calcutta High Court has set aside the rejection of grant of patent for an invention titled ‘A device and method for generating and delivery of a Nicotine Aerosol to a user’, where the invention provided a parallel design device that delivers nicotine to the users without burning or heating of tobacco and/or nicotine.

Recently, the Supreme Court vide its Order dated 7 May 2025 passed in the case of Tata Steel Ltd. v. Raj Kumar Banerjee and Ors. in C.A. No. 408 of 2023, while allowing the appeal, reiterated that the NCLAT cannot condone any delay in filing an appeal beyond the period of 15 days as stipulated under the statute.

In a dispute involving intersection of copyright and design laws, the Supreme Court of India has formulated a two-pronged approach to solve the conundrum caused by Section 15(2) of the Copyright Act, 1957, to ascertain whether a work is qualified to be protected by the Designs Act, 2000.