India's top court upholds Patents Act over competition law
By Freny Patel ( September 3, 2025, 00:28 GMT | Insight) -- India's top court has ended a jurisdictional dispute, stating that the Patents Act takes precedence over competition law. In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court of India dismissed the Competition Commission of India's appeal against a Delhi High Court order regarding an investigation into the patents of Ericsson and Monsanto. In a landmark ruling, India's top court has clarified the jurisdictional conflict between intellectual property and competition law, declaring that the country's antitrust watchdog cannot investigate the assertion of patent rights under the Patents Act....
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