Interplay between Patents and Tradesecrets

Claudio De Simone & Ors. Vs. Acital Farmaceutica SRL. & Ors. (Delhi High Court);  CS(OS) 576/2019, IA No.15741/2019, 17.03.2020 FACTS In the present case, Plaintiff No. 1 was an inventor of a US patent formulation namely; De Simone Formulation. The said formulation is highly concentrated bacterial formulation beneficial for pharmaceutical and dietary indications. In the year 2015, the patent protection in US had expired and the Plaintiff No. 1 did not had any corresponding patent in the territory of India. It was claimed by the Plaintiff that the blending ratio and strain selection ...