{"id":989409,"date":"2026-02-03T07:26:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T01:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=989409"},"modified":"2026-02-03T07:37:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T02:07:29","slug":"sc-to-rule-on-competition-bodys-power-to-probe-patent-linked-disputes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/03\/sc-to-rule-on-competition-bodys-power-to-probe-patent-linked-disputes\/","title":{"rendered":"SC to rule on competition body&#8217;s power to probe patent-linked disputes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: While staying portions of a ruling of the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT), the Supreme Court on Monday said it will examine whether the Competition Commission of India (CCI) has the authority to look into allegations of anti-competitive conduct arising from the exercise of patent rights. <\/p>\n<p>A bench of Justices J B Pardiwala and Vijay Bishnoi stayed certain parts of the NCLAT&#8217;s findings that the Competition Act, 2002 has no application where claims of abuse of dominance are rooted in the use of patent rights and that such disputes fall solely within the framework of the Patents Act, 1970.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: While staying portions of a ruling of the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT), the Supreme Court on Monday said it will examine whether the Competition Commission of India (CCI) has the authority to look into allegations of anti-competitive conduct arising from the exercise of patent rights. A bench of Justices J B Pardiwala and Vijay Bishnoi stayed certain parts of the NCLAT&#8217;s findings that the Competition Act, 2002 has no application where claims of abuse of dominance are rooted in the use of patent rights and that such disputes fall solely within the framework of the Patents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-989409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=989409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}