India: A crutch for the limbless IPAB

Recently the Delhi High Court came up with a very unconventional order. It came in the context of Mylan Labs’s writ petition in Mylan Laboratories v Union Of India & Ors, asking for the stay of order of the deputy controller of patents in view of the non-functioning of the Intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB), due to its vacancies and lack of quorum and in the context of the high pendency of cases.