Indian Inventor Secures Body-Powered Medical Device Patent After Long Legal Fight
What Happened
The Indian Patent Office has approved a patent for scientist Dr. Tarkeshwar Chandrakant Patil for“An Apparatus and a Method for In-Vivo Power Generation”, following a September 8 Bombay High Court ruling in his long-running dispute with IIT Bombay. The court held that a 2017 assignment transferred the invention’s worldwide rights to Patil. The technology is intended to generate electricity inside the human body to keep implanted medical devices powered. The reported design uses glucose in cerebrospinal fluid to produce fuel for a nanoscale biofuel cell.
Key Takeaways
The patent gives Patil ownership protection in India for technology aimed at powering medical implants from within the body, following a patent dispute that stretched for about 13 years.