Lucent-Alcatel filed patent infringement suits against Microsoft's customers Dell and Gateway Computer Corp. for infringing on 15 patented technologies related to MP3 encoding and decoding.

Mashelkar Committee was set up in April 2005 to look into the TRIPs compatibility of the Patent Law. The focus was on the limitation of the grant of patents for pharmaceutical substances to new chemical entities or new medical entities involving one or more inventive steps only and exclusion of micro organisms from patenting.

Andrx Pharmaceuticals holds a Patent over the formulation used in the antidepressant Wellbutrin XL. Anthrax filed a suit against GlaxoSmithKline alleging that the formulation marketed by GlaxoSmithkline violated its patent.

The California based Collaboration Properties, Inc filed a lawsuit against Tanberg in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California alleging infringement of three patents.