The Delhi High Court has decided these issues extensively since 2015. Public interestAlthough public interest seldom defeats a permanent infringement claim, it is increasingly viewed as an important factor at the interim injunction stage. Pricing and public interest issues came up once again in Bristol-Myers Squibb and Ors v Mr JD Joshi and Anr on 29 June 2015. Absent any statutory presumption and given the scheme of the act, which enables patent validity challenges at several stages of the process, there is neither any presumption as to the patent’s validity, nor is the patent rendered immune to a validity challenge. For Indian courts, while determining the question of patent validity, they would be concerned primarily with the claims that have been granted in India.