Dung Deal: Delhi High Court Remands Cattle Manure Battery Patent

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The Delhi High Court has set aside a post-grant revocation of a patent covering a cattle manure-derived hard carbon process for sodium-ion batteries, finding that the Deputy Controller failed to apply the mandatory five-step inventive step test. The case raises sharp questions about procedural rigour in post-grant opposition proceedings under the Patents Act, 1970.

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