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In The North Face Apparel Corp v. Controller of Patents and Designs, the Madras High Court examined whether a garment tracking invention lacked patent inventive step because four…
In Deepak Nitrite Limited v. The Assistant Controller General of Patents and Designs, the Bombay High Court set aside a Section 15 refusal that rested on an unsourced…
The Indian Patent Office has taken a necessary first step by issuing Guidelines for the use of artificial intelligence in patent examination. The real test, however, lies in…
The Indian Intellectual Property Office published the Guidelines for the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Patent Examination Procedures on 7 August 2026. The Guidelines relate to the use…
NEC Corporation's appeal over the refusal of its video coding patent has been dismissed by the Delhi High Court, which confirmed that the invention lacks inventive step under…
Titan Company Limited took its rejected “Jewellery Assembly” application to the Madras High Court, testing whether a cost-saving gemstone arrangement was patent or design subject matter. Did the…
In the case of Qualyst Transporter Solutions LLC v. The Assistant Controller of Patents and Designs, the Court dealt with a familiar patent prosecution problem. When a refusal…
The Bombay High Court, in AIC246 AG & Co. KG v. The Patent Office of India, has set aside a patent rejection that bypassed the mandatory Section 14…
When the Bombay High Court dismissed a patent applicant's appeal after a Single Judge upheld the Controller's refusal, the applicant tried a second round before the Division Bench.…
The Delhi High Court has set aside the Controller of Patents' refusal of a Wirtgen GMBH patent application, finding that new objections introduced for the first time in…