Cases
Every significant judgment covering the issue, the holding, where it sits in the Act, what it changed.
Browse all cases →The living record of Indian patent law.
Written and reviewed by Prof. Feroz Ali. A record of the law in practice, how the current doctrines stand and how they are shaped by case law.
What changed in the law.
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Case · updated
Agriboard International LLC v Deputy Controller of Patents and Designs
An inventive-step refusal must analyse the prior art, the invention and how it is obvious to the skilled person; the unreasoned fiberboard refusal was set aside.
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Bajaj Auto Ltd v TVS Motor Company Ltd
A patent in commercial use for nearly five years made out a prima facie case despite a pending revocation petition, and Bajaj obtained an interim injunction against TVS's FLAME.
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Bishwanath Prasad Radhey Shyam v Hindustan Metal Industries
An improvement must be more than a mere workshop improvement and involve an inventive step, so the patent on an obvious lathe device for holding utensils was revoked.
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Doctrine · updated
'Made Available to the Public'
Under section 64(1)(e), the accessibility of the matter will be crucial to determine whether it was made available to the public.
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Doctrine · updated
Anticipation by Prior Claiming
Under section 64(1)(a), it must be shown that the subject matter of the later claim forms the subject matter of a distinct claim in the cited specification.
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Doctrine · updated
Communication to Government
Under section 30, the communication of an invention to the government or to any person authorised by the government to investigate the invention or its merits will not amount to anticipation.
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Doctrines
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