IP Case Digest · Patents

3M Innovative Properties Company v. The Assistant Controller of Patents and Designs, CMA(PT) 32/2023

Case number
CMA(PT) 32/2023
Date of judgment
Outcome
Remanded

Headnote

Section 3(k) covers totally different things, so a Controller refusing under it must narrow the reasoning down to the part he is applying. The hearing notice said the claims were a computer program and a computer implementable method; the order abandoned that objection and concluded the subject matter was mathematical or statistical, depriving the applicant of a fair opportunity to answer.

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Disposition

Remitted to the respondent for fresh consideration after a fair opportunity to the appellant.

Headnote by BRB Legal, written from the judgment: a summary for reference, not legal advice. Read the judgment itself before relying on it.