IP Case Digest · Patents

Donaldson Company Inc. v. The Assistant Controller of Patents and Designs, AID/14/2022

Case number
AID/14/2022
Date of judgment
Judge
Ravi Krishan Kapur
Outcome
Remanded

Headnote

An order was set aside where its 'Scientific and Technical Analysis' turned out to be a replication of the cited documents, mechanically assembled from similar sounding components by mosaicing seven prior arts without any justification for combining them. Terrell is quoted, carrying Lowndes' Patent: it is not open to take a packet of prior documents and, by putting a puzzle together, produce what is said to be a disclosure.

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Disposition

Allowed. Impugned order set aside and the matter remanded, the findings on merits not binding on the Controller.

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