IP Case Digest · Patents

Gala Industries, Inc. v. Controller of Patents and Designs, (T)CMA(PT) 56/2023

Case number
(T)CMA(PT) 56/2023
Date of judgment
Outcome
Set aside

Headnote

The Controller held that embossing is a general technique, but the claim was not to embossing as a technique; it was to the use of embossing to produce a single moulded screen and deflector in place of one bolted together. One cited document described the bolted arrangement the invention improved on and the other concerned cloth dryers. The explanations and written submissions went unanswered.

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Disposition

Allowed. Impugned order set aside and the matter to be revisited de novo.

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