IFP Energies Nouvelles v. The Assistant Controller of Patents and Designs, CMA(PT) 20/2023 | IP Case Digest

Case number: CMA(PT) 20/2023
Court: Madras High Court
Date of judgment: 14 June 2024
Outcome: Allowed

Headnote

Elaborate written submissions were filed and none of the material contentions were considered. The grant of a US patent on the same application went unnoticed, and the comparison the Controller eventually drew between the invention and two cited documents came as a surprise the applicant had never been able to address.

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Disposition

Allowed.

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