Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba v. Assistant Controller of Patents and Designs, C.A.(COMM.IPD-PAT) 210/2022

Case number

C.A.(COMM.IPD-PAT) 210/2022

Court

Delhi High Court

Date of judgment

10 January 2023

Judge

C. Hari Shankar

Outcome

Set aside

Headnote

The impugned decision recited what the cited documents disclosed and then concluded that section 2(1)(j) was not complied with. It was completely unreasoned. Reasons are the life and soul of every judicial or quasi judicial decision, and absent them the Court cannot know why the application was rejected.

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Disposition

Allowed. Order of refusal quashed and set aside.

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