- Case number
- C.A.(COMM.IPD-PAT) 106/2022
- Court
- Delhi High Court
- Date of judgment
- Judge
- Sanjeev Narula
- Outcome
- Remanded
Headnote
Allowed and remanded for de novo consideration. A rejection recording only that "the inventive concept lies in algorithm steps, merely receiving encoded data" was held untenable. The court's objection was not to the choice of words but to the imprecise and generic methodology: where claims define a method of decoding encoded video by reference to steps and physical features such as a decoder and buffer, the Controller must identify what precisely is objectionable in that claim language. Patentability under section 3(k) is to be assessed for the presence of technical effect or technical contribution following Ferid Allani.
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