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DHC Holds Non-filing of Written Submissions by Applicant Cannot be Used to Delay Patent Application Processing

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Image with text reading “Keep Calm and Expect Delays” Last week, the Delhi High Court pronounced a decision rebuking a patent applicant for causing unnecessary delays in the patent application process by seeking repeated adjournments and not filing written submissions on time. In the case of FMC Corporation v.

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The Times They Are a-Changin’? A Look at the Revised Patent Prosecution Timelines in the Draft Patent Amendment Rules

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Image from here On August 23, the Draft Patent (Amendment) Rules, 2023 , were published in the Gazette of India, inviting public comments by September 22. Since then, the Rules have been extensively discussed within the IP community, especially the potential impact they may have on the patent opposition mechanism.

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Can an Abandoned Patent Application be Revived?

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An application for a patent is said to have been abandoned if it is no longer pending, which means that the application has hit a point where it can no longer be matured into a successfully registered patent. If the applicant fails to file a reply to the objections, the application is deemed to be abandoned.

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The Draft Patent (Amendment) Rules, 2023

Intepat

The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade, Ministry of Commerce and Industry on the 22nd August, 2023 published “The Draft Patents (Amendment), Rules, 2023” (Draft Rules). Patent applications and prosecution thereof is currently governed under the Patents Rules 2003 (2003 Rules).

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Before the Breakthrough: Does Prior Art Include Wrongfully Published Applications?

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Vandana Parvez vs The Controller of Patents , dealt with a withdrawn patent application that had been wrongfully published and then later cited as prior art for the same applicant’s subsequent patent application! Despite the withdrawal of the appellant’s patent application, it was wrongfully published.

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Controller of Patents has the power to condone delay in filing responses to Examination Report – Madras High Court.

Selvam & Selvam Blog

In a recent ruling dated April 4, 2024, the Madras High Court addressed a significant issue regarding the procedural timelines in patent filings. He filed a patent application on August 5, 2021. Consequently, the patent application was deemed abandoned under Section 21(1) of the Patents Act, 1970.

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High Court of Delhi extends statutory deadline for filing response to FER in European Union’s patent applications

LexBlog IP

Patents files folder. C)-IPD 6/2022, the Petitioner (European Union) filed two writ petitions against two orders passed by the Controller General of Patents for deemed abandonment of its patent applications. The first patent agent filed Indian Patent Application No. C)-IPD 5/2022 and W.P.(C)-IPD