The Delhi High Court in Kroll Information Assurance, LLC v. Controller General of Patents, Designs & Trade Marks upheld refusal under Section 3(k) but set aside the Section 59 objection.
In the present case, the Court considered an appeal under Section 117A from a refusal of Indian Patent Application No. 8100/DELNP/2007 (by order dated 25 June 2019) titled “A System, Method and Apparatus to locate at least one type of person, via a peer-to-peer network.” The prosecution history included objections under Section 2(1)(j)/2(1)(ja), Section 10(4)(c), Section 3(b), and Section 3(k), with a hearing-stage objection to amendments under Section 59/Section 57; the Controller ultimately refused under Section 59, Section 2(1)(j), and Section 3(k).
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