The Plaintiff had filed two suits for infringement of their essential DVD video player patent. The component patent in the subject matter of both the suits is the Channel (De)-coding technology used for DVD Video Playback function in a DVD video player. It is claimed that the Plaintiff is the registered proprietor for “Decoding Device for converting a Modulated Signal to a series of M-Bit Information Words”. The invention concerns ‘channel modulation’ which involves a coding step that is performed directly before the storage of the data. Continue reading “Delhi High Court sets interesting precedent to still nascent domain of SEP & FRAND in India”
Category: section 3(k)
Revised Guidelines for Computer Related Inventions and Patentability under section 3(k) of The Patents Act of India
The Indian Patent Office (IPO) has recently released another set of guidelines (‘Revised Guidelines’) on how to deal with section 3(k) of the Patents Act, 1970 (as amended) (‘Act’) of India particularly clarifying examination of Computer Related Inventions (‘CRIs’) thereby overriding the previous guidelines published in February 2016, (‘Previous Guidelines’). Continue reading “Revised Guidelines for Computer Related Inventions and Patentability under section 3(k) of The Patents Act of India”
Revised Guidelines for Examination of Computer-related Inventions (CRIs) published
The Indian Patent Office on 30 June 2017 have again issued revised guidelines for examination of Computer Related Inventions [CRIs]. Continue reading “Revised Guidelines for Examination of Computer-related Inventions (CRIs) published”
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