Patents Act

Navya Network Inc. v. Assistant Controller of Patents and Designs

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High Court of Judicature at Bombay | Commercial Division | 15 April 2026 Case Number: Commercial Miscellaneous Petition (L) No. 15327 of 2025 Bench: Hon’ble Mr. Justice Arif S. Doctor Citation: 2026:BHC-OS:9481 BACKGROUND The petitioner, Navya Network Inc., filed the present petition under Section 117A of the Patents Act, 1970, challenging the order dated 27th […]

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Divisional Patent Application in India: Section 16 Explained

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Divisional Patent Application in India Section 16, Unity of Invention and the Post- Boehringer and Syngenta Legal Landscape Among the more technically demanding areas of Indian patent prosecution, divisional applications occupy a position of outsized practical importance. The ability to divide a patent application to carve out one or more inventions embedded in a parent

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Non-Patentable Subject Matter in India: A Complete Guide to Section 3

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The grant of a patent is not an automatic entitlement that follows from novelty or inventive step alone. Before any invention can be examined on those standard criteria, it must first clear a foundational threshold: it must constitute a patentable subject matter under Indian law. The Patents Act, 1970 draws this threshold with deliberate precision

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