Bombay HC: Complete Responses must for Patent Examination Reports
In the case of Sonalkumar Sureshrao Salunkhe & Ors. v The Assistant Controller of Patents, the Bombay High Court underscored the importance of diligently addressing all objections in the First Examination Report (FER) sufficiently, to avoid the risk of a patent application being deemed ‘abandoned’.
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Asserting Patent Infringement with the help of Doctrine of Equivalence
The overarching issue in SNPC Machines Private Limited & Ors. v. Mr. Vishal Choudhary revolves around the application of the doctrine of equivalents to determine patent infringement, focusing on whether functional similarities between two competing brick-making machines constitute a violation of patent rights, despite differences in their...