Court Overturns Patent Refusal Due to Inadequate Obviousness Evaluation
In Kuraray Co. Ltd. and Mebiol Inc. v The Assistant Controller of Patents & Designs, The Patent Office, the Madras High Court ruled in September that the Assistant Controller of Patents & Designs’ (Controller) refusal order lacked merit due to insufficient reasoning.
Kuraray Co. Ltd. and Mebiol Inc. (appellants), filed a patent application for an invention titled, “film for...