Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) is a work-sharing program that accelerates the examination of a patent application in a country’s patent office (the Office of Later Examination, or OLE) by relying on the search and examination results from another country’s patent office (the Office of Earlier Examination, or OEE). On 18th January 2025, the Intellectual Property […]
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India- High Court remands matter back to the Patent Office owing to lacunae in assessment of inventive step
The Madras High Court, in a ruling concerning an appeal filed by Hendrickson USA (producers of heavy-duty suspension systems), remanded their patent application for an invention entitled the “Axle Mount for Heavy-Duty Vehicle Brake System Components”, back to the Patent Office. The Court determined that the Patent Office had not sufficiently evaluated the “technical advancement” […]