US Inventor’s Delayed Patent Examination Request Allowed Despite Indian Agent’s Error: Madras High Court

The Madras High Court has delivered an important judgment protecting the substantive rights of inventors under the Patents Act, 1970. The Court held that a patent application cannot be treated as abandoned merely due to an inadvertent procedural mistake committed by a patent agent, especially when there is no intention on the part of the inventor to give up the invention. Court and Judge The order was passed by Justice…