JUDGMENT

Sanjeev Narula, J. (Oral)--Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, the Appellant, filed the Indian Patent Application No. 8360/DELNP/2010 on 24th November, 2010 for invention titled "System for Advanced Bi-directional Predictive Coding of Interlaced Video" [hereinafter, "subject invention"]. This application was stylised as a divisional application, stemming from the parent Indian Patent Application No. 487/DELNP/2010 dated 30th January, 2006 [hereinafter, "parent application"]. The subject invention met rejection from Assistant Controller of Patents and Designs on the ground of Sections 16(1), 16(3) and 3(k) of the Patents Act, 1970 vide order dated 28th November, 2019 [referred to as "impugned order"]. Aggrieved, Appellant has preferred the present appeal under Section 117A of the Patents Act.

Subject invention and the divisional application

2. The subject invention pertains to a video compression technique. It is a system of encoding and decoding a current direct-mode macroblock in a current interlaced bi-directionally predicted field, in order to reduce the bit rate for transmission. Traditional video compression methodologies tend to consume significant memory owing to th