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* IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI + C.A.(COMM.IPD-PAT) 3/2021 AUDERTEC SOLUTIONS LLP ..... Appellant Through: Ms. Priya Adlakha, Mr. Bindra Rana, Ms. Rima Majumdar, Mr. Dhruv Mathur and Mr. Swaraj Singh Raghuwanshi, Advs.

Versus CONTROLLER GENERAL OF PATENTS, DESIGNS AND TRADE MARKS & ANR. ..... Respondents Through: Mr. Harish Vaidyanathan Shankar, CGSC, Mr. Srish Kumar Mishra, Mr. Sagar Mehlawat and Mr. Alexander Mathai Paikaday, Advs.

CORAM:

HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE C. HARI SHANKAR

J U D G M E N T

% 01.03.2024 C.A.(COMM.IPD-PAT) 3/2021

1. The appellant submitted Application No. 202011011938 dated 19 March 2020 for grant of a patent in respect of an invention titled “a method and system for detecting road anomalies” (hereinafter “the subject patent”). The application stands rejected by the Controller of Patents and Designs (“the Controller”) vide order dated 8 January 2021 passed under Section 15 of the Patents Act, 1970. The appellant is in appeal against the said order.

2. The impugned order rejects the application on the ground that Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed the claim in the application suffers from want of inventive step vis-a- vis prior art D-2. Though