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2025 Supreme(Online)(Del) 7676

IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI
PRATHIBA M. SINGH, J
SEQUENOM INC – Appellant
Versus
THE CONTROLLER OF PATENTS – Respondent


Advocates:
For the Appellants/Petitioners: Mr. Debashish Banerjee, Mr. Vineet Rohilla, Ms. Vaishali Joshi, Mr. Ankush Verma
For the Respondents: Mr. Harish Vaidyanathan Shankar, CGSC, Mr. Mukul Singh, CGSC, Mr. Srish Kumar Mishra, Mr. Alexander Mathai Paikaday, Mr. Sagar Mehlawat, Advs.

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PRATHIBA M. SINGH, J.

1. This hearing has been done through hybrid mode.

2. The present appeals involve an interpretation of the exclusions from patentability in respect of diagnostic processes/methods under Section 3 (i) of the Patents Act, 1970 (hereinafter “the Act”).

3. These are two appeals filed under Section 117A of the Act, challenging the impugned order dated 12th December, 2019, (hereinafter “first impugned order”) in C.A.(COMM.IPD-PAT) 448/2022 and impugned order dated 20th January, 2020, (hereinafter “second impugned order”) in C.A.(COMM.IPD-PAT) 13/2022, passed by the Assistant Controller of Patents.

4. The Appellants had preferred the following two Patent Applications:

* No. 2476/DELNP/2011 (hereinafter “first patent application”)

* No. 3139/DELNP/2012 (hereinafter “second patent application”)

Both the first and second patent applications were in respect of inventions titled “Process and Compositions for Methylation-Based Enrichment of Fetal Nucleic Acid from a Mate

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