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ARTICLE · 07 JANUARY 2020

Delhi High Court Holds Software Based Inventions Are Patentable On Demonstrating Technical Effect

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The Delhi High Court has reiterated that the computer-related inventions demonstrating ‘technical effect' or ‘technical contribution' ...

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The Delhi High Court has reiterated that the computer-related inventions demonstrating 'technical effect' or 'technical contribution' are patentable even though it may be based on a computer program.The judgment is issued in the case of Ferid Allani vs. Union of India & others (W. P. (C) 7/2014).

The background of the case is that Ferid Allani filed a patent application IN/PCT/2002/705/DEL seeking grant of a patent for his invention titled "a method and device for accessing information sources and services on the web".The as-filed claim 1 of the application sought protection for a method for accessing information sources and services on the Web, from a communication device connected through a communication network to the Internet network. The method comprises one or more steps of displaying a page of selection among a plurality of selection pages organized within a structure of tree menu and beforehand locally stored within said communication device, each page of

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