NAVYA NETWORK INC vs ASSISTANT CONTROLLER OF PATENTS AND DESIGNS Advocate - Ashutosh Misra — COMMP/24/2026

Summary The Bombay High Court set aside the Patent Office's rejection of Navya Network Inc.'s "Medical Research Retrieval Engine" patent application and remanded it for reconsideration. The court found the rejection order suffered from procedural defects: (1) it lacked detailed reasoning comparing the claimed invention to prior art documents, failing to follow the established five-step inventive step test; (2) it introduced new grounds regarding "self-learned ontology" not communicated in the hearing notice, violating natural justice principles; and (3) it required fresh examination of whether the invention demonstrates technical effect under Section 3(k) of the Patents Act, as the current reasoning was insufficient. This case analysis is maintained by casestatus.in based on publicly available court records.