YANGTZE MEMORY TECHNOLOGIE CO LTD vs UNION OF INDIA & ANR.

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$~ * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Reserved on: 06.11.2025 Date of decision: 03.02.2026 Date of uploading: 05.02.2026 + W.P.(C)-IPD 10/2025 YANGTZE MEMORY TECHNOLOGIE CO LTD .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Pradeep Koshti, Ms. Namitha Prasad,Mr. P Adityan andMr. Anit Kumar Singh (through vc) versus UNION OF INDIA & ANR. .....Respondents Through: Ms. Kangan Roda, Adv. % CORAM: HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE MANMEET PRITAM SINGH ARORA JUDGMENT MANMEET PRITAM SINGH ARORA, J W.P. (C)- IPD 10/2025 Factual Matrix 1. The Petitioner on 9th May 2021, filed Indian Patent Application No. 202127020980 [‘Parent Application’], claiming priority from PCT/CN2018/119908 dated 7th December 2018, along with a request for examination under Section 11B of the Indian Patents Act, 1970 [‘the Patents Act’], and corresponding rules of the Indian Patent Rules, 2003 [‘Patent Rules’]. Signature Not Verified Signed By:MOHIT Signing W.P.(C)-IPD 10/2025 Page 1 of 21 Date:05.02.2026 20:10 2. The bibliographic details of the Parent Application are as follows: 3. The Parent Application underwent examination, and Respondent No.2/Assistant Controller of Patents and Designs [‘Controller’], through its Mumbai office, issued a First Examination Report [‘FER’] on 23rd May 2022, where Controller has raised objection to the claims of the Parent Application under Section 10(5) of the Patents Act as containing plurality of inventions which are not linked by single inventive concept.The Petitioner filed its response to FER on 19th September 2022. The Petitioner responded to the objection by stating that the multiple independent claims are linked to a single inventive concept. 4. Following this, the Controller issued a hearing notice, maintaining objections from the FER and scheduled the hearing for 7th June 2024. 5. Th