https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=295279 The Patents (Amendment) Act, 2005 created a revised opposition and appellate structure, but the amended appellate provisions and transfer mechanism were not yet in force when the appeals were filed. During that interregnum, the unamended Patents Act continued to govern appeals from rejection of pre-grant opposition, so the High Court remained the proper appellate forum. The later regime could not remove a remedy already available at the time of institution, and the transfer provision did not authorise routing pre-grant matters to the Appellate Board, which had no jurisdiction over them. en-us Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0530 Thu, 27 May 2021 11:07:02 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=295279 The Patents (Amendment) Act, 2005 created a revised opposition and appellate structure, but the amended appellate provisions and transfer mechanism were not yet in force when the appeals were filed. During that interregnum, the unamended Patents Act continued to govern appeals from rejection of pre-grant opposition, so the High Court remained the proper appellate forum. The later regime could not remove a remedy already available at the time of institution, and the transfer provision did not authorise routing pre-grant matters to the Appellate Board, which had no jurisdiction over them. Case-Laws Indian Laws Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=295279