Siddhast Intellectual Property Innovations Pvt. Ltd. v. Controller General of Patents Designs and Trademark (Cgpdtm) and Anr.
Case brief
What is this about?
O.M.P.(MISC.)(COMM.) 211/2025 | High Court of Delhi | Decided 21.04.2025 | Justice Jyoti Singh | Siddhast Intellectual Property Innovations Pvt Ltd v. Controller General of Patents Designs and Trademark (CGPDTM) and Anr | Keywords: Section 29A Arbitration and Conciliation Act 1996; extension of mandate of Arbitral Tribunal; six-month consent extension from 21.04.2025; regularisation of period 18.03.2025 to 20.04.2025; Sole Arbitrator appointed via Arb. P. 45/2021 (11.01.2021) under Section 11(6); COVID-19 pandemic delay; earlier extensions dated 26.02.2024 (upto 26.08.2024) and 17.09.2024 (upto 17.03.2025); Questel SAS impleaded 03.06.2022; proceedings at cross-examination of Respondents' witnesses; patent database / Integrated Search Platform (ISP) contract dated 24.05.2013; petition allowed and disposed of.
What did the court decide?
Extension of the mandate of the learned Arbitrator by six months from 21.04.2025, with regularisation of the period between 18.03.2025 and 20.04.2025, a request to the Arbitrator to conclude proceedings expeditiously, and the petition allowed and disposed of in those terms.