Patents Act : Reports of examiners to be confidential. Indian Bare Acts :

Patents Act,1970

Act No : 39

Section : Reports of examiners to be confidential.

144.Reports of examiners to be confidential. The reports of examiners to the Controller under this Act shall not be open to public inspection or be published by the Controller; and such reports shall not be liable to production or inspection in any legal proceeding unless the court certifies that the production or inspection is desirable in the interests of justice, and ought to be allowed.