Saint-Gobain Glass France manufactures glass. The Company designs and produces a range of float, patterned, chrome, insulating, solar control, and laminated glass products. Saint-Gobain Glass France serves consumers worldwide.
In India the business of Saint-Gobain Glass France focuses on Patterned glass, Vehicle roof made of glass comprising localized zones of compressive stress, glass pane having a profiled joint and trim, trim and production method for the glass pane, and composition for grey silica-sodium calcic glass for producing glazing.
Saint-Gobain Glass France filed a patent application numbered 201917033971 that is titled DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PICKING UP, DEFORMING AND DEPOSITING A THIN GLASS PANE. The patent has been filed in the field of Polymer Technology. This Patent Application has been granted as Patent Number 352203. This invention relates to a device for picking up, shaping, and placing a thin glass pane, comprising a frame with an upper side and a lower side, which is suitable to be directed onto a glass pane with a thickness of less than 1 mm and which is provided with a plurality of picking up pins that are arranged substantially parallel to one another and whose end-directed onto the glass pane is equipped with a suction cup, wherein the picking up pins are movable along their direction of extension independent of one another in order to adapt the arrangement of the suction cups to an intended shape of the glass pane.
During the patent examination, the Patent Examiner raised objections under Section 3(d) of the Patents (Amended) Act, 2005 stating that certain Claims appear to be a mere use of a known process which neither results in a new product nor employ any new reactant.
As a response, the Applicant submitted that Section 3(d) is directed to prohibit patent of known machines or methods which are known per se. As it is clear from cited prior arts that none of the documents disclose all the features of the invention as claimed either individually or in combination. Hence, the subject matter as claimed stands novel and inventive.
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