Patent granted in India to Amazon Technologies Inc.
Patent number 370152 has been granted to Amazon Technologies Inc, which is titled ‘variants of files in a file system’. The primary independent claim of this patent states a method for assessing data stored in a file system in at least one computing device, maintained by a processor, for various users wherein each of such file systems include various files and one folder. During the patent prosecution, the patent examiner objected to this patent under section 3(k) of the Indian Patents Act. The patent applicant responded to this objection by stating the latest CRI guidelines published by IPO on June 30, 2017 wherein it was stated that to decide the patent eligibility the invention as a whole has to be considered. This patent falls under the category of Computer Science. Overall, this patent covers the variants of files in a file system in at least one computing device, maintained by a processor, for various users wherein each of such file systems include various files and one folder.
