The Court of Appeal in Singapore has recently ruled that Element Six’s patent concerning lab grown diamond production, a De Beers company that has sued Singapore-based IIa Technologies for patent infringement in 2016, is “highly technical,” “not sufficiently clear” and “therefore unenforceable,” according to IDEX Online.
According to the court, “The patent for manufacturing synthetic diamonds is not sufficiently clear and complete” and even a skilled person would not understand whether or not they had infringed it.
In a LinkedIn post, IIa spokesperson Priyanka Joshi said that the company “defended its rights to commercialize its proprietary, trade secret process for manufacturing lab grown diamonds using CVD technology, and succeeded”. Element Six described the ruling as a “very surprising outcome”.
