Srinivas S Devathi vs Union Of India
- Neutral2024:KHC:21420
Ratio decidendi
The rule this decision rests on
A writ petition seeking relief that depends on establishing disputed facts—such as whether a patent was fraudulently issued or an international search report was deliberately fabricated—is not maintainable in writ jurisdiction and is premature where the petitioner has not yet obtained the consent required by Section 86 of the Code of Civil Procedure to pursue proceedings against the foreign authority alleged to have committed the wrong.
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Judgment
As delivered
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IN THE HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA AT BENGALURU
DATED THIS THE 14TH DAY OF JUNE, 2024
BEFORE THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE C M JOSHI WRIT PETITION NO. 13823 OF 2023 (IPR) BETWEEN:
SRINIVAS S DEVATHI, S/O LATE D SATYANARAYANA, AGED ABOUT 47 YEARS, R/AT NO.63, 11TH 'B' CROSS, 3RD MAIN, PRASHANTHNAGAR, BENGALURU-560 079, INDIA. MOBILE NO.(91)-966-393-2293, EMAIL ID.projectearthling@srinivasdevathi.com ...PETITIONER (BY SRI SRINIVAS.S DEVATHI, PARTY- IN- PERSON)
AND:
UNION OF INDIA, MINISTRY OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS, Digitally LEGAL AND TREATIES DIVISION, signed by ROOM #901, AKBAR BHAVAN, NANDINI R CHANAKYAPURI, NEW DELHI-110 021. Location: PH: 91-11-24674143. High Court REP. BY MRS. UMA SEKHAR, ADDL. SECRETARY, of Karnataka ALSO REPRESENTING EXTERNAL AFFAIRS MINISTER, MR.S.JAISHANKAR. ...RESPONDENT (BY SMT. NAYANATARA.B.G, ADVOCATE FOR R1)
THIS WRIT PETITION IS FILED UNDER ARTICLES 226 AND 227 OF CONSTITUTION OF INDIA BY PETITIONER PARTY- IN- PERSON, PRAYING FOR MANAGING THE WEALTH FROM 62 SALE AGREEMENTS, SECURE MY FINGER PRINTS AND BIO- METRIC INFORMATION. TO ADDRESS MY LIVING EXPENSES. A) -2- NC: 2024:KHC:21420 WP No. 13823 of 2023
GIVEN THE VALUE OF 62 SALE AGREEMENTS, MY WEALTH ALLOCATION IN ANNEXURE-O AND MY WEALTH MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES OF EARTHLING FOUNDATION PUBLIC CHARITABLE TRUST AND EARTHLING FOUNDATION PRIVATE TRUST, I WILL BE USING MULTI-COMBINATION AS PASSWORDS FOR MY BANK VAULTS, MY ONLINE ACCOUNT ACCESS, DIGITAL ACCESS PLATFORMS, LEGAL DOCUMENTS VAULT, DATA WAREHOUSE OFFICES AND OTHER AND HENCE MY FINGER PRINTS ARE PRECIOUS AND VALUABLE. HENCE, RESPONDENT TO WORK WITH FINANCE MINISTRY AND ISSUE ME A GOODS AND SERVICES TAX, GST NUMBER WITHOUT ME HAVING TO SUBMIT AADHAR CARD, WHICH NEEDS ME TO GIVE MY FINGER PRINTS AND BIO-METRIC INFORMATION SECURITY UNTIL I EXECUTE THE 62 SALE AGREEMENTS AND ETC.
THIS WRIT PETITION HAVING BEEN HEARD AND RESERVED ON 07-06-2024 COMING ON FOR PRONOUNCEMENT OF ORDERS THIS DAY, THE COURT MADE THE FOLLOWING:
ORDER
The petitioner, party-in-person in this writ petition
has prayed as many as 32 prayers, among which, 16 are
interim prayers. These prayers include to direct the
respondent-Union of India to work with the Prime Minister
of India, Finance Minister of India, and other Departments
to register the 'Living Will' of the petitioner for its
registration in all the States and Union Territories since
he has bequeathed all his future assets in favour of the
Nation. The prayers include direction to the respondent to -3- NC: 2024:KHC:21420 WP No. 13823 of 2023
work with one Mr. Daren Tang, Director General of World
Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to introduce
Macro Governance Reform of 'New World Order', prepared
by the petitioner to all 193 Member Countries. The
prayers also include direction to the respondent to take
steps to execute Sale Agreements with 62 Countries in
respect of the invention/patent of the petitioner granted in
US Patent No.8910998 B1 as it would fetch the Indian
Government an income of 93 Trillion Earthlings (Dollars).
The prayers include not only in respect of the Patent of the
petitioner but several others which are outside the
purview of such claimed invention.
2. The petitioner party-in-person states that he
applied for Priority Patent with US Patent Office with
Patent No. 8910998 B1 for 'Systems and methods for
altering the colour, appearance or feel of a vehicle surface'
claiming that he had invented the same. He also filed an
application under the Patent Co-operation Treaty,
International Application No.PCT/US/2014/046619 dated -4- NC: 2024:KHC:21420 WP No. 13823 of 2023
15-07-2014 to the USPTO in the capacity of "International
Search Authority ISA". USPTO issued a fabricated
"International Search Report ISR" and it was transmitted
to the petitioner on 05-08-2015 thereby breaching
Articles 18(2) and 19(1) of Patent Co-operation Treaty.
Using the said PCT International Application, he filed 15
National and 02 Regional Stage applications for Patent
Protection of his invention covering total of 61 Non USA
Countries. It is alleged by the petitioner that the
fabricated ISR with fabricated Prior art has resulted in all
National and Regional Stage applications to go into
'pending-reject' office actions causing him to lose his
'patent rights' across 60 World Countries. Therefore, it was
alleged that the fraud committed by USPTO is very
deliberate and intentional with malicious intent and motive
to block his invention patent rights from across the World
Countries.
3. On the basis of such contentions, the petitioner
has sought as many as 32 prayers and directions to the -5- NC: 2024:KHC:21420 WP No. 13823 of 2023
respondent-Union of India and has produced voluminous
correspondence (in 04 volumes), documents to
demonstrate that he has made all his efforts to make his
claim. The petitioner has produced additional documents
after conclusion of the arguments.
4. On issuance of notice, respondent has appeared
through learned counsel Smt. Nayantara B.G.
5. The submissions by the writ petitioner-party-
in- person and Smt. Nayantara, the learned counsel for
respondent-Union of India were heard.
6. Before considering the maintainability or
otherwise of the petition concerning the prayers made, it
is necessary to note that the petitioner had filed similar
petition in W.P.No.4851/2023, which came to be rejected
on 06-06-2023, reserving liberty to the petitioner to
challenge the communication of the Central Government
dated 05-04-2023 before appropriate Legal Forum, if law
permits. Pursuant to the said order, the petitioner had -6- NC: 2024:KHC:21420 WP No. 13823 of 2023
filed W.P.No.12356/2023. It was filed seeking directions to
the respondent-Union of India to give 'consent letter of
Indian Central Government duly certified by Secretary to Indian
Central Government, to sue United States Patent and
Trademark Office, USPTO, and summon WIPO, World
Intellectual Property Organization, International Bureau to
assist the court with discovery and fact finding', to address CPC Section 86(1) applicable to them, such that I could initiate the
court proceeding in the trial court, at the earliest. This is in
accordance with documented proof submitted and explained in
Annexure- A, of 'Breach of Patent Co-operation Treaty Articles
18(2) and 19(1), committed by USPTO on 05/08/2015 in their
capacity of ISA, International Search Authority for PCT
International Application PCT/US2014/046619 which
corresponds to invention priority patent grant US 8,910,998
BI.' Noting the filing of the said writ petition, this Court by
order dated 07-11-2023, passed an order as below:
" xxx xxx xxx Unless, the said writ petition is disposed of
on merits and petitioner is able to procure the consent letter from the Indian Central Government, -7- NC: 2024:KHC:21420 WP No. 13823 of 2023
the present writ petition or any other proceedings would be maintainable.
Having regard to the statutory requirements, option is given to the petitioner, to keep the present writ petition pending till the disposal of WP No.12356/2023 or file a fresh writ petition after WP No.12356/2023 is disposed of on merits.
The petitioner opts to keep the present writ petition pending, till the disposal of WP No.12356/2023.
Accordingly, re-list this matter after disposal of WP No.12356/2023."
7. It is pertinent to note that this Court has found
that the rejection of the prayer to give consent under
Section 86 of CPC was rejected by the Union of India
without giving any reasons and by relying on several
judgments of the Supreme Court, allowed the said Writ
Petition No.12356/2023 to the limited extent that the
reasons for rejection should have been disclosed by it and
directed accordingly. Therefore, evidently, this Court had
indicated that the present petition is premature and only if
consent is given under Section 86 of CPC to sue USPTO
and others, considering the present prayers would arise. -8-
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8. Be that as it may, the question whether the
petitioner has US Patent No.8910998B1 and whether
International Search Report issued by International Search
Agency (which is US PTO itself under WIPO) is fabricated
and maliciously issued is to be established in the legal
proceedings that may be initiated by the petitioner.
Evidently, such proceeding has to be under the consent
that may be granted or otherwise under Section 86 of
CPC. Under these circumstances, the present petition is
totally premature and therefore, it would not be
maintainable at this stage.
9. It is also relevant to note that the prayers of
the petitioner which are 32 in number, are not only
pertaining to the invention claimed by the petitioner, but
they relate to the other fields like, bribery in the offices,
medical education, health, defence, etc. It is not known
how the petitioner is invoking Articles 226 and 227 of the
Constitution of India, unless he establish an inherent right
in himself to claim such reliefs. This was observed by this -9- NC: 2024:KHC:21420 WP No. 13823 of 2023
Court in the order passed in W.P.No.4851/2023 as well. It
is also pertinent to note that before the orders were
passed in W.P.No.4851/2023, he had filed O.S.No.40/2022
and O.S.No.41/2022 before City Civil Court, Bengaluru,
which were rejected by the trial Court and then the
petitioner had filed W.P.No.21782/2022 which was
disposed of by this court on 06-02-2023 with a direction to
the respondent to consider the request of the petitioner
under Section 86 of CPC. It is also clear that the prayers
made by the petitioner delve into the fabricated,
fraudulent and malicious act of the US PTO as ISA. Such
contentions require evidence and therefore, it cannot be
considered in a writ petition. The claim is well beyond the
writ jurisdiction since it requires evidence to be adduced
and ascertained.
10. For these reasons, the present writ petition is
not maintainable and therefore, deserves to be rejected. It
is evident that the petitioner has filed the present petition
with voluminous material which are in the form of the
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details of the invention, correspondence made with his
Attorneys, patent offices, and such other Agencies. The
petitioner has argued his case for hours together
consuming judicial time. Learned counsel appearing for
the respondent has submitted that the writ petition be
dismissed with exemplary costs.
11. Considering the fact that the petitioner has
argued the case in person, tried to convince the Court
about his inventions and other aspects; this Court do not
intend to impose any costs, at this juncture. Hence, the
following:
ORDER
(i) The writ petition is hereby dismissed.
(ii) The petitioner is cautioned that if
repeated frivolous writ petitions are filed, they
may call for imposition of costs.
(iii) Liberty is given to the petitioner to file the
writ petition with appropriate reliefs, in case he
obtains consent letter from respondent-Union
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of India, under Section 86 of CPC to sue the
USPTO and others in their capacity as ISA.
Sd/-
JUDGE
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