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How do I answer a Section 3 objection?
Each clause needs different evidence. Using the wrong one wastes the reply.
You need a demonstrated technical effect.
The words per se qualify only computer programme. Business methods are excluded absolutely in India, so European and UK authority on as such does not transpose.
- Describe what improves inside the system: latency, memory, power, throughput, security, signal quality, reliability.
- Commercial improvements are not technical effects, whatever the claim format.
- Re-labelling a method as a system does not help; Indian decisions look at substance.
- The revised CRI Guidelines notified on 29 July 2025 set out a step-wise assessment with worked examples.
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