It is understood that patenting is an expensive and extensive process. Usually, while filing a patent, only the statutory (patent fees) filing fees and the professional fees are disclosed. However, after the filing, there are certain other fees that are to be paid to the Indian Patent Office (IPO). ...

The Indian Patent Office has introduced E-filing of patent services way back in 2007 in order to ease the process of filing. Manual filing required submission of hard copies of all the required documents to the appropriate authority. This usually proved to be a long complicated process that was very...

Creative India Innovative India’. This is the slogan with which the eagerly awaited National IPR Policy of India was unveiled by the DIPP on the 13th of May 2016. Before delving into the merits and demerits of the Policy let us take a look at a brief overview of the Policy itself. The rationale behi...

Patent Application can be filed by an inventor, alone or jointly with others, or his/their assignee or legal representative of any deceased inventor or his assignee. Application is required to be filed according to the territorial limits where the applicant or the first mentioned applicant in case o...