India : Process and Benefits : E-Filing Patent Application

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India : Process and Benefits : E-Filing Patent Application

Post by Intepat » Tue Jun 21, 2016 11:43 am

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 time-consuming. With the introduction of e-filing, the process became more user-friendly and relatively faster. Though first introduced in the year 2007 e-filing has been made compulsory as per the Patent (Amendment) Rules 2016. Therefore, the Indian Patent office has not been accepting manual filing for patents with effect from 16th May 2016 .

Today we delve into the process and benefits of e-filing patents in India.

E-filing of patent application: Process

E-filing of patent services was first introduced in India in the year 2007. This was revamped as the Comprehensive Online Patent Filing Services in the year 2012. All filings are in accordance with Schedule 1 of the Patents Rules, 2003.


1) The first step, like in trademark filing is to register at Online Filing of Patents platform. After registering, the user ID and password are generated.

2) The Comprehensive Online Patent Filing Services has a dual login facility. This means that an Applicant or Agent can login either using the User ID and password or the digital signature.

3) After logging in the website has a list of comprehensive steps that allow the Applicant to download client software on which he can create and sign the patent application.

4) After uploading the digitally signed patent application the (auto-calculated) payment must be made.

5) The status of the application can be checked.

6) The acknowledgement will generate after receipt of the payment.

This, put in a nutshell, is the process for e-filing of patent applications.


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