The register shall be open at all convenient times for public inspection and certified copies shall be issued to any person who requests for upon paying the prescribed fee. The register shall be the first evidence for any matters to be entered as per this act. If the record is maintained in electronic form, the…
The Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trademarks appointed under the Trademarks Act, 1999 shall be the Controller of Patents also. The Central Government may appoint patent examiners and other officers with other designations as required. The officers shall work under and as per the directions of the Controller and perform duties from time to…
The office which executes under this law shall be known as the Patent Office. The Central Government through notification in the Gazette shall specify the name of the Patent Office. The Head Office shall be as decided by the Central Government and shall establish offices at other places as it thinks fit for facilitating the…
All employees of Patent office are incapable of holding any right or interest, directly or indirectly, in any patents issued by the Patent Office during the period for which they are designated in any patent offices except by the way of inheritance or legacy.
No employee in the Patent office shall, except when required and authorized in writing by the Controller or Central Government or the Appellate Board or the Court, Furnish any information on any matters being or has been dealt by the office prepare or give assistance in preparing the documents needed by the Patent office to…
The Controller upon any proceedings before him shall have the Powers of a Civil Court, with regard to the following matters namely: – to send summons and enforcing the attendance of any person, examine him on truth to require to present or produce any document before him to receive evidence on affidavits to issue commissions…
The Controller may make corrections in the amendment of applications for patents or Complete Specifications or any other documents related to patents in terms of clerical errors upon pursuance of such applications or in any other applications or the register as per the law. Such corrections may be made either by himself without any requests…
In the absence of directions from the Controller, evidence shall be given by affidavit and if the Controllers thinks it right, oral evidence shall be taken instead of or along with the evidence by an affidavit or may allow any party to be cross examined as per the affidavit.
The Controller may, before exercising adverse to an applicant; if within a time period the applicant files an application at least before 10 days of the expiry of the time limit, properly requesting to be heard, the Controller may hear him before exercising his discretionary powers.
When an opposition is filed and the applicant or patentee is applying for an extension of time, the Controller need not give any notice to or even hear the opposition party and no appeal shall prohibit the Controller from granting such extensions.