This section discusses section by section of the Indian Patents Act, 1970 in detail in the laymen’s language for easy understanding purposes.
This blog shall not considered a study material or a law book for Indian Patents Act. It is just a brief for understanding purposes about the act and its sections in normal English.
Any person through an assignment or transmission of a patent becomes a share holder in a patent or a mortgagee, licensee, with any type of interest in a patent shall apply to the Controller for registration of his title, interest through a notice to the Controller The application for registration of title of any person…
The owners or co-owners of a patent shall exercise all powers of an owner to the patent with reference to the regulations of law over any movable property as per the agreement of share in the patent making assignments, licenses or any such deals pertaining to the patent.
In case of any grievance is presented to the appellate board by any person aggrieved to issue an order for making such changes by varying or deleting any entry in the register, for any of the following reasons, the Appellate board as it thinks fit may pass an order to the Controller on the same…
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…