This section discusses in detail about patents and its essentiality in the global business market.
Form 15 has to be submitted by the applicant / applicants / legal representative of a lapsed patent which got lapsed due to non payment of the renewal fees within the period prescribed or extended. This form however should be submitted within 18 months from the date of on which the patent got lapsed. In…
Form 16 has to be filed by the patent owner (assignor / mortgagor / licensor) when there is made a separate agreement on a patent between the patentee or the patent owner and other person who shall own share in / profits earned by a patent, by any way such as mortgage or licensing or other…
Form 17 has to be filed by any person who is willing to obtain a compulsory license, granted by the Controller in order to perform or use an invention patented by any person / entity. Conditions and Reasons based on which an Application for Compulsory License shall be filed: Can be filed only after expiry…
Form 18 has to be filed by an applicant or any person with interest on a patent, in order to get his patent application examined either ordinarily (usually between 10 to 48 months) or expressly (usually 3 -12 months) from the date of filing. If the request for examination is not filed within 48 months…
Form 18A has to be submitted upon cases when the examination for a patent application needs to be urged or completed faster. Expedited examination request shall be filed along with the request for publication or after the request for publication only. Shall be filed by applicants whose applications indicate India as the Competent Searching Authority…
Form 19 has to be filed by any person or the patentee in order to revoke a compulsory license granted to any person if the patent was not worked or is not available to public at reasonable price, within the territory of India for a period of two years after the grant of compulsory license….
Form 20 has to be filed when a licensee who got a patent compulsorily licensed through the powers of the Controller, on the basis of certain terms and conditions for payment of royalty or selling price of the product or any other terms as such; requesting the Controller to revise the terms and conditions of…
Form 21 has to be filed by a patentee or any person who is the legal representative of the patentee requesting the Controller to terminate any compulsory license so granted on his patent on any grounds or reasons with the undertaking that such situation will not occur and the compulsory license so granted shall be…
Form 22 has to be filed by any person who qualifies himself as a patent agent upon passing the Patent Agent Examination conducted by the Indian Patent Office to register himself as a Registered Patent Agent. Details to be entered and attached in the Form 22: Conduct Certificate testifying the Character of the applicant from…
Form 23 has to be filed by any person who wishes to restore his name in the register, who had already registered himself as a Patent Agent in the register but removed by the Controller on any reasons or activities done by a patent agent not acceptable under law under section 130 or rule 116…