Request for Examination under section 11B shall be made in Form 18 within 48 months from date of filing. If priority date is applicable in any manner through provisional filing or other means, then the 48 months shall be counted from the date of priority. If Secrecy Directions were imposed on a patent application; request…
Expedited examination shall be filed using Form 18A within the time only if, India has been indicated as the Competent International Searching Authority or elected as International Preliminary Examining Authority for the application. the applicant is a startup. An ordinary request for examination filed earlier shall be converted into an expedited examination request upon payment…
Applications published under Section 11A(2&5) shall be identified by the letter “A” along with the application number.
Should be made in Form 29.
After publication of an application, any person interested may inspect and obtain copies of the documents of the patent application such as the complete specification (along with provisional specification also), claims, drawings etc., upon payment of the respective fees in the appropriate office.
If the Controller is convinced that any claim in a Complete specification has been published in any other documents or specifications before filing of the patent application for the invention, the Controller shall communicate the same with objections to the applicant and allow the applicant a chance to amend the specification, If the applicant contests…
Any objection of the Controller contested or protested by the applicant shall be handled in the same manner as in Rule 28.
In case of any anticipation by a claim of other patent; the applicant shall be informed of the same and provided an opportunity to be heard. Though an applicant’s specification is in order for grant, if there is any objection pending that remains unattended by any person upon cases when anticipation was published on or after the…
If the applicant fails to remove or clarify the objections informed, when the anticipation was made on the same day or later as to the filing of the patent application; the Controller shall fix a date for hearing and keep the applicant informed on about the same schedule, 10 days in prior and the applicant shall…
When the Controller makes a reference directing to other specifications. He shall direct that reference to it shall be inserted to the applicant’s Complete Specification after the claims in the format as below: “Reference has been directed, in pursuance of section 18(2) of Patents Act, 1970 to the Specification filed in puruance of Application No.:______”