- The Central Government has to right to make rules through notification in the Official Gazette for carrying out the purposes of this act.
- Without any damage to the general foregoing powers of the Central Government, it may make rules for all or any of the following matters such as implementing changes (addition / removal) in:-
- the forms and the method or procedure in which any application for a patent along with its specifications or drawings and any other applications or documents may be filed with the patent office;
- the time period which the Controller may allow for filing a statement or an undertaking in respect of any applications, period within which the details of processing of applications may be filed and time period on the details to be furnished by the applicant upon cases of applications filed in any foreign country by the applicant to the Controller;
- the time period within which a reference to the deposit of materials shall be made in the specification;
- the time period within which a patent application shall not be published or made available for the public and the manner in which the application for publication shall be submitted to the patent office;
- the manner of making a request for examination and the time period within which examination shall be made;
- the manner and the period within which an application for grant of a patent or request for examination shall be made after revocation of secrecy directions;
- the time and manner within which any act may be done or any matter may be published under this act;
- fees and time for payment of any fee which may be payable to the patent office;
- matters in respect of which the examiner may make a report to the Controller;
- the manner and the time period within which the Controller may dispose off a representation made on opposition of a Patent (section 25);
- the time period within which the Controller shall dispose off an application made by residents to apply for patents in foreign countries (Section 39);
- the form, manner and time within which any notice shall be issued under this act;
- the provisions which may be added or inserted in order for restoration of a patent who seek protection after the patent had ceased;
- the establishment and and regulation of business of patent offices and its branches;
- the maintenance of register of patents and safeguards to be observed in maintaining the register and documents in any form (hardbound / electronic etc.,) and the matters to be entered in;
- the matters in which the Controller shall have the powers of a Civil Court;
- the time and manner within which the register and any other document open for inspection shall be inspected under this act;
- the qualifications of and the preparation of roll of scientific advisers for the purpose of section 115 (scientific advisers);
- the salaries, allowances, other conditions of service of officers and other employees and the manner in which they discharge their functions of the Appellate Board;
- the form of appeal, manner of verification and fee payable for the appeals to the Appellate Board (Section 117)
- the form and the manner in which the particulars are to be included in the appeal to the Appellate Board;
- the manner in which any compensation for the inventions acquired by the Government may be paid;
- the manner in which the register of patent agents shall be maintained and safeguarded (electronic form or floppies or diskettes) and the conduct of qualifying examination for patent agents, their practice & conduct, including taking disciplinary actions against misconduct of patent agents;
- the regulation of making, printing, publishing and selling indexes to and abridgement (changes / reduction / condensing) to specifications and other documents in the patent office and the inspection of the indexes and changes and other documents;
- any other matters which has to be or may be prescribed.
- The power to make rules shall be subject to the condition of the rules being made only after previous publication, however
- If the Central Government is convinced that it is practically not possible to comply with such previous publication, it shall dispense the same with compliance.