28 April 2020PatentsRanjan Narula and Suvarna Pandey
Striding towards a better system
The Indian Patent Office has undergone tremendous change in the last five years with digitisation of record and streamlining its procedures. As an example, a new patent application can be filed electronically and all steps during the prosecution can be taken through the patent office portal.
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18 March 2013 Indian legal practitioners are free to file patent applications regardless of their educational background, following a ruling at the Madras High Court on Friday.
5 March 2014 Businesses in India will have to pay 8,000 rupees ($130) instead of 4,000 rupees to file a patent online, under a number of changes to patent fees.