Académique Documents
Professionnel Documents
Culture Documents
process
By
Vikram Pratap Singh
Thakur
Agenda
• Patentability requirements (overview)
• Patent Process in India
• Online patent filing process in India
Patent
• What is a patent?
• Rights
➢ Make
➢ Use
➢ Sell
➢ Offer for sale
➢ Import
Patentability requirements
• Patentable subject matter
• Utility
• Novelty
• Non-obviousness
• Specification
Exclusion list
• Frivolous inventions and Inventions against Natural Laws
• Inventions contrary to Public Order or Morality or prejudicial
to Life or Environment
• Scientific Principle or Abstract Theory or Discovery
• New Form or New Property or New Use
• Mere Admixture
• Mere Arrangement or Re-arrangement of devices or
duplication
Novelty
• New
• Not part of prior art
• Single reference
Specification
• Description of the invention
➢ Enablement
➢ Best mode
Filing
• Contents of application (provisional or complete)
• Persons entitled to apply
• Place of application
• Types of application
• Priority date
• Documents
Contents of specifications
• Title (P)
• Abstract (P)
• Written Description (P)
• Drawings (where necessary)
• Sample or Model (if required by the examiner)
© Brain League IP Services Pvt. Ltd.
• Enablement and Best Mode
• Claims
• Deposit (Microorganisms)
Persons entitled to apply
• True and first inventor of the invention
• Assignee
• Legal representative
Place of application
Chennai The states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka , Kerala, Tamil Nadu and
the union territories of Pondicherry and Lakshadweep.
Publication
• Date of publication
• Open for public inspection
• Rights of patentee starts
• Early publication
• Circumstances when publication not done
Examination
• Request for examination
• Formal examination
➢ verifying the propriety and correctness of all
documents
➢ verifying the patentability
• First Examination Report (FER)
• Amendments
Grant
• Order for grant
• Fees
• Grant
• Publication
• Rights of patentees can be enforced
Publication of granted patents