On 6a March 2017, the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) revamped the rules for registering trademarks by notifying new Trade Mark Rules, 2017 suppressing the old rules instituted way back in 2002. These new rules are directed toward streamlining and simplifying the process of Trade Mark registration in India. We are summarizing the […]
By Kshitij Malhotra, Partner and Garima Rai, Senior Associate Introduction With the fast paced growth in technologies in today’s world, patents are considered as essential for corporations as well as individual inventors or applicants. It is known that the general purpose of a patent is to provide exclusive right to the patent owner for manufacturing […]
By Garima Rai, Senior Associate Over last few years, more and more Indian applicants are applying for patents outside India. This trend is shown by the increase in the number of patent applications filed by Indian nationals at the US Patent & Trademark Office[i], the nodal office granting patent rights in the US. The charts […]
By Vijeth Bhat, Patent Associate In the newly amended Patent Rules 2016, considerable emphasis was given to establishing an expedited examination regime. There were certain provisions regarding filing expedited or accelerated examination in which the application is supposed to be taken out of the normal queue and examined. Although these provisions have been directly proposed […]
By Kshitij Malhotra, Partner In July this year, the Office of Controller General of Patents, Designs & Trademarks or CGPDTM, the administrator of Indian IP Offices, issued its annual report for financial year 2017-2018[1] [2]. The report is considered by many as one of the authentic sources of information about developments of IP in the […]
By Chandan Kumar, Patent Associate and Moumita Roy, Associate The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade, Ministry of Commerce and Industry has introduced Patent (Amendment) Rules, 2019 effective from 18th September 2019. Prior to the implementation, the authority had published the draft rule for suggestions and objections of the stakeholders. The basic changes […]
First and Significant Step for India Towards Global Integration in field of Patent Examination By Kshitij Malhotra, Partner INTRODUCTION In October 2018, both the Indian and Japanese governments decided to start a bilateral Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) program on pilot basis. Pursuant to the signing of the agreement, last month the Union Cabinet of the […]
By Garima Rai, Sr. Associate & Rachna Budhiraja, Associate Feb 2016 Introduction Whether it is the print on a sari, a spoon on the breakfast table, a mixer in the kitchen, the flower vase by the window, the automobile, a toy, soap, a mobile phone, everything has a shape, a pattern, configuration which is appealing […]
By Himanshu Bhatt, Associate, GIP IndiaFeb 2016 With the year 2015 coming to a closure, GIP India undertook a study focused on identifying patent publication trends of various Japanese applicants at the Indian patent office between 01-Jan-15 to 31-Dec-15. The intention of the study was to find some insights into Japanese companies filing patents in […]
By Garima Rai, Sr. Associate, Global IP IndiaJan 2016 Introduction Intellectual Property Rights are emerging as an important strategy for business in today’s world. The possession of IP rights in the form of patents, trademarks, and designs has exponentially increased competitiveness of companies. IP rights can prove valuable for Start-Ups, sometimes defining their ultimate fate. […]