Patents

Indian Patent Law basics - Importance of filing the Statement of Working of Patents in India

If you ask any patent agent or attorney to explain the concept of patents in two words, they will tell you that it is an “exclusionary right”. As is true in law and life, with rights come duties and responsibilities.  So when you are given the right to exclude others from making your patent…


Indian Patent law basics – Patent Application procedure

Before all else, I would like to clarify that this article does not deal with how to get a patent in India. This article merely describes the procedure for making a patent application in India. The decision to provide a person with a patent is purely an administrative matter of the Indian Patent…


Indian Patent law basics - Disclosure requirements of Indian patent application's foreign counterparts

The Indian law for Patents, more particularly Section 8(1) of the Patents Act, 1970 (the “Act”), requires that when a person makes an application for patent in India, he must undertake to inform the Indian Patent Office regarding foreign applications which correspond to its Indian counterpart.…