Month: February 2014
New Indian Patent Rules 2014 comes into effect w.e.f. Feb 28
New Patent Rules 2014 Last year shortly after the Patent Agent Exam in 2013, IPO notified the proposal for amendment of patent rules and had invited comments from the stakeholders and public. The new amendments mainly had to do with increment in fee structure and introduction of new forms. Today, Government of India notified that…
Another huge step into computerization – Indian Trademark Registry
We all know that Indian Trademark Office is religiously working into fully computerizing its day-to-day operations. More recently in the first week of February 2014, i.e., on 05/02/14, a notification came as a surprise announcing that several TM forms would be accessible through e-filing platform and we also wrote on it Indian trademark registry goes…
E-filing services – Indian Trademark Registry gets 90% digitized
It has been quite some time since our Indian Patent and Trademark Office had launched its online e-filing platform. Of note, the Copyright Board did also launch similar services in 2009, but it did not go well as planned and went completely dysfunctional in a few months of its launch. Most recently in November-December 2013,…