As of 07 December 2015, The Office of the Controller General of Patents, Designs & Trade Marks (CGPDTM), India joins TMclass. With CGPDTM on-board, TMclass now contains data from 57 participating offices. TMclass helps users to search for and classify Goods and Services (terms) needed to apply for trade mark protection. Users can also translate a list of Goods…
Office of the Controller General of Patents, Design and Trademarks published a circular bearing number 1/2015 on 18/08/2015 regarding clarification towards filing of application for registration of Design under Designs Act, 2012 and has been made effective from the date of publication. The said circular is available on the official website of the Office of Controller General of…
Applicants for national or international IP protection are required to determine whether their creation is new or owned/claimed by someone else. To determine this, huge amounts of information must be searched. Four international classification systems facilitate and simplify IP searches. These classification systems organize a huge amount of information concerning inventions, trademarks, and industrial designs into indexed, manageable structures…
The Patent Office, India on January 13, 2015 has issued a Public Notice directing all Patentees and Licensees (whether exclusive or otherwise) to furnish statement regarding the working of the patented invention on commercial scale in India in FORM- 27 in accordance with the provisions contained in section 146 (2) of the Patents Act, 1970 read with Rule 131…
The Designs (Amendment) Rules, 2014 has been published by the Government of India, Ministry of Commerce and Industry (Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion) by notification in Part-II, Section 3, Sub-Section (i) of the Gazette of India, Extraordinary on December 30, 2014 and has been made effective from the date of publication. The said rules are available on the…
On the eve of New Year, Intellectual Property Office, India is initiating to provide e-learning resources on various aspects of Intellectual Property Rights. On this e-learning portal, Intellectual Property Office has uploaded useful information on various aspects of Intellectual Property Rights; web link for the same is- http://www.ipindia.nic.in/eLearning/eLearning.htm. This e-learning portal provides information about Intellectual Property Office, India along…
The government is preparing for a trademark battle over the handspun fabric that was made a centerpiece of India’s freedom struggle by Mahatma Gandhi against Germany’s Khadi Naturprodukte.
India’s patent office has conceded a key demand of the pharmaceutical industry, dropping a proposed clause that would have enforced a more stringent examination of patent applications. A clause in the draft rules, mandating the use of generic names of pharmaceutical substances to check whether discovery claims made in a drug patent application were already known or not, has…
In order to improve the efficiency of patent & Trademark filing mechanism, the Intellectual Property Office has revamped its payment gateway by adding more banks, which would be helpful for its applicants to pay fee online. Further, it has unveiled “IP EXPRESSIONS” – a Technical Magazine of Controllers General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks on 8th September 2014…
The know-how and technological details of the patents, which has already been expired or lapsed validity in the country, is being opened up for the small and medium enterprises to utilise them for their business growth. The patent office India is offering the details of the expired patents through its website, free of cost. The knowledge of the expired…
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