The Patents Act 1970
It extends to the whole of India.
Person who can apply for patents:
1.
Is the first inventor of the invention
2.
Is any person being an assignee of the person who
claims to be the first invention
3.
Is any representative of any deceased person who
immediately, before his death was entitled to make such an application
Application has to be for one
invention only and has to be made in the prescribed form and filed in the
patent office.
When a provisional application is
made, a complete specification has to be filed within 12 months otherwise the
application is deemed to be abandoned.
Every International application
under the Patent Co-operation Treaty for a patent may be filed designating
India only if a corresponding application has also to be filed before the
Controller in India. The date of filing in both the places has to be same.
The controller can ask for any
details relating to the processing of the application of a patent outside
India:
·
No resident to apply for patent outside India without
prior permission
The controller has the power to
decide on matters of infringement if any.
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