India received 1,10,375 patent applications in 2024–25, a rise of nearly 20% in a single year. The country is now the sixth-largest filer of patent applications in the world. Yet the patent application procedure in India defeats a surprising number of applicants. Most of the damage is done before an examiner ever opens the file: […]

You have an invention, and you think it could sell beyond India. Filing separately in every country is slow and costly. PCT application filing lets you file one international application and keep your options open in 159 countries. About 275,900 such applications were filed worldwide in 2025, according to WIPO’s PCT Yearly Review 2026. But

In 2024–25, India received 1,10,375 patent applications. In the same year, 33,504 patents were granted. The patent granting procedure is what sits between those two numbers. Most guides describe it as a simple queue. It is not. It is a sequence of fixed deadlines, and one of the most important ones changed in 2024. A

Thousands of people search for design patent filing in India every month. There is one problem with the phrase: India has no design patent. What you actually file is an application to register a design under the Designs Act, 2000. The term “design patent” comes from the United States, and most Indian websites repeat it

Search for patent types in India and you will be told there are three: utility, design and plant. That answer is wrong. Those are American categories, and none of them appears in the Indian statute book. The confusion is costly. Inventors file the wrong form, miss a deadline that cannot be extended, or spend months

If you have searched for the difference between a utility patent vs design patent, you have probably found dozens of articles. Most of them describe American law. That is a problem, because neither term exists in the Indian statute book. India protects the way a product works through a patent. It protects the way a

In 1856, the first patent in India was granted for a punkah pulling machine, and the inventor had to walk his drawings into an office in Calcutta. Today, patent e filing lets you do the same job from your desk in a single sitting. Patent e filing means submitting your patent application to the Indian

Your drawings are ready. The form is filled in. Then you reach the box asking for a class number, and everything stops. That number comes from the Locarno Classification, the international system that sorts products into 32 groups for the purpose of design registration. Get it right and the application moves on. Get it wrong

A foreign filing license in India is written permission from the Controller to file a patent application abroad. Under Section 39 of the Patents Act, 1970, a person resident in India may not file outside India unless the same invention was first filed in India at least six weeks earlier, or the Controller has granted

Late national phase entry in India is possible. The deadline under Rule 20(4)(i) is 31 months from the earliest priority date, but since 15 March 2024 the Controller may condone a delay of up to six months on a request in Form 4 under the substituted Rule 138 — taking a national phase application to