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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

Most businesses that come to us have already been using their name for years. It is on the signboard, the invoices, the GST registration and the Instagram page, and nobody thought about it again until something forced the issue: a notice from another company’s lawyer, or an investor asking during due diligence whether the brand

Most businesses that come to us have already been using their name for years. It is on the signboard, the invoices, the GST registration and the Instagram page, and nobody thought about it again until something forced the issue: a notice from another company’s lawyer, or an investor asking during due diligence whether the brand

Most businesses that come to us have already been using their name for years. It is on the signboard, the invoices, the GST registration and the Instagram page, and nobody thought about it again until something forced the issue: a notice from another company’s lawyer, or an investor asking during due diligence whether the brand

Most businesses that come to us have already been using their name for years. It is on the signboard, the invoices, the GST registration and the Instagram page, and nobody thought about it again until something forced the issue: a notice from another company’s lawyer, or an investor asking during due diligence whether the brand

Most businesses that come to us have already been using their name for years. It is on the signboard, the invoices, the GST registration and the Instagram page, and nobody thought about it again until something forced the issue: a notice from another company’s lawyer, or an investor asking during due diligence whether the brand

Most businesses that come to us have already been using their name for years. It is on the signboard, the invoices, the GST registration and the Instagram page, and nobody thought about it again until something forced the issue: a notice from another company’s lawyer, or an investor asking during due diligence whether the brand