The Indian Patent and Trademark Office (IPTO) today notified the 3rd draft patent amendment rules, 2010.
The notification can be seen here (warning: file size is large ~5MB).
A few major highlights from the draft rules are:
Our IPTO becomes an International Preliminary Examination Authority (IPEA) and International Search Authority (ISA) upon publication of the rules in the Official Gazette. IPTO’s Delhi office will perform the function of the IPEA.
The rules also define a specific section relating to the format of applications to be submitted before the Controller. All documents except affidavits and drawings, should be submitted in a font that is not less than 0.28″ and have at least 1.5 line spacing. The document should be on A4 paper, with defined margins (4 cm for top and left, 3cm for bottom and right). Each sheet must be numbered in Arabic numerals in the bottom center. Numbering to be provided after every 5 lines.
Our more experienced readers would appreciate that the format of the application is similar to that of EPO requirements (See Rules 46, 47 and 49).
Hopefully, once the rules are officially notified- it would be possible for the IPTO to publish a complete application and subsequently it’s file history.
can india perfome well as ISA & IPEA? i really could not understand what is the real back groung issue when there is no such tecnical or phisical infrastrutures available in IPO. what made the ministry to come up with this? really utter waste, who will say this to ministry? let GOD save the applicants who file ISA and IPEA in IPO.