July 2012: Controller’s decisions at the IPO

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   Anonymous

   August 10, 2012 at 6:16 am

   Dear Rajiv:

   We have downloaded almost all of the decisions on the IPO site – every single one of them.

   Our assessment is that the IPO today has close to 1000 decisions on its server, open to public- afer discounting the multiple links to a single case.

   Of these, our (not completely accurate, but fairly usable) analysis gives us following data:

   a) there are around 135 decisions that ‘while posted’ do not open into any actual decision.

   b) The above can be separated into 2 main parts – ‘files not uploaded’ and the ingenious trick of ‘doc2’. Doc 2 is a situation where there is ostensibly a decision uploaded – called ‘doc2.pdf’ however when you click on it, you get a 1 page blank white page!

   c) Continuing the above aspects on non-availability of 135 odd decisions while ostensibly uploaded, these are our break-up figures – Controller wise )again, not 100% accurate, but fairly usable):
   A. T. Patre — 21 decisions missing / links not working;
   Anoop K Joy – 13 decisions missing / links not working;
   Monika Yadav – 15 decisions missing / links not working;
   All other controllers – less than 10 each, for e.g. Controller Shah Alam – 7 decisions missing / links not working.

   There seems to be no valid reason for why these decisions are not uploaded and our emails to the Patent Office on this aspect have gone unanswered.

   Regards,
   Freq. Anon.

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   Anonymous

   August 12, 2012 at 4:19 am

   I had earlier written my comment about passing of the orders for grant/refusal many months after the deadline. It was stated that it is no more in practice. Yes it is even now. The orders are passed in back date or if in current date showing to have given a hearing after many months of the deadline and then granted/refused. What is the purpose of deadline. All the office objections have been removed from the side of the applicant, but the fate is still unknown even after the passage of one year of the deadline for putting the application in order of acceptance/grant. The status on the website of the IPO shown the application as “under examination”. It is very difficult for us to say to the foreign clients that the deadline even though is over, but the orders are yet to be passed and that the application is still alive and under consideration.

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   Anonymous

   August 13, 2012 at 5:44 am

   It is clear that whenever Controllers have to hide something from the public, they conveniently do not upload the files.Inspite of an official order to the contrary, Controllers are still sending subsequent examination reports(sometimes even three examination reports). This puts unnecessary pressure on the applicants as they often have to respond to inconsequential objections raised by the controllers.The very intention of transparency and efficiency is neutralized by such silly tricks.

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   Rajiv Kr. Choudhry

   August 16, 2012 at 9:59 am

   Dear Anons: When I prepare the list, I can tabulate the list according to controller. But I don’t do that. This is because it is clear who are the controller’s who have not posted the decisions or are the laggards.

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5. 

   Jitendra

   August 20, 2012 at 10:29 am

   Thanks Rajiv for another nice work. Astonishingly, only 2/3 decisions have been made by the Patent Office, Kolkata. I know very well that there has been a large number of Controllers working in the Kolkata Patent Office. What are they doing now?

   In this connection I must admit that the “Kurian” Effect was appropriate to have an “Increased Efficiency at the Indian Patent Office” [http://spicyipindia.blogspot.ie/2009/04/kurian-effect-increased-efficiency-at.html]. Further to this, I must admit that Mr. P.H. Kurian was the Patent Office’s ‘Knight in Shining Armour’
   [http://spicyipindia.blogspot.ie/2011/06/ph-kurian-patent-offices-knight-in.html]

   Rampant nepotism and corruption are seen in Kolkata, Delhi and Mumbai patent offices now. Even few months back Officers were scared to act in an errant manner. My experiences and the experiences of other agent houses reveal that the Head of these offices and the officers and staffs of the Designs Wing are so corrupt that they decide the cases based upon provided privileges. Repeated requests to the current CGPDTM, Mr. Prasad, didn’t melt the ice. Sufficient reasons are there to believe that blessings of the Ministry work for these Offices as there has been a coterie driven network.

   I request Spicy IP to write an investigative article on the malfunctioning of Kolkata Patent Office and the corruption and nepotism of the senior officers and staffs of Kolkata, Delhi and Mumbai Patent Offices and the Design Wing of the Patent Office. It’s time to shot with evidences, otherwise the businesses and the agent houses will be jeopardized. Ministry and CGPDTM must act accordingly in order to clear a huge backlog at Kolkata Patent Office providing a good the quality of examination.

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