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    Patents (Amendment) Rules, 2024 notified by the Department For Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT)

    Posted 19 Mar 2024

    2 min read

    • Rules have been brought in accordance with the Patents Act 1970 to amend Patents Rules, 2003. 
    • Rules aim at simplifying the process of obtaining and managing patents thereby fulfilling the Viksit Bharat Sankalp.

     

    • Key Provisions:-
      • Introduced New ‘Certificate of Inventorship’ to acknowledge the contribution of inventors in the patented invention.
      • Time limit for filing request for examination has been reduced from 48 months to 31 months.  
      • Renewal fee has been reduced by 10% if paid in advance through electronic mode for a period of at least 4 years.
      • Frequency to file the statements of working of patents has been reduced from once in a financial year to once in every three financial years.

     

    • Rules will support the other initiatives for promoting Patents, such as 
      • National Intellectual property rights (IPR) Policy 2016, it includes 
        • National Intellectual Property Awareness Mission (NIPAM)
        • Patent Facilitation Programme
        • Expand Knowledge Capacity & Skill Building through initiative like Scheme for Pedagogy & Research in IPRs for Holistic Education and Academia (SPRIHA).
      • Establishment of Centre of Excellence in Intellectual Property and Patent Analysis Management System (PAMS) by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY). 

     

    About Patent

    • A statutory right granted by the respective governments. 
    • It gives the exclusive rights and bars others from making, using, selling and importing product or process, based on the patented invention without prior permission.
    • Time period: 20 years 
    • Criteria for patent:- Should be novel, must involve an inventive step, capable of industrial production etc.
    • India has ratified Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT). 
    • Indian patent office has granted >1 lakh patents between Mar, 2023 to Mar, 2024.

     

    • Tags :
    • Patents (Amendment) Rules
    • Patent
    • simplifying patent regime
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