Myth #1: Patent agent exam is for lawyers and completely law based According to the Government of India, minimum qualification to appear in the patent agent exam is – “Any Science Graduation”. There is no mention of any Law graduation or legal knowledge. This clearly indicates that patent agent is supposed to be a [...]
According to Report of the Prime Minister’s Task Force on Micro Small and Medium Enterprises, they contribute the 8 % of country’s GDP, 45% of the manufactured output and 40% of its export. MSME generally do not have millions of budget to be spend on research and development but what is popularly called in [...]
New Draft Manual has been compiled with an intention to codify the practices and procedures being followed by the Indian Patent Office. Some of the key features are as follows- Some of the key definitions have been explained in Chapter-2 Chapters 3 to 7 deal with the procedure of filing a patent application, including [...]
“Women Scientists Scheme (WOS-C)” on IPR, a scheme of Department of Science & Technology, Government of India for the women scientists is being implemented by Patent Facilitating Centre (PFC) of Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council (TIFAC). The scheme aims to train women scientists having qualifications in science/ engineering/ medicine or allied areas in [...]
Global Drug makers of INDIA have a proposal for Indian Government and it’s been considered. MNC’s trying to make love with PMO (Prime Minister Office) and the villain flags hoisted by Domestic Industry and Public Health Activity. The proposal of global drug makers seeks certain changes in the countries IPR. PMO in retort asks [...]
Shocking , but true. In an information revealed in the Parliament there are 79,000 patent applications pending to get grant at Indian Patent Office.Out of this, nearly a third of the applications are from mechanical engineering and chemicals segment. In the mechanical engineering segment 14,134 patent applications were pending, followed by chemicals segment (11,633), [...]
