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Online patent Registration in India is highly encouraged by the Government of India. The National Intellectual Property Policy that was launched by the Government of India on 12th May 2016 has laid down 7 objections including the Administration and Management of IPRs in India in order to strengthen the IPR regime in India. This policy encourages innovation in the country so that the country’s industrial and economic development goals are achieved.
The office of the Controller General of Patents, Designs, Trademarks and Geographical Indications which functions under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, is dedicatedly working towards the protection of intellectual creation of the country and of the world by aligning the national interests with the international standards. This office has taken necessary steps to implement the Policy effectively by maintaining transparency, uniformity and consistency in the processing of IP applications, disseminating of IP related information and developing bilateral cooperation at the Internal level.
Online patent Registration in Indiaare governed by the Patent Act, 1970 and Patent (Amendment) Rules, 2017. Amendments to the Patent Rules made in the year 2003, made into force in May 2016. These amendments have brought tremendous changes in the Patent regime by simplifying the patent procedure, expedited examination of applications, mandatory online filing by the patent agents, hearing through video-conferencing and many more.
In the year 2012-13, 43,674 applications for patent were filed, which saw an increase of up to 4% in 2016-17 with the 45,444 applications for patent. Filing has increased by 1.2% when compared with 2015-16 statistics.
However, about 1% drop was noticed in the number of convention applications and about 6% drop was noticed in the number of Patent Corporation Treaty (PCT) applications in the year 2016-17 as compared to the previous year.
The number of applications examined increased by 72.2% and the number of grants of patent increased by 55.3% during 2016-17 as compared to that of 2015-16.
AnOnline Patent e Filing in India was granted within a recording period of 113 days in the history of the Indian Patent regime by using expedited examination route.
According to State wise classification of the number of applications for patent registration filed Maharashtra stands first in the list with 3513 applications and Tamil Nadu is the second in the list had filed 2003 applications in the year 2016- 17.
The top Indian applicant for registration of patent is Indian Institute of Technology (Collectively), which had filed 400 applications during the year 2016-17. The 2nd in the list is WIPRO Limited with 226 applications out which 190 applications were based on Information Technology (IT), which is the highest in the IT field in 2016-17. Council of Scientific and Industrial Research bags the 1st position in filing highest number of applications for registration of patent from Scientific, Research and Development Organizations.
The 4 Patent Offices at Kolkata, Mumbai, Delhi and Chennai have the Scientific and Technical Libraries, facilitates the public with consultation and reference work. The total number of registered patent agents as of 31st March 2017 was 2,422. In an era of developing IP regime, Company Vakil is a leading firm which provides Online Patent e Filing in India, efficiently.
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