Year 2009 was an active year for the Indian Patent office, with more than 150 decisions involving patent applications being rendered. The choices the Patent Office makes in coming to these decisions gives an insight into the decision-making process at the Patent Office. More than the Patent Manual, it is these decisions that provide real-life situations of how applications are decided at the Patent Office. The orders of the Patent Office cover a wide array of matter ranging from application refusals under section 15 to pre-grant opposition . Your interest may lie in seeing your patents granted or in opposing others patents before their grant. Either way, you need to know the mind of the Patent Office this Seminar will tell you how the Patent Office decided in 2009.
The Agenda will include:
- Brief survey on the adjudicatory functions of the Patent Office with specific focus on section 15 and section 25 orders.
- Survey of all the cases decided by the Patent Office in 2009
- Analysing general trends on how the patent office decides in particular situations involving:
* Request for examination of applications
* Refusal of applications
* Divisional applications
* Abandonment of applications
* Pre-grant opposition of the application
- Brief survey on the adjudicatory functions of the Patent Office with specific focus on section 15 and section 25 orders.
- Survey of all the cases decided by the Patent Office in 2009
- Analysing general trends on how the patent office decides in particular situations involving:
* Request for examination of applications
* Refusal of applications
* Divisional applications
* Abandonment of applications
* Pre-grant opposition of the application
Specific case studies to understand why and how patent applications get rejected
Venue: Academy of Intellectual Property Studies, Mumbai'
Date: Saturday, June 26, 2010-06-04
For more details :call 91 22 2874 6123 / 6522 1097 or e-mail info@aips.ac.in
