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The Indian Patent office has published public notice CG/ Public Notice/ PO/2012/15 dated July 2, 2012, whereby the Patent office has simplified process of filing of PCT national phase Applications in India.   These instructions would come into force from July 6, 2012 and would do away the redundant process of filing multiple documents that are invariably available on records of the IB of WIPO. This will also reduce errors in data entry to obviate need for corrections in PCT national phase applications filed in India. The following changes would come into force: 1.          Along with Form 2 (having 1-3 columns) instead of entire Complete specifications only the signature sheet of claims need to be filed (only last page of claims as per records of the IB where the Applicant or authorised agent of Applicant has to put his signature along with date of filing Complete Specification). 2.        ...

Vide public notice no. 15 of 2012 dated July 2, 2012, the Controller Genera l has simplified process of filing of PCT national phase Applications in India. These directions would come into force from July 6, 2012 and would do away the redundant process of filing multiple documents that are available at IB. This is applicable only for PCT national phase filing that do not claim priority from any earlier PCT national phase application filed in India The following change would come into force: 1. Along with Form 2 (having 1-3 columns) only the signature sheet of claims need to be filed. 2. For such application the Column 7 and 8 of the Form 1 are not required to be filled in. Indian Patent office would not allow any amendment before entering national phase in India and would take details of Application as available on records of the IB Therefore any amendment (not reflecting on record of IB) has to be carried out after entering national phase in India. However, where the intern...