SALIENT FEATURES OF PATENT AMENDMENT RULES 2024
1. Form 1 amended to provide gender and age of Applicant and inventors as well as email and phone no. of Applicant. For natural person, mentioning of age is not mandatory. 2. Form 3: Statement and Under taking as to corresponding Foreign Applications. First Form 3 is to be filed within 6 months as usual. If raised as objection in FER, it needs to be filed within 3 months. The Controller can use the accessible and available databases, for considering the information relating to applications filed in a country outside India and for reasons recorded in writing. The Controller can demand fresh statement and undertaking on Form 3 within 2 months. Controller has power to condone delay up to 3 months on request being made on Form 4. 3. Divisional Application : Rule 13 (2A) introduced which gives option to file further applications to Applicant in respect of invention disclosed in complete or provision...