{"id":653,"date":"2016-05-17T09:45:18","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T04:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/?p=653"},"modified":"2016-10-06T09:54:03","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T04:24:03","slug":"new-patent-rules-the-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/new-patent-rules-the-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"New Patent Rules- the changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Patents (Amendment) Rules 2016, effective 16<sup>th<\/sup> May 2016, prescribe some major procedural changes in patent prosecution in India. The article looks at some salient changes proposed by the Rules:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Address for service made mandatory<\/li>\n<li>Leaving and serving documents<\/li>\n<li>Refund of fees<\/li>\n<li>Inclusions in specifications<\/li>\n<li>Formalities pertaining to amendments<\/li>\n<li>International applications designating India<\/li>\n<li>Examination of applications<\/li>\n<li>Expedited examination of applications<\/li>\n<li>Hearings &#8211; timeframes and remote participations<\/li>\n<li>Oppositions<\/li>\n<li>Adjournment of hearings<\/li>\n<li>Certified copies<\/li>\n<li>Agency<\/li>\n<li>Power to extend time prescribed<\/li>\n<li>Fees for sequence listing<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The firm\u2019s engagement as a stakeholder in the patents process also sees some of its proposals being incorporated in the Rules:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Refund of examination fees<\/li>\n<li>Permission to delete claims when entering national phase in India<\/li>\n<li>6+3 months\u2019 time to reply to the examination report<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Authored by Nupur Maithani.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This article was published on <a href=\"https:\/\/patentsrewind.wordpress.com\/2016\/05\/17\/new-patent-rules-the-delta\/\" target=\"_blank\">Patents Rewind<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Patents (Amendment) Rules 2016, effective 16th May 2016, prescribe some major procedural changes in patent prosecution in India. The article looks at some salient changes proposed by the Rules: Address for service made mandatory Leaving and serving documents Refund of fees Inclusions in specifications Formalities pertaining to amendments International applications designating India Examination of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[57],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":654,"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions\/654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}