IP & Business
Patent Registration
We help inventors and businesses turn an invention into an enforceable right: patentability searches, drafting, filing and prosecution before the Indian Patent Office, and international protection through the PCT and Paris Convention routes.
The ground
What you are actually dealing with
What a patent is?
A patent is a time-limited monopoly granted for an invention, in exchange for disclosing it fully to the public. Under the Patents Act, 1970 an invention must be new, must involve an inventive step, and must be capable of industrial application. It runs twenty years from the date of filing, subject to annual renewal, and it is territorial: an Indian patent stops nobody outside India.
What cannot be patented in India?
Section 3 excludes a long list, and it catches more applications than novelty does. A mere discovery of a scientific principle, a new form of a known substance without enhanced efficacy, a business method, a mathematical method, a computer program as such, a presentation of information, and methods of agriculture or of medical treatment are all outside the system. Knowing this before drafting is what stops a specification being written toward an exclusion.
Provisional or complete
A provisional specification secures a priority date while the invention is still being developed, and buys twelve months to file the complete specification. It is genuinely useful, and it is also where applications are most often damaged: a provisional that does not describe the invention adequately does not support the claims that follow, and the priority it appeared to buy is lost.
The claims are the patent
The description explains the invention; the claims define what you can stop others doing. Claims drawn too narrowly are designed around within a year of grant. Drawn too widely, they read onto prior art and are revoked. Everything else in a patent application is preparation for getting those few sentences right.
Our part
How we approach patent work
Our team includes registered Patent Agents with engineering and science backgrounds, which matters because the first job in any patent is to understand the invention properly. Drafting is done here, not passed to a vendor, and the attorney who drafts the specification is the one who defends it at examination.
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Search and a written patentability view before any money goes into drafting.
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Specifications drafted by people qualified in the field the invention sits in.
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Examination reports answered with argument and, where useful, amended claims that keep scope rather than surrendering it.
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PCT and Paris Convention filings planned as one strategy across jurisdictions.
Scope
What this engagement covers
- Patentability and freedom-to-operate searches
- Provisional and complete specification drafting, with drawings
- Filing and prosecution before the Indian Patent Office
- Examination reports, hearings and claim amendment
- Pre-grant and post-grant opposition
- PCT, Paris Convention and national-phase filings
- Annuities, working statements and portfolio upkeep
How it runs
The process, stage by stage
No stage carries a promised date. The Registry's queue and the court's list are not ours to commit on your behalf. What we commit to is doing our part of each stage without delay.
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Search and assess
A prior-art search and a written patentability opinion, including whether the invention runs into a section 3 exclusion.
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Draft
The specification and claims are drafted, with drawings, describing the invention fully enough to support the scope being claimed.
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File
Provisional or complete specification filed with the Indian Patent Office, with the priority date secured.
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Publication and examination
The application publishes, examination is requested, and the First Examination Report is answered with submissions and any claim amendments.
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Hearing and grant
A hearing is attended where one is fixed, and the patent proceeds to grant.
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Maintain and extend
Annuities and working statements are diarised, and foreign filings taken forward through the PCT or direct national routes.
Common questions
Questions we are asked most often
It depends on whether the invention is settled. A provisional secures a priority date while development continues, but it only supports claims it actually describes. If the invention is complete, a complete specification is usually the better filing.