- The Indian Patent Office released draft amendment to the Patent Rules on March 8, 2011. The Draft amendment is directed to number of changes which includes e-filing of patent applications and related forms, assistance in E-filing to those for whom E-filing is not convenient, the format of applications to be submitted, provisions relating to sequence listing of nucleotides and/ or amino acids sequences in computer readable form (ASCII text file), submission of amendment to specification and drawings through online system and changes the First schedule of the Patent Rules.
- The office of controller general of patents, designs & trademarks of the Indian patent office released, the MANUAL OF PATENT OFFICE PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE as modified on March 22, 2011.
- In the month of May, 2011 the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, Ministry of Commerce & Industry of the Indian government has released a Discussion Paper on Utility Models. The paper examines the viability of introducing utility models in the IPR regime in India with an objective to develop a suitable framework for protecting utility models if it is found desirable.
- In the month of April, 2011 the Office of Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks, India has published the “Draft Manual of Geographical Indications Practice and Procedure”. The manual has been finalized and published on 27 July 2011.
- WIPO and India, Partner to Protect Traditional Knowledge from Misappropriation, this is based on the three-day International Conference on the Utilization of the Traditional Knowledge Digital Library as a Model for Protection of Traditional Knowledge, co-organized by WIPO and India’s Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), which took place on March 22-24 of 2011. The Indian TKDL (Traditional Knowledge Digital Library) project, developed over a ten year period, documented knowledge about traditional medical treatments and the curative properties of plants, which was contained in ancient texts and languages, and classified the information in a searchable database. The TKDL now contains 34 million pages in five international languages.
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