Patent Grant Archives

Amidst national lock-down, IPO comes to a grinding halt

This week’s Patent & Design data has been compiled from the Official Journal of the Patents and Designs Office published by the patent office on the 27th of March 2020. These statistics are presented to you by the Patent attorneys and experts of BananaIP Counsels, India’s leading Intellectual Property Firm. INDIAN PATENT STATISTICS A total of 382 patent applications have been published in the 13th issue of the Patent Journal, 2020. Out of the 382 applications published in…

March 30, 2020 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Patents 0Comment 618Views 0Like

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Patent Office publishes 80% more patent applications this week, Grants reduce by 30%

This week’s Patent & Design data has been compiled from the Official Journal of the Patents and Designs Office published by the patent office on the 14th of February 2020. These statistics are presented to you by the Patent attorneys and experts of BananaIP Counsels, India’s leading Intellectual Property Firm. INDIAN PATENT STATISTICS A total of 1422 patent applications have been published in the 7th issue of the Patent Journal, 2020. Out of the 1422 applications published in the journal,…

February 17, 2020 BananaIP Reporter Industrial Designs, Patents 0Comment 929Views 0Like

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Patent grant and design registrations increase this week

This week’s Patent & Design data has been compiled from the Official Journal of the Patents and Designs Office published by the patent office on the 24th of January 2020. These statistics are presented to you by the Patent attorneys and experts of BananaIP Counsels, India’s leading Intellectual Property Firm. INDIAN PATENT STATISTICS A total of 1148 patent applications have been published in the 4th issue of the Patent Journal, 2020. Out of the 1148 applications published in the…

January 28, 2020 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property 0Comment 849Views 0Like

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Final issue of patent & design journal published

This week’s Patent & Design data has been compiled from the Official Journal of the Patents and Designs Office published by the patent office on the 27th of December 2019. These statistics are presented to you by the Patent attorneys and experts of BananaIP Counsels, India’s leading Intellectual Property Firm. Indian Patent Statistics A total of 433 patent applications have been published in the 52nd issue of the Patent Journal, 2019. Out of the 433 applications published in the journal,…

December 31, 2019 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Patents 0Comment 750Views 0Like

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22,000+ patents granted so far this year, will the IPO reach the 25,000 figure?

This week’s Patent & Design data has been compiled from the Official Journal of the Patents and Designs Office published by the patent office on the 13th of December 2019. These statistics are presented to you by the Patent attorneys and experts of BananaIP Counsels, India’s leading Intellectual Property Firm. Indian Patent Statistics A total of 1633 patent applications have been published in the 50th issue of the Patent Journal, 2019. Out of the 1633 applications published in the journal,…

December 17, 2019 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Patents 0Comment 806Views 0Like

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Patent office examines 3500 patent applications in one week! New record?

This week’s Patent & Design data has been compiled from the Official Journal of the Patents and Designs Office published by the patent office on the 6th of December 2019. These statistics are presented to you by the Patent attorneys and experts of BananaIP Counsels, India’s leading Intellectual Property Firm. Indian Patent Statistics A total of 1480 patent applications have been published in the 49th issue of the Patent Journal, 2019. Out of the 1480 applications published in the journal,…

December 10, 2019 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Patents 0Comment 711Views 0Like

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Massive increase in early publication of patent applications

This week’s Patent & Design data has been compiled from the Official Journal of the Patents and Designs Office published by the patent office on the 29thof November 2019. These statistics are presented to you by the Patent attorneys and experts of BananaIP Counsels, India’s leading Intellectual Property Firm. INDIAN PATENT STATISTICS A total of 846 patent applications have been published in the 48th issue of the Patent Journal, 2019. Out of the 846 applications published in the journal, 240…

December 3, 2019 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Patents 0Comment 650Views 0Like

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Delhi HC Interprets the Date of Grant of Patent

This post was first published on 27th April, 2012. On request of one of our followers, we have revised the blog post titled, "Delhi HC Interprets the Timeline for Pre-grant Representation of a Patent" posted on 24th April. An important and essential question that came up before this Court in the case of Dr. (Miss) Snehlata Gupte vs Union Of India & Ors. was regarding when a patent is said to be granted under the Patents Act, 1970 (“Act”). In this…

July 27, 2019 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Patents 0Comment 1270Views 0Like

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All is Not Lost: How to Restore your Priority Right!

This post was first published on 24th July, 2014. We are well aware of the importance of the Priority Right and therefore also know what losing a priority right can cause. It may throw even the strongest of inventions off balance. A valid priority claim would give us the priority date which is the date of filing of the first application. This date is also known as "effective date of filing” in many jurisdictions. In other words, as the name suggests, the prior…

July 24, 2019 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Patents 0Comment 1940Views 0Like

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Common Reasons for Delay in Grant of Patent

This post was first posted on 20th July, 2o14. A Patent gives its owner a monopolistic right and protection against unauthorized use of anything under its protection. This is the reason that a patent only gets granted once it passes several levels of stringent scrutiny. This phase is called the examination of the patent application. Examination of the application determines whether the patent application is worthy of a patent grant and thus, unless the application fulfills all patentabilty criteria, it does not receive a grant. For…