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to be served by the Opponent to the shall be taken on such application or documents
Applicant and the Applicant has to serve for further processing till such a deficiency is
a copy of the reply statement to the removed.
Opponent.
b. The Controller should pass a speaking 12. Power to extend time prescribed
order simultaneously while deciding on a. The following deadlines have been made
the application and the representation inextensible:
ordinarily within one month from i. Thirty one months’ timeline for
the completion of the opposition entering national phase in India
proceedings. ii. Filing priority document/ English
translation of priority document
9. Adjournment of hearing: A hearing adjournment iii. Filing review against the order of
request should be made at least three days the Controller
before the date of hearing and should provide a
reasonable cause for the request. No party will 14. Fees for sequence listing: A per page fees shall
be given more than two adjournments and each be chargeable for every page of sequence listing
adjournment shall not be for more than thirty with a cap amount of INR 24000 ( for natural
days. person), INR 60000 (for small entity/startup)
and INR 120000 (for other than natural person
10. Certified copies: Certified copies of documents and small entity/Startup)
can now be obtained on an expedited basis
within a period of one week if the request is The Patents (Amendment) Rules 2016 can be ac-
made with the specified fees. cessed at:-
http://www.ipindia.nic.in/writereaddata/Portal/IP-
11. Agency: The Power of Authority has to be filed ORule/1_42_1_Patent__Amendment_Rules_2016_
within a period of three months from the date 16May2016.pdf
of filing of the application failing which no action

COPYRIGHTS AND SEMICONDUCTORS COME

UNDER THE UMBRELLA OF THE MINISTRY OF

INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE
The Hon’ble President of India vide a
notification dated May 30, 2016 approved the and Commerce. The present Controller General
transfer of Copyrights and Semiconductors of Patents, Designs and Trademark now heads the
Copyright office also. With this move, the DIPP

from the Ministry of Human Resource Development now administers six Intellectual Property Rights,

and Information Technology Ministry, respectively namely, Patents, Trademarks, Designs, Geographical

to the Department of Industrial Policy and Indications, Copyrights and Semiconductors.

Promotion (DIPP) under the Ministry of Industry

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