Title : Information Relating to Patents
State : Central
Year : 1970
Aperson making a request to the Controller in the prescribed manner forinformation relating to any such matters as may be prescribed as respects anypatent specified in the request or as respects any application for a patent sospecified shall be entitled, subject to the payment of the prescribed fee, tohave information supplied to him accordingly. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Loss or Destruction of Patents
State : Central
Year : 1970
If a patent is lost or destroyed, or its non-production is accounted for to the satisfaction of the Controller, the Controller may at any time, on application made in the prescribed manner and on payment of the prescribed fee, cause a duplicate thereof to be sealed and delivered to the applicant. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Effect of Acceptance of Complete Specification [Omitted]
State : Central
Year : 1970
24.1[Omitted] _______________________ 1. Omitted by Patent Amendment Act (15 of 2005). Previous to omission: 24. Effect of acceptance of complete specification.-On and from the date of advertisement of the acceptance of a complete specification and until the date of sealing of a patent in respect thereof, the applicant shall have the like privileges and rights as if a patent for the invention had been sealed on the date of advertisement of acceptance of the complete specification: Provided that the applicant shall not be entitled to institute any proceedings for infringement until the patent has been sealed. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Term of Patents of Addition
State : Central
Year : 1970
(1) A patent of addition shall be granted for a term equal to that of the patent for the main invention, or so much thereof as has not expired, and shall remain in force during that term or until the previous cesser of the patent for the main invention and no longer: Provided that if the patent for the main invention is revoked under this Act, the court, or, as the case may be, the Controller, on request made to him by the patentee in the prescribed manner, may order that the patent of addition shall become an independent patent for the remainder of the term for the patent for the main invention and thereupon the patent shall continue in force as an independent patent accordingly. (2) No renewal fees shall be payable in respect of a patent of addition, but, if any such patent..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Rights of Patentees of Lapsed Patents Which Have Been Restored
State : Central
Year : 1970
(1) Where a patent is restored, the rights of the patentee shall be subject to such provisions as may be prescribed and to such other provisions as the Controller thinks fit to impose for the protection or compensation of persons who may have begun to avail themselves of, or have taken definite steps by contract or otherwise to avail themselves of, the patented invention between the date when the patent ceased to have effect and the dale of1[publication] of the application for restoration of the patent under this Chapter. (2) No suit or other proceeding shall be commenced or prosecuted in respect of an infringement of a patent committed between the date on which the patent ceased to have effect and the2[date of publication] of the application for restoration of the patent. ..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Power of Registered Grantee or Proprietor to Deal with Patent
State : Central
Year : 1970
Subject to the provisions contained in this Act relating to co-ownership of patents and subject also to any rights vested in any other person of which notice is entered in the register, the person or persons registered as grantee or proprietor of a patent shall have power to assign, grant licences under, or otherwise deal with, the patent and to give effectual receipts for any consideration for any such assignment, licence or dealing: Provided that any equities in respect of the patent may be enforced in like manner as in respect of any other movable property. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : General Principles Applicable to Working of Patented Inventions
State : Central
Year : 1970
Without prejudice to the other provisions contained in this Act, in exercising the powers conferred by this Chapter, regard shall be had to the following general considerations, namely : (a) that patents are granted to encourage inventions and to secure that the inventions are worked in India on a commercial scale and to the fullest extent that is reasonably practicable without undue delay; (b) that they are not granted merely to enable patentees to enjoy a monopoly for the importation of the patented article; (c) that the protection and enforcement of patent rights contribute to the promotion of technological innovation and to the transfer and dissemination of technology, to the mutual advantage of producers and users of technological knowledge and in a manner conducive to social..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Amendment of Patent Granted to Deceased Applicant
State : Central
Year : 1970
Where, at any time after a patent has been1[granted] in pursuance of an application under this Act, the Controller is satisfied that the person to whom the patent was granted had died, or, in the case of a body corporate, had ceased to exist, before the patent was1[granted],, the Controller may amend the patent by substituting for the name of that person the name of the person to whom the patent ought to have been granted, and the patent shall have effect, and shall be deemed always to have had effect, accordingly. ____________________ 1. Substituted by Patents Amendment Act, 2005 (15 of 2005) for the words: sealed. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Patent Rights Not Infringed when Used on Foreign Vessels Etc., Temporarily or Accidentally in India
State : Central
Year : 1970
(1) Where a vessel or aircraft registered in a foreign country or a land vehicle owned by a person ordinarily resident in such country comes into India (including the territorial wastes thereof) temporarily or accidentally only, the rights conferred by a patent for an invention shall not be deemed to be infringed by the use of the invention (a) in the body of the vessel or in the machinery, tackle, apparatus or other accessories thereof, so far as the invention is used on board the vessel and for its actual needs only; or (b) in the construction or working of the aircraft or land vehicle or of the accessories thereof,as the case may be. (2) This section shall not extend to vessels, aircrafts or land vehicles owned by persons ordinarily resident in a foreign country the laws of..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Procedure for Disposal of Applications for Restoration of Lapsed Patents
State : Central
Year : 1970
(1) If, after hearing the applicant in cases where the applicant so desires or the Controller thinks fit, the Controller is prima facie satisfied that the failure to pay the renewal fee was unintentional and that there has been no undue delay in the making of the application, he shall1[publish the application] in the prescribed manner; and within the prescribed period any person interested may give notice to the Controller of opposition thereto on either or both of the following grounds, that is to say,- (a) that the failure to pay the renewal fee was not unintentional; or (b) that there has been undue delay in the making of the application. (2) If notice of opposition is given within the period aforesaid, the Controller shall notify the applicant, and shall give to him and to the..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section