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....atent to Food Products/Medicines. <br>News and Press Release<br>Dated:- 13-8-2012<br><BR>Press Information Bureau Government of India Ministry of Commerce & Industry 13-August-2012 17:14 IST Patent to Food Products/Medicines As on 31st December, 2011, 12690 applications seeking patent for food products/ medicines/pharmaceutical inventions are pending with the Office of the Controller Genera....
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....l of Patents, Designs & Trade Marks (O/o CGPDTM). The location wise pendency of patent applications is as follows:- Location Patent applications pending for examination Delhi 6386 Mumbai 2669 Kolkata 1862 Chennai 1773 Total 12690 The details of these applications are available on the official website of the O/o CGPDTM i.e. [email protected] During the last three years, i.e., from 2....
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....009 to 2011, 94 patents were granted to food products and 1810 patents were granted for medicines/pharmaceutical inventions in the same period. The details in respect of patents granted to food products and medicines/pharmaceutical inventions in the last three years are also available on the official website of the O/o CGPDTM. Grant of patent is a quasi-judicial process and tends to be time consu....
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....ming as it involves various steps, inter alia, publication of the application, filing of requests for examination, examination of the application and disposal of any pre grant opposition filed. In addition, substantive increase in filing of patent application by more than 250% in the last ten years as also the relative shortage of patent examiners have been the other reasons for increase in penden....
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....cy. The Government has completed the process of selection of 248 patent examiners. Of these, as on 30th April, 2012, 135 have joined. At present, all essential steps involved in the processing of patent applications are carried out through electronic module, which has been an important factor in imparting accuracy, efficiency and transparency to the patent examination system and in avoiding dela....
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....ys in carrying out the process steps. This information was given by the Minister of State for Commerce & Industry Shri Jyotiraditya M. Scindia in written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today. DS/GK<BR> News - Press release - PIB....