The patents rules can be
amended by the virtue of section 159 of the Patent Act 1970, the
following changes were proposed by the Central government on
4th of December 2018 through the Department Of
Industrial Policy And Promotion.
1. The notification takes the title
of the rules to be amended to Patents (Amendment) Rules, 2018.
2. Rule 18 which is regarding the
appropriate office in relation to international applications, the
rules clarifies that it be the designated office ,receiving office
and elected office in case of international application. The
following are proposed to be the appropriate offices referred to in
Rule 4:
- Central government has proposed to add a proviso to the above
stated rule sub rule (2) which says that the Delhi branch shall be
the appropriate office for the handling of international searching
authority functions.
