Examination Of Computer Related Inventions - Draft Guidelines By Indian Patent Office

The Indian Patent Office has issued draft guidelines for the examination of Computer Related Inventions (CRIs). The basic aim of the draft guidelines is to bring uniformity and consistency in the examination procedure. The guidelines discusses various provisions of the patentability of the CRIs, procedure to be adopted by examiners for examination of such patent applications and jurisprudence involved in granting or rejecting patents in the field of technology. The draft guidelines also discusses various examples of the contents of the complete specification such as description, claims, prior art etc. for better understanding of the issues involved. We will discuss some important points as mentioned in the draft guidelines.