Penalties And Reliefs Under Patents Act (August 2021)

Chapter XX [Sections 118-124] of the Patents Act, 1970, deals with the provisions of penalties. Various parameters have been laid down by the Patent office to impose penalties on any act which were forbidden by Patent law. These penalties are in form of either fine, imprisonment or both. Parameters such as providing false information to patent office, unauthorized claims of Patent rights, failure to furnish information related to working of patent, wrongful use of word patent office, practice by unauthorized person i.e. non patent agents, offence by companies etc. Further, we will also discuss regarding the reliefs in an action for infringement as defined under section 108 of the Patents Act, 1970.