{"id":136958,"date":"2021-09-25T20:09:04","date_gmt":"2021-09-25T14:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=136958"},"modified":"2021-09-29T14:39:11","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T09:09:11","slug":"patents-amendment-rules-2021-notified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/patents-amendment-rules-2021-notified\/","title":{"rendered":"Patents (Amendment) Rules, 2021 Notified"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Union Government has introduced the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Patents (Amendment) Rules, 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What are the key features of Patents (Amendment) Rules, 2021?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><b>Patent Fees for Educational Institutions Reduced<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Educational institutions engage in many research activities, where professors and teachers and students generate several new technologies which need to be patented for facilitating commercialization of the same.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, high <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">patenting fees present a restrictive element for getting these technologies patented and thus work as a disincentive for the development of new technologies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hence, the Government has now decided to reduce the patent filing and processing fees charged on educational institutions by 80% at par with similar concessions provided to startups under the Startup India initiative.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What are the steps taken by the Government to increase patents?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><b>The time taken for examination of patents <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">has come down from an average of 72 months in 2015 to 12-30 months at present, depending upon technology fields.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Scheme for Facilitating Startups Intellectual Property Protection (SIPP) <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">has been launched with an aim to provide facilitators to startups for filing and processing of their applications. The professional charges of such facilitators are reimbursed as per provisions under the SIPP scheme.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Hearing of cases in Patents<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> through Video-Conferencing for speedy and contact-less proceedings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Encouraging the digital process<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for applying &amp; granting patents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>The mechanism to lodge<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> feedback\/suggestions\/complaints in respect of issues related to the functioning of the IP offices has been set up in the IPO website for the benefit of stakeholders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201d<\/b><b>Patents (Amendment) Rules, 2021 Notified<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>PIB <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">on <\/span><b>23rd September 2021.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? The Union Government has introduced the Patents (Amendment) Rules, 2021. What are the key features of Patents (Amendment) Rules, 2021? Patent Fees for Educational Institutions Reduced Educational institutions engage in many research activities, where professors and teachers and students generate several new technologies which need to be patented for facilitating commercialization&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/patents-amendment-rules-2021-notified\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Patents (Amendment) Rules, 2021 Notified<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[8914,2965,9985],"class_list":["post-136958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-intellectual-property-rights","tag-patents","tag-patents-rules-2021","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704765351},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}