Founded in the year 2014 by Sujata Chaudhri and located in the National Capital Region (NCR) in India, our firm provides advisory, litigation and enforcement, and prosecution services in all areas of intellectual property law.
One of the most important decisions during patent prosecution is also one of the easiest to get wrong: When should the claims be amended? For foreign associates and international IP teams managing Indian patent portfolios, this question can arise at different stages of prosecution. Sometimes an amendment is made voluntarily to improve clarity or better define the invention. In other cases, an amendment becomes necessary in response to objections raised in an FER or during a h
A First Examination Report (FER) issued after filing examination request and starting point of prosecution of Indian Patent Application. It treated as a list of objections that needs to be answered to the Examiner objections. But in patent prosecution, an FER is much more than that. It is a turning point. It define us how the Examiner is viewing the claims, the prior art and the patentability of the invention and gives the applicant an opportunity to shape the next stage of p
In my last article, I discussed about that a patent is not the destination; it is the beginning of an innovation’s journey. But what determines whether that patent becomes a meaningful and valuable intellectual asset? Two stages play a critical role: patent search and patent examination. As an IP Attorney, I have seen many inventors celebrate the day their application is filed and published. It is a beautiful milestone, but filing alone does not make a strong patent. The real
