India: New notification paves way for faster communication
of Design Registration
In a public notice released on September 05, 2016, the
Office of the Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trademarks
(hereinafter referred to as the ‘CGPDTM’), has intimated all stakeholders that
in order to facilitate faster processing of applications for registration of
designs, First Examination Reports (FER) and subsequent office communications
shall be communicated in the e-mail or digital address of the applicant/agent
as mentioned in the address of service for respective design applications
wherever available.
This is a
welcome move and will certainly go a long way to fasten up the process of
applications for registrations of Designs and this provision of sending First
Examination Reports to applicant/ agent through e-mail has commenced from
September 5, 2016.
According to the
Information Booklet published by the CGPDTM, the time period for acceptance of
an application is six months which can subsequently be extended to another
three months. The new notice pertaining to online correspondences between the
Applicant and the registry will ensure that the whole process is expedited and
the said time frame is reduced considerably.
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