Government of India
Office of The Controller General of
Patents, Designs & Trade Marks
Boudhik Sampada Bhavan
S.M. Road, Antop Hill
Mumbai-400 037 (India)
CG/F/2016/146 Dated: 14.06.2016
PUBLIC NOTICE
The Patents (Amendments) Rules, 2016 have come into force w.e.f. 16th May, 2016. In this regard the stakeholders and general public are hereby informed that in terms of provisions of sub-rule (13) of Rule 24C relating to expedited examination of applications, the number of requests for expedited examination to be received by the Patent Office on or before 31st December, 2016 has been limited to 1000 requests.
(Om. Prakash Gupta)
Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks