Patents Rules · Chapter VII

Secrecy Directions

Chapter VII of the Patents Rules, 2003 contains 3 rules, of which 1 has been omitted. Each one has its own page with a plain-language explanation, a worked Indian example, the forms and deadlines it touches, and the sections it connects to.

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Rules in this chapter

In force

Omitted

71–73

Rule numbers

71Permission for making patent application outside India under section 39Sets out how a person resident in India asks the Controller for written permission before filing a patent application abroad.
72Communication of result of reconsideration under section 36(2)Requires the Controller to tell the applicant the outcome when a secrecy direction on their invention is reconsidered by the Central Government.
73Omitted OmittedThis rule in the secrecy directions chapter of the Patents Rules stands omitted and no longer prescribes any procedure.