Vikas Sharma

Manual of Patent Office Practice and Procedure (2019), Chapter 9: section 3(a), (b), (c), (e) and (f) - frivolous inventions, public order and morality, discoveries, mere admixtures and mere arrangement of known devices4 Oct 2026 Manual of Patent Office Practice and Procedure (2019), Chapter 9: industrial applicability, sufficiency of disclosure and unity of invention - what the examiner tests and how each objection is met4 Oct 2026 Manual of Patent Office Practice and Procedure (2019), Chapter 9: inventive step - the general principle and the steps the examiner follows to decide whether an invention is obvious4 Oct 2026 Manual of Patent Office Practice and Procedure (2019), Chapter 9: reference of the application to an examiner, the search for anticipation by prior publication and prior claim, and how novelty is assessed4 Oct 2026 Manual of Patent Office Practice and Procedure (2019), Chapter 9: expedited examination - who qualifies, the request, how the Office processes it and when it is converted to an ordinary request4 Oct 2026 Manual of Patent Office Practice and Procedure (2019), Chapter 9: the request for examination - who may file it, the period the Manual states, and the 31-month period that applies after the 2024 amendment4 Oct 2026 Manual of Patent Office Practice and Procedure (2019), Chapter 7: entering the PCT national phase in India - the time limit, the basic requirements, translations, amendments and what the Office checks4 Oct 2026 Manual of Patent Office Practice and Procedure (2019), Chapter 7: filing a PCT international application from India - the Indian Patent Office as Receiving Office, its checks, international search, withdrawals and international preliminary examination4 Oct 2026 Manual of Patent Office Practice and Procedure (2019), Chapter 7: convention applications - convention countries, the twelve-month window, documents to submit, multiple priorities and other conditions4 Oct 2026 Manual of Patent Office Practice and Procedure (2019), Chapter 6: divisional applications and patents of addition - when each is allowed, contents, priority, the office to file in and what the examiner checks4 Oct 2026 Manual of Patent Office Practice and Procedure (2019), Chapter 5: the priority date of each claim - provisional followed by complete, divisional and convention applications, and what the priority date decides4 Oct 2026 Manual of Patent Office Practice and Procedure (2019), Chapter 5: claims - unity of invention and clarity, why claims matter, their scope and how a claim is structured4 Oct 2026