TO ALL OUR ASSOCIATES & CLIENTS

It is an important update to be noted for Patent holders/clients who hold the Patents (already granted) in India. Recently, Indian Patent Office has issued a circular to submit the “Statement Regarding Working of Patented Invention on Commercial Scale in India” latest by 31 March 2010. Failure to submit the information leads to the huge penalty of one million rupees (about US$ 21,000.00) prescribed under the Indian Patent Act, 1970. The copy of the circular issued by the Controller General recently (24/12/2009) may be downloaded from the link for your reference: http://www.ipindia.nic.in/iponew/publicNotice_24December2009.pdf

Please be advised or hereby intimated to advice your clients about this situation/development and send us the instructions for filing the above statement by filling form 27. Incase if you / your clients' holds any granted Indian Patents, please reply to this email with a request to send you the necessary format.

In & on behalf of
Leonov Alexandr

Samir Rahman (IPProlaw)