Legal references
Every date Ragulika calculates rests on one of these.
RULE
Patents (Amendment) Rules, 2024
Patents (Amendment) Rules, 2024
Reduced the period for requesting examination to 31 months, widened the power to extend and condone, moved the working statement to a three-financial-year cycle, and introduced maintainability screening for pre-grant oppositions.
RULE
Patents Rules, 2003 (as amended)
Patents Rules, 2003
The rules made under the Act. Most procedural periods are fixed here, and most of those may be extended or a delay in meeting them condoned.
STATUTE
General Clauses Act, 1897
Act No. 10 of 1897
Governs how periods are counted. A month is a calendar month, not thirty days, and a period running "from" a date excludes that date.
STATUTE
Patents Act, 1970
Act No. 39 of 1970
The principal Act governing patents in India. Where a period is fixed by the Act it cannot be extended.