Indian Patent full text

India is one of the leading destinations for business hubs. A lot of companies are protecting their Intellectual Property (patent) in India.  Indian Patent Office has made the Patent Database public to view the Patents. The searching of Indian Patents is very restrictive as I have posted about it in another post.  The patent office has tried to make the full text of Indian patents available to public free of cost. This facility is available to the patent number from 1 – 1,69,500 (patent applications filed and accepted for grant mostly prior to 1992).

Regrettably till date, the full texts of recent patents are not available to public freely. These can only be obtained from Indian Patent Office by payment basis.

Link:

http://ipindia.nic.in/

http://pfc.org.in/fac/fac.htm

Indian Patent Office Databases

Indian patent office provides the online patent searching.

·         Public Search for granted Patents: provides the patent no. search and provides full text of Indian Patents. This search has been categorized in following sections:

§   Public Search for Patents (No. 1 – 80000)

§   Public Search for Patents (No. 80001 to 1,53,697)

§   Public Search for Patents (No.1,53,698 to 1,69,500)

§   Public Search for Patents (New Records )

·          Patent Search for 18th Month Publications: provides the search facility for published patent application after 18 month and also for early publications.

·         Controller’s Decision for Search: provides the controller’s decision search.

The search features are very restricted, still we hope in coming days we will be having better options.

Indian patent search databases

Indian patent office provides the bibliographic information freely, but charge for full text. Indian patents can be search in following databases:

Ekaswa- A Database: Patent applications filed in India as published in the issues of the Gazette of India (Part III, Section 2) from January 1995 to December 2004.

Ekaswa-B Database: Patent applications notified for opposition in the Gazette of lndia (Part III, Section 2) published from January 1995 to December 2004.

Ekaswa-C Database: Patent applications published in official Journal of Patent office (18 month publications) published from January 2005 to Dec 2006.

NIC Patent Information: Provides free on line access to INPADOC-EPIDOS database to the registered users. The INPADOC-EPIDOS database is produced by the European Patent Office (EPO). It is possible to conduct bibliographic searches through this site.

India BigPatents: India BigPatents provides post TRIPS Indian patent applications and issued patents. The database is created by Professor together with Patrick Crosby of XB Labs LLC and bigpatents.com. According to BigPatents official website, the bulk of the data was parsed from the Indian patent journals, beginning with those published in January, 2005, using proprietary algorithms developed by XB Labs.

Patent Office Journal: Provides the bibliographic data published from 2005 onwrds.