The Missing Status Between Grant of Patent and Its Upload – Can IPO Borrow a Page From USPTO’s Playbook?
In 𝘝𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘹 𝘗𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘷. 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘗𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 (Delhi High Court, April 2025), a pre-grant opposition was filed after the Controller had signed the patent grant order, but before this order was uploaded to the IPO website. On November 28, 2023, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁. After this signing but before the order […]