Patents in India

Patents can be classified under three categories depending upon their priority claim.

1.      Ordinary patent application

2.      Conventional patent application

3.      PCT national phase patent application

Once a Patent Application is filed in India, depending upon unity of invention, the further applications relating to modification of the said Patent can be classified as follows:

      1.   Divisional Patent

      2.   Patent of Addition

Patents Specification can be classified under three categories depending upon their content.

       1.    Provisional Specification

       2.   Complete Specification

However, it is to be noted that all conventional and PCT national phase applications have to be filed with complete specification.