Priyam Lizmary Cherian

The Indian Patent Office in April 2026 rejected a patent application naming an AI system- Device for the Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Sentience (DABUS) as an inventor, citing inter alia that “AI-based non-human entity as an inventor is not permissible”, under the Patents Act. The decision comes after different fora in the US, EU, Australia…

The Draft Patents (Amendment) Rules, 2023 (Draft Rules[i]) published in August 2023 proposes amendments to several critical aspects of patent prosecution before the Indian Patent Office. One such aspect is the obligation on a patent applicant to file information about corresponding foreign patent applications within prescribed timeline as per Section 8 of the Patents Act, 1970.…