The Indian Patent Office has introduced E-filing of patent services way back in 2007 in order to ease the process of filing. Manual filing required submission of hard copies of all the required documents to the appropriate authority. This usually proved to be a long complicated process that was very time-consuming. With the introduction of e-filing, the process became more user-friendly and relatively faster. Though first introduced in the year 2007 e-filing has been made compulsory as per the Patent (Amendment) Rules 2016. Therefore, the Indian Patent office has not been accepting manual filing for patents with effect from 16th May 2016 . Please read more
