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WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization), the Indian Patent Office as an International Searching Authority (ISA) and International Preliminary Examining Authority (IPEA) under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT).

Recognition as ISA and IPEA would be beneficial for India in several respects. International applications filed with the WIPO under the PCT route to India for the search and preliminary examination would be income from fees as a rule to ISA and IPEA. The new status would allow Indian companies and inventors use patentability search and international preliminary examination report (IPER) and written responses to a much faster and cheaper.

India is the only English speaking country in the Asian region, as an ISA and IPEA. Austrian Patent Office, Australian Patent Office Canadian Intellectual Property Office, State Intellectual Property Office of the People's Republic of China, European Patent Office, Spanish Patent and Trademark Office, National Board of Patents and Registration of Finland, Japan Patent Office, Korean Intellectual Property Office, Federal Service for Intellectual Property, Patents and Trademarks (Russian Federation), Swedish Patent and Trademark Office and the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) are currently available as an International Searching Authority by the WIPO.

* WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) is a wing of the United Nations for the development of the international regime of intellectual property. Its headquarters is in Geneva, Switzerland. Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) is a sister Treaty of the Paris Convention by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). The PCT system facilitates filing of patent applications under one roof and provides for simplified procedures for search and examination of such applications. This allows a resident or national of a PCT member state to determine the effect of patent applications in any or all of the PCT countries and to shift the bulk of the costs of the rule by the filing of the submission.

PMGeorge Kutty, a lawyer of http://www.pmgip.com