IPR Acts - Renewal Times and Fees

IPR Act	Application Fee	Duration of Right	Renewal Due Date	Renewal Duration, Renewals	Renewal/Extension Fee	Special Cases
PA	If Natural Person then R1000, If Other than Natural Person then R1000*4	0+2Y	2Y-x	+1Y/2Y, =Y20	If Natural Person then Y3 to Y6=R500/Y, Y7 to Y10=R1,500/Y, Y11 to Y15=R3,000/Y, Y16 to Y20=R5,000/Y, If Other than Natural Person then Yn¢=Yn*4, where n=3 to 20	If Pages>30 then +R100/Page, If Claims>10 then +R200/Claim, If Other than Natural Person then R400/Page, +R800/Claim
CRA	R50/W, R400/W related to Goods	L+50Y,	ø	ø	ø	If Author is Anonymous then Duration of Right=0+50Y
DA	R1000	0+10Y	Duration of Right-x	+5Y, 1	R2,000	Ø
TMA	If TM then R2500/C, If Collective Mark/Certification Mark then R10,000	0+10Y,	Duration of Right     -/+6M* *If +6M then Renewal Fee = +R3000 Surcharge	+10Y, ∞	Same TM, Series TM = R5,000 Collective Mark, Certification Mark=R10,000 1 TM>1 Class =R5,000/Class,	ø
GIA	R5000	0+10Y	Duration of Right -/+6M** **If +6M then Renewal Fee = +R3,500 Surcharge	+10Y, ∞	Proprietor=R3,000, Authorized User=R1,000	ø

n Patent Year if Natural Person  n¢  Patent year if Other  than Natural Person x Any time unit CRA Copyright Act, 1957 DA Designs Act, 2000 GIA Geographical Indication of  Goods Act, 1999 IPR Intellectual Property Right L Life of author M Month PA Patent Act, 1970 R Indian Rupees TM Trademark TMA Trademarks Act, 1999 W Work Y Year 0 Priority Date ø None § Section ∞ Perpetuity < Before > More than – Minus + Plus / Per, Or = Equals, Upto

IPR Related Treaty/Act - Renewal Times and Fees

t Given year x Any time unit BDA Biodiversity Act, 2002 IPR Intellectual Property Right PBR Plant Breeders’ Rights PVPFR Protection of Plant Variety and Farmers’ Rights Act, 2001 R Indian Rupees SA Seeds Act, 1966 SICLDR Semiconductor Integrated Circuit Layout Design Act, 2000 T Tree V Vine Y Year 0 Priority date ø None ∞ Perpetuity / Per, Or + Plus – Minus

IPR Related Treaty/Act	Subject Matter	Application Fee	Duration of Storage/Right	Extension/ Approval Due Date	Approval/Extension Period, Extensions	Renewal/ Approval Fee
Budapest Treaty	Microorganism storage for patent procedure	ø	0+30Y, 0+5Y	Duration of Storage -x	1Y+, ∞	R2,000/Y
BDA	IPR including PBR, non-local communities’ commercialization or biosurvey of plants, animals or microorganisms	R500	Ø	Prior to obtaining IPR/Commercialization. Benefit or royalty sharing may be condition to approval.	Ø	Ø
PVPFR	Plants, Farmers	If Extant then R1,000, If Derivative then R5,000/R7,000/R10,000, If §2j(iii) then R2000/R7000/ R10,000	If T/V then 0+9Y, If Extant §5 SA/Other then 0+6Y	Duration of Right-x	If T/V then +1Y, =Y18, If Extant §5 SA/Other then +1Y,=Y15	Individual= R5,000/Y, Educational= R7,000/Y, Corporate= R10,000/Y
SICLDR	Integrated Circuits	R5000	0+10Y	Ø	Ø	Ø

PATENT INTEREST IN YOUNG ENGINEERS 

-Ganesh Subramainam, IP Dome

At Sairam Engineering

            The IP Dome team visited several department projects at Sairam Engineering College (Sairam), including projects of the departments of Instrumentation and Control Engineering (ICE), Electrical and Instrumentation Engineering (EIE), Information Technology (IT), Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE), Electrical and Electronics Engineering (EEE), Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Production. 

Sample Sairam Projects

            Overall Sairam students were extremely eager on demonstrating the real world applicability of their projects. For example, one Civil Engineering Project we looked at was on using new materials comprising chopped mats for pothole repair. Another Civil Engineering project used a novel combination of cement, amino silica and peridotite to be used in road structures to absorb carbon monoxide. In the ECE department the students showed us a vertical takeoff aircraft project for multipurpose surveillance. We also observed an ultrasound image-processing project to be used to select dense wood trees. In the Mechanical Engineering department we viewed the results of a novel thermal barrier coating developed to reduce heat loss in IC engines. 

            Many projects were prototypes requiring additional work. Others could be applied to market directly. For example, a voice based object recognition tool developed by the IT department is to be used at Andhra Bank branches to aid the visually challenged in detecting currency notes.

IP Dome Insights

1. Disappointingly, some projects were completely lacking in real world usage and application.
2. Many of the projects we saw were at the proof of concept stage. Almost none were market ready.
3. Some of the inventions were currently outliers to the trend requiring several iterations to be market ready. For example, as determined by IP Dome, wearable computing is in trend since 2009. There, for the IT department project of blind vision object and character recognition system to be commercially exploitable, even if market ready, further work needs to be done.
4. Many of the projects would more likely be patentable if the students coordinated their work with specialists and professionals in the field. For instance IP Dome can assist in connecting students with service specialists in telemedicine, as well inform students on government regulatory mechanisms which need to be followed.
5. Another area IP Dome can assist is by collaborating and sharing information among Sairam’s several departments. For example, IP Dome can work to integrate the findings of the Mechanical Engineering with the findings of the EIE magnetic crawling robot
6. Finally, some of the projects would gain if they considered a broader scope of technology applications. For example, the EIE cadaver management system, would find greater chances of patentability if it also considered diverse applications such as car parking, hotel reservations, hospital bed allocation, etc.

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