Office of the Patent Information

Objectives: Government of India, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion established Patent Information System (PIS), in the year 1980 with the following objectives.

a. To obtain and maintain a comprehensive collection of patent specification and patent related literature on a world wide basis to meet the needs for technological information, of various users in R&D establishments, Government Organizations, Industries, Business, Inventors and other users.

b. To provide technological information contained in patents through, search services and patent copy supply service;

Functions: The PIS caters to user needs on the basis of patent documentation and computerized system for retrieval and dissemination of patent information.

1. PATENT SEARCH TOOLS AVAILABLE AT PIS, NAGPUR

Name of the Search Tool	Nature of Carrier	Contents	Range
ESPACE/ACCESS	CD-ROM	Bibliographic data and abstracts of EPO patents and Bibliographic data of PCT applications	1978 onwards
Patents Abstracts of Japan (PAJ)	CD-ROM	Bibliographic data and abstracts of Japanese patents	1976 onwards
MICROPATENT	DATABASE	Bibliographic data and abstracts of DE, EP, FR, GB, JP, US, WO/PCT	1971 onwards
EPC	CD-ROM	Bibliographic data from 29 member states of the EPO	2005 onwards
INPADOC	MICROFICHE	Bibliographic data including title of patents from more than 70 countries	1968 to Aug 1998
EPIDOS	CD-ROM (NDB /PFS PCS)	Bibliographic data including title of patents from more than 70 countries	1998 to 2005
GLOBALPAT	CD-ROM	Bibliographic data and abstracts of CH, DE, FR, EP, GB, US and WO patents	1971 to 1998
US-CAPS/APS	CD-ROM	Bibliographic data and abstracts of US patents	1975 to 2004
Gazette of India Part III Sec.(2)	PAPER	Notifications issued by the Patent Office regarding Indian patents	1963 to Dec 2004
ESPACE-ACCESS Europe	CD-ROM	Bibliographic data relating to patent application from BE, CH, LU, NL, UK, PT	1990 to Dec 2004

Name of the Country	Country Code	Nature of Information Carrier	Range
United States of America	US	CD-ROM	1836 onwards
United Kingdom	GB	CD-ROM	1979 onwards
European Patent Office	EP	CD-ROM	1985 onwards
WIPO-Patent Co-operation Treaty (PCT)	WO	CD-ROM	1978 onwards
Australia	AU	Microfiche	1975 onwards
India	IN	Paper	1912 onwards
Japan (Unexamined)	JP	CD-ROM	1994 onwards (in Japanese Language)

The PIS offers patent information services on payment of appropriate charges including postal charges for services provided by post. The payment may be made against a proforma invoice. Alternately the user may open an account with PIS under the subscribe advance payment (SAP) scheme of PIS.

In order to provide Patent Information Service to any interested person/organisation, PIS operates subscriber advance payment scheme. Under this scheme, users interested in availing regular service by way of procurement of Patent Information, may remit an amount of not less than Rs. 1,000/- or in multiples thereof and open an account in their names. On receipt of this payment, the user will be allotted a subscriber account number by office of the Patent Information System (PIS) Nagpur.

The amount towards the cost of services rendered by PIS will be adjusted against the advance payment made by the subscriber against his/her account number.

The service will be rendered by PIS, on receipt of written request from the subscriber either by letter, telefax or e-mail (paper copy in confirmation of e-mail duly signed is required). On providing the service, PIS will intimate to the subscriber, the cost of service rendered and the balance available in his/her account. If, at any time, the balance amount in the account of the subscriber falls short of Rs. 200/-, the subscriber will be informed of the same with a request to remit further amount immediately. The subscriber on receipt of such intimation has to remit the amount which shall not be less than Rs. 1,000/- at any time. If at any time the subscriber wants to deposit further amount in their account, such payment also should not be less than Rs. 1,000/-.

At the end of each financial year i.e. after 31st march of each year, PIS will issue a statement of account containing details of the amount received, cost of service rendered and the balance available subscriber will scrutinize the account and return a copy of the statement duly certifying the correctness of the account.

No special form is needed to open the above mentioned account. A request on plain paper clearly specifying that the user wishes to open an account under Subscriber Advance Payment Scheme alongwith payment as mentioned above is all that is needed.

All payments may be made in favour of Patent Information System, Nagpur, by way of Money Order, or Demand Draft drawn on a scheduled Bank at Nagpur

The search service may be availed by sending the search request in the standard format for search request.

Preliminary Technical Consultancy (for Individuals , R&D organizations , Institutes & Industries )

· Provides assessment of requirement of particular organization to solve their specific problem related to IPR & decide upon the IPR strategy to be adopted

Smt. C. D. Satpute
Senior Documentation Officer
Tel: 0712- 2511380 / 2510088 Fax : 0712 – 2512040 / 2510186