Filing
Fresh Indian design applications and convention design filings claiming priority. Jidoka checks the representations and applicant data against the filing requirements, returns the fees and identifies anything missing before you authorise.
Design services
Design Services in India
Indian design applications handled from intake through documentation, docketing, professional review, filing and reporting — with the representations, formalities and renewal dates held on one continuously monitored record.
Formalities and prosecution
Design matters live or die on formalities — representation quality, views, novelty statements, classification. Objections create events with deterministic response dates, and the outstanding requirement stays visible until it is resolved rather than sitting in a thread.
- 01Formalities objections and responses
- 02Representation and view requirements
- 03Novelty statement and classification
- 04Hearings where required
- 05Withdrawal, amendment and refiling decisions
Recordals, renewals and portfolio coordination
Renewal dates, assignments, ownership changes and design-family groupings are coordinated on the same docket, so a design portfolio spanning several product lines reports as one coherent position.
- Renewals and extension of copyright term
- Assignment and ownership recordals
- Change of name and address
- Design family and product-line taxonomy
How a design matter runs
Design matters turn on formalities — representations, views, classification — so those are checked at intake rather than discovered under objection.
- Instruction
- Docket opened
- Representations checked
- Requirements checked
- Fees returned
- You authorise
- Professional review
- Filed
- Formalities window
- Report and invoice
- Ongoing monitoring
Portfolio transfers
An existing Indian portfolio can be moved across without waiting for a new filing. We review the existing matters, reconstruct and reconcile the docket, identify upcoming deadlines, review prosecution history, capture outstanding actions and record your client-specific instructions — then bring every matter into the same continuously monitored system used for new work. Transfer the portfolio once; stop rebuilding its history every time something happens.
Defined work. Defined fees.
A standard filing is not an unknowable event, and neither is much of recurring prosecution. For defined work you should know what is included, what it costs, what the official fee is, what information is required and what happens next — before the work begins. For larger portfolios and foreign associate relationships we can establish standing fee schedules and agreed workflows. One matter or one hundred: the more structured the relationship, the less each instruction has to start from zero.
Questions
What instructing teams ask.
Can foreign law firms and corporate IP teams instruct JidokaIP directly?
Yes. Send the instruction by email as you would to any associate. JidokaIP operates as an India execution layer for international IP firms, foreign patent attorneys, corporate IP departments and portfolio teams.
Is Jidoka an attorney?
No. Jidoka is an agentic operating intelligence. Professionals make the legal decisions. Jidoka makes sure the operation keeps moving.
Do we need to adopt a portal or new software?
No. Your email is the operating input. There is no portal for your team to learn, no spreadsheet to maintain and no duplicate data entry.
How are deadlines calculated?
Deterministically, from the triggering event and the statutory or internal rule that governs it. The calculation is inspectable and versioned. Rules protect the deadline. Jidoka runs the work around it.
Can we set standing instructions for our portfolio?
Yes. Reminder cadence, reporting recipients, escalation contacts, PO rules, billing entities, cost approvals, signature routes and naming conventions can all be recorded in your client playbook and applied to every matter automatically.
Will we know what defined work costs before it begins?
For defined filing work you receive the professional fee, the applicable official fee, the filing requirements, anything missing and the next step before you authorise. Standing fee schedules can be agreed for recurring work and larger portfolios.
Begin
Send one instruction and watch it become a matter.
No portal, no onboarding, no data entry. Email the instruction the way you already work, and see what the docket does with it.