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India IP, in working detail.
Filing and prosecution guides, practice notes, and commentary on how IP operations should actually run. Written for foreign associates, portfolio managers and corporate IP teams instructing work in India.
In preparation. 12 of 12 pieces are in draft and awaiting professional review. Nothing here is legal advice, and legal specifics are marked for verification before publication.
PCT national phase entry in India: what to send, and what happens next
How a national phase instruction becomes a filed Indian application — the information required, the order of events, and where matters usually slip.
Jidoka · updated 2026-08-30Convention patent filings in India
Filing in India within the convention period: the priority-derived deadline, the documents, and what the preparation window has to contain.
Jidoka · updated 2026-08-30Responding to a First Examination Report
What happens between an FER landing and a response being filed — the reporting, the instruction, the drafting, and the decisions that need a professional.
Jidoka · updated 2026-08-30Trademark filing in India: classes, specifications and what to send
Getting an Indian trademark application right at filing — the applicant details, the specification, and the choices that are harder to fix later.
Jidoka · updated 2026-08-30Indian Patent Office: practice notes for foreign associates
A standing note on Patent Office practice as it affects foreign-originating filings — maintained rather than published once.
Jidoka · updated 2026-08-30Trade Marks Registry: hearings and opposition practice
A standing note on Registry practice in contested and hearing matters, maintained with dated entries.
Jidoka · updated 2026-08-30Agentic docketing: hard schema for legal truth, soft schema for operational context
Why a docket that runs the work has to be built in two layers, and what goes wrong when they are collapsed into one.
Jidoka · updated 2026-08-30Deadlines are calculated, not inferred
Why statutory dates belong to a rules engine rather than a model, and what the agent is actually for.
Jidoka · updated 2026-08-30Client playbooks: encoding how your organisation actually operates
Standing instructions belong in the matter, not in somebody's memory of a thread from eight months ago.
Jidoka · updated 2026-08-30What an AI-native law firm actually has to mean
Buying software is not the same as being built around it. The difference shows up in what the firm can stop doing.
Jidoka · updated 2026-08-30What to send us with an India instruction
A checklist by matter type. Send what you have — the gaps get identified on intake, not at the deadline.
Jidoka · updated 2026-08-30Instructing JidokaIP: a foreign associate FAQ
How the working relationship runs — instructions, fees, reporting, conflicts and who is responsible for what.
Jidoka · updated 2026-08-30
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