Filing
PCT national phase entry, convention applications and ordinary Indian filings. Jidoka checks the instruction against the filing requirements, returns the professional and official fees with anything missing clearly identified, and — once you authorise — opens the docket, applies the deadline rules and prepares the package for professional review.
Prosecution
First Examination Report responses, amendments, written submissions and hearings. When an FER arrives, the event is written to the docket, the response deadline is calculated from the rule, the reporting workflow fires and a reminder sequence opens against your instructions. The drafting and the strategy stay with the patent professional; the operational sequence around them does not depend on anyone remembering it.
- FER responses and amendments
- Written submissions
- Hearings and hearing preparation
- Divisional and further applications
- Pre-grant and post-grant oppositions
- Working statements and periodic filings
Post-grant and portfolio work
Renewals, recordals, assignments, changes of ownership and address, licence recordals and post-grant maintenance run through the same docket as prosecution — one matter record supporting several parallel workstreams rather than several disconnected files.
- Renewals and annuities
- Assignment and ownership recordals
- Change of name and address
- Licence recordals
- Post-grant maintenance
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.