India’s Office of the Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks (CGPDTM) has notified users that scheduled maintenance of its copyright e-services has been completed, with online filing, public search and e-register services fully restored from 6:00 p.m. on 12 May 2026. For applicants and representatives, the immediate task is practical rather than theoretical: check pending filings, any deadline arrangements linked to the outage, and the accuracy of system records once the portal is back in operation.The notice comes as CGPDTM is also promoting recent gains in patent...

IP India has issued an urgent alert after technical problems at the Bharatkosh payment gateway disrupted parts of its electronic filing services and left some applications without a proper post-payment status update. The office said the system was upgraded on 26 May and advised applicants facing payment anomalies to retain payment receipts, application details and transaction records, then contact the office promptly rather than assuming the filing has settled correctly.This is the kind of short operational notice that can still create real procedural trouble. When payment goes through but...

On 9 July 2026, India’s Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and IP Australia signed an access agreement for the Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL) as part of the outcomes announced at the third India–Australia Annual Summit. Under the TKDL access framework, Australian patent examiners may use the database on a confidential basis for search and examination, drawing on a large body of documented traditional medicine formulations and related literature. IP Australia had already referred to TKDL as a non-patent literature resource in its examination guidance; the new...