Office of the Patent Information System, Nagpur

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.

Information of Patent Documentation at PIS

1.   
PATENT SEARCH TOOLS AVAILABLE AT PIS, NAGPUR

 

Sl. No.	Name of the Search Tool	Nature of Carrier	Contents	Range
1	INPADOC	MICROFICHE	Bibliographic data including title of patents from more than 70 countries	1968 To Aug. 1998
2	EPIDOC	CD-ROM (NDB/PFS/PCS)	Bibliographic data including title of patents from more than 70 countries	1998 To 2005
3	ESPACE/ACCESS ESPACE ACCESS-MIMOSA	CD-ROM	Bibliographic data and abstracts of EPO patents and Bibliographic data of PCT applications	1978 to July 2005
4	ESPACE –ACCESS EUROPE	CD-ROM	Bibliographic relating to patent application from BE, CH, LU, NL, UK, PT	1990 To Dec. 2004
5	EPC	CD-ROM	Bibliographic data from 29 member states	2005 To Sept. 2007
6	GLOBAL PAT	CD-ROM	Bibliographic data and abstracts of CH, DE, FR, EP, GB, US, and WO patents	1971 To May 2000
7	US-CAPS/APS	CD-ROM	Bibliographic data and abstracts of US patents	1975 To 2004
8	GAZETTE OF INDIA PART III Sec. (2)	PAPER	Notifications issued by the Patents Office regarding Indian Patents	1963 To Dec. 2004
9	PATENT ABSTRACT OF JAPAN (PAJ)	CD-ROM	Bibliographic data and abstracts of Japanese patents	1976 Onwards
10	BREF	CD-ROM	Bibliographic data and abstracts of FR, EP and WO,	1978 To Dec. 2007 (in French Language)

 

2.    PATENT DOCUMENTATION (FULL TEXT)

Name of the Country	Country Code	Name of Information Carrier	Range
United States of America	USAPAT	Microfilm CD/DVD-ROM	1951 To 1992 1836 onwards
United Kingdom	GB	Microfilm CD-ROM	1969 To 1992 1979 To 2008
European Patent Office	EP	Microfilm CD-ROM	1981 To 1984 1985 To 2005
WIPO -Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT)	WO	CD-ROM	1978  To 2007
Australia	AU	Microfiche CD-ROM	1975 To 1997, 1998 To 2004
India	IN	Paper	1912 To 1999 Patent No. ( 1 T0 182590)
Japan	JP	CD-ROM	1994 onwards (in Japanese Language)

3.  Patent Information Services
 

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.

Search Services || Patent Copy Supply Service
 

4.  Patent Search Services

Patent Search Services

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

List of Services

• State of Art Search
• Bibliographic Search
• English Equivalent Patent Search
• Equivalent Family Patent Search
• Assisted Search

Standard form for sending search request
 

State of Art Search

• Provides overview of the State of Art
• Provides bibliographic data and abstracts of patent documents retrieved.
• Charges : Rs. 2000+Rs. 20 per abstract of patent reported

Bibliographic Search

• Provides bibliographic data on patent documents retrieved
• One or more suitable search terms including Inventor name, applicant name, classification symbols are used
• Charges: Rs. 500+Rs. 5 /- per document reported

English Equivalent Patent Search

• English language equivalent patent for patents in Non-English language are located
• Charges: Rs. 50 /- for locating one English language equivalent patent

Patent Family Search

• Bibliographic details of the family member of a patent are reported
• Charges: Rs. 50/- per family member

Assisted Search

• users will be allowed to use databases,  CD-ROM,  Journal etc. subscribed by PIS Nagpur to conduct search
• General assistance in performing the search will be provided
• Charges ; Rs. 250/- per hour

Contact persons

Presently the office is headed by Mr. B. P. Singh,  
Deputy Controller of Patents & Designs
Tel: 0712 – 2542969 / 2540913, 922 / 2542961, 979

Fax : 0712 – 2540916

Smt. C. D. Satpute
Senior Documentation Officer
Tel: 0712- 2540913, 922/2542961, 979

 Fax : 0712 – 2542955 

Shri R.S. Rathor,

Senior Documentation Officer

Tel: 0712- 2540913, 922/2542961, 979

 Fax : 0712 – 2542955 

Administrative officer / DDO:

Shri. C.V.N. Girish, 

Reprography Officer

Tel: Tel: 0712- 2540913, 922/2542961, 979

 Fax : 0712 – 2542955 

For further details please contact at

National Institute for Intellectual Property Management
Government of India
Ministry of Commerce and Industry
Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion
Office of the Controller General of Patents, Designs, Trademarks

Plot No 03, Opposite M. S. Education Board office,
Hislop College Road, Civil lines,
Nagpur - 440001

Tel. Nos.  0712 - 2540913, 922/2542961, 979

Fax Nos. 0712 –2542955/2540916