Tackling India's patent delays

While patent office delays and the excessive backlog of pending patent applications at the Indian Patent Office (IPO) have been an issue of serious concern for a while, it is only recently that the problem has been seriously dealt with and exposed via two writ petitions before the Delhi High Court filed by Nitto Denko Corporation, a company based in Japan.

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