A patent is one of the important Intellectual Property Rights (IPR). To facilitate Patent Search and Filing Patent Applications, the Rajiv Gandhi Science and Technology Commission has set up a Patent Information Centre (PIC) for the State of Maharashtra. This facility is supported by the Department of Science & Technology, Government of India, New Delhi, as a part of the national initiative to provide help to scientists, technologists, researchers, innovators, R&D establishments, entrepreneurs, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and individuals in the State who wish to protect their innovations by filing patents.

Main Functions of PIC are as follows:

The instructions and Inventor Disclosure Form can be downloaded from here
Instructions to obtain Search Report
INVENTION DISCLOSURE FORM

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