INDIA: Patent Office decisions now in public domain

Regular readers know that I am all for transparency in the Indian Patent Office, more so on its procedure towards opposition decisions.

The Indian Patent Office has taken a positive step in this regard and decided to put Opposition decisions on-line. NOW, the Indian Patent Office decisions are 'purportedly' available for every one to read and download.

Please visit this link on the Indian Patent Office's site.
Upon visiting the link, you will see a page that allows searching by 6 options:
a) Patent number;
b) Application number;
c) Applicant;
d) Opponent;
e) Controller &
f) Section number.

Now, I know that quite a few of you will visit the site and revert back to me saying that the site does NOT work.
Well, yes, it does not work completely now
BUT
it does give you a sense of the applications upon which the decision has been issued.

FOR e.g. when you search by opponent name [India's largest generic player], you will note that there are 9 clickable hyperlinks. So, you know that there are at least nine decisions involving this major player.
BUT, if you click on any of the hyper links, you will not get the actual decision copy [as yet] due to some 'technical reason'. This happens from both Internet Explorer and Mozilla.

So, at least this is a start. I am sure that the Indian Patent Office will resolve the technical problem very soon and all decisions will be readable/ downloadable, directly from the site.

Will keep you readers posted as soon as I get any concrete information on the technical solutions.