Foreign Filing Permission (FFP)
India is one of those countries where local inventors are supposed to obtain permission1 from its national Patent Office to either file or cause to file a patent application outside India, e.g., a direct patent filing in a foreign country or even a direct Patent Corporation Treaty (PCT) application.
Mr. Joginder Singh discusses about the requirements of Foreign filing permission in India is his latest Lexology article https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=20748c3a-30d8-4091-951d-a6cd4fb9cfee
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