Renewal docketing and payment
Every annuity from year 3 to year 20 calendared with staged reminders and paid on your standing instruction — including the advance-payment discount where it applies.
PATENT FILING SERVICE · MYCRAVE CONSULTANCY & SERVICES
Patent renewals, working statements & post-grant management
A granted patent is not a certificate to frame — it is an asset with a maintenance schedule. Renewal fees fall due every year from the third, the statement-of-working obligation recurs, and a single missed date can lapse rights that took years and real money to win. Post-grant management is where discipline quietly compounds.
WHAT THIS SERVICE IS
Understanding grant, renewals & working statements
Renewal fees keep an Indian patent in force year by year from the third year to the twentieth, rising as the patent ages. Miss a renewal and the patent lapses; restoration exists but is discretionary, time-boxed, and burdens you with proving the lapse was unintentional — while the world gains intervening rights in the gap. The entire risk is administrative, which is exactly why it should never materialise: our docketing runs every renewal with staged reminders and pays against your standing instruction, not against your memory. Where it helps, the Rules' discount for paying at least four years' renewals in advance electronically is applied.
India also asks patentees a question most jurisdictions do not: is the patent being worked? The statement of working (Form 27, filed on the current statutory cycle) is a public declaration of whether and how the invention is commercially worked in India. It matters beyond compliance — working statements are evidence in compulsory-licensing disputes and litigation, and careless answers have been quoted back at patentees in court. We prepare them accurately and on time, framed with the same care as any other document that may one day be read aloud to a judge.
Ownership and licensing changes belong on the register. Assignments, licences, mergers, name and address changes — each is recorded with the Patent Office so the register matches reality; an unrecorded assignment is a title defect that surfaces during diligence, funding rounds and enforcement, always at the least convenient time. We handle recordals as they happen, not as an annual clean-up.
Post-grant is also where your patent should start earning. A maintained, compliant, correctly-registered patent is a licensable asset — and through IP BANK India, MYCrave's commercialisation arm, valuation, licensing and transactions are one conversation away, working from a file that is already in order because the same ecosystem maintains it.
WHAT'S INCLUDED
Everything this engagement covers
Statements of working (Form 27)
Prepared with you, accurately and on the current statutory cycle, written in the knowledge that working statements are public and citable.
Portfolio dashboard
One schedule across all your patents and applications — what is due, what was paid, what is filed — visible to you, not locked in our systems.
Assignments, licences & recordals
Ownership changes, licences, and name or address recordals filed with the Patent Office so the register always matches reality.
Lapse response and restoration
If a patent inherited from elsewhere has lapsed, we assess restoration honestly — the window, the evidence needed, the intervening-rights consequences — and act fast where action is possible.
Commercialisation handover
When you want the patent to earn, the file moves to IP BANK India for valuation and licensing without a diligence scramble — it is already clean.
WHO THIS IS FOR
You'll recognise yourself here
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Patentees whose renewals are currently tracked in a spreadsheet, a mailbox, or one employee's memory
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Companies consolidating renewals and recordals scattered across multiple agents
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Licensors and licensees who need working statements and register entries that stand up to scrutiny
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Successors and acquirers inheriting patents whose maintenance history needs repair
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Universities and institutions maintaining granted portfolios their IP Cells produced
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HOW IT RUNS
The process, step by step
Audit
Your granted patents and pending applications are audited: what is due, what is overdue, what is unrecorded.
Docket
Every renewal, working statement and known deadline goes into one calendar with staged reminders.
Maintain
Renewals are paid, Form 27s filed and recordals made as standing work — you approve, we execute, you see the record.
Commercialise
When you are ready, the maintained portfolio moves to IP BANK India for valuation and licensing — the file already diligence-clean.
A note on timelines: How long each stage takes varies with the invention, the route you choose and the Patent Office's workload — your specialist gives you a current, honest estimate at the start, and updates it as the file moves.
WHERE IT GOES WRONG
The mistakes this service exists to prevent
The spreadsheet that retires with the employee
Renewal tracking that lives in one person's inbox fails the day that person leaves. Twenty years is longer than most jobs — docketing has to be institutional.
Treating Form 27 as a checkbox
Working statements are public documents cited in compulsory-licence fights and litigation. "Not worked" written carelessly, or claims of working without support, both create exposure.
Leaving assignments off the register
An unrecorded change of ownership is invisible to the register — and to the court, the acquirer and the licensee's diligence team. Record changes when they happen.
Relying on restoration
Restoration after a lapse is discretionary, evidence-heavy and leaves intervening rights behind even when it succeeds. It is an emergency procedure, not a safety net to plan around.
SERVICE FAQ
Asked about grant, renewals & working statements
A question of your own?
Ask it on WhatsApp — a member of the patent team replies, not a bot.
Ask on WhatsAppWhat do renewals cost across the full term?
The government schedule rises with the patent's age — the fee calculator on this site shows the per-year amounts for your category and the 20-year total at current rates, including the discount for paying four or more years in advance electronically. Professional handling is quoted separately and itemised, as with everything we do.
What happens if I've already missed a renewal?
Timing decides everything. Within the grace and restoration windows there are routes back, each with conditions and consequences — including intervening rights that survive restoration. Send us the patent number and the missed date today rather than after the window closes; the honest options shrink by the month.
Do I have to file a working statement even if the patent isn't being used?
The obligation to file applies either way — the statement declares whether the invention is worked and, where it is not, that fact is stated. Accuracy matters more than optics: the answers are public and can be cited in compulsory-licensing and enforcement contexts. We help you state the true position in the right words.
Can you take over patents another firm has been maintaining?
Yes — consolidation is routine. We audit the file, verify every upcoming date independently rather than trusting the handover sheet, record the change of agent, and give you one schedule for the whole portfolio.
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Hand the calendar to a team built for it. Send us your patent numbers and we will audit the deadlines — including the ones your current tracking has wrong.