The Office of the Controller General of Patents, Designs & Trade Marks (CGPDTM):
● It is located in Mumbai, under DIPP, Ministry of Commerce. So, option 1 is correct.
● Department of Commerce is another department under the Ministry of Commerce . So, option 3 is NOT correct.
● Patent:
◦ It is a set of exclusive rights granted by a sovereign state to an inventor or assignee for a limited period of time in exchange for detailed publicdisclosure of an invention.
◦ An invention is a solution to a specific technological problem and is a product or a process.
◦ Patents are a form of intellectual property .
◦ The Controller General supervises the working of the Patents Act, 1970 , as amended, the Designs Act, 2000 , and the Trade Marks Act, 1999.
◦ It also renders advice to the Government on matters relating to these subjects.
◦ In order to protect the Geographical Indications of goods, a Geographical Indications Registry has been established in Chennai to administer the Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act, 1999 under the CGPDTM.