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I missed a patent deadline. Is anything possible?
Which Indian deadlines have a cure, and which should be treated as final.
Treat this as fatal unless advised otherwise.
Whether the general extension power reaches the examination request is unsettled, sources conflict, and the safe working assumption is that it does not.
- Confirm which period applied: thirty-one months for filings on or after 15 March 2024, forty-eight months for earlier ones.
- Take advice immediately - the facts and dates matter.
- Note that the application has probably published, so refiling the same subject matter faces your own disclosure as prior art.
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