The Indian Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has notified the applicants/agents to verify the Cash Book Receipts (CBRs) issued by IPO to ensure that payments intended for certain documents have actually been attributed to such documents.
The said notification is issued as in certain cases it was noted that either intentionally or erroneously excess payments were made in favor of Patent Office, by the Applicants or Agents, leading to unaccounted amount in the Government account.
All the Agents and Applicants are further directed to bring any error in the CBR to the notice of the Patent Office immediately.