Conditions necessary in India to deposit biological material in the international depository authority

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Conditions necessary in India to deposit biological material in the international depository authority

If the invention, for which application for patent is filed, uses a new biological material it is essential to deposit the same in the International Depository Authority (IDA) in order to supplement the description. In India, the following two institutes have acquired the status of an international depositary authority:

The Institute of Microbial Technology (IMTECH) located at Chandigarh is the International Depository Authority in India.
International Depositary Authority, Microbial Culture Collection (MCC), National Centre for Cell Science (NCCS), University of Pune Campus, Ganeshkhind, Pune-411007, Maharashtra.

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