Patents Act, 1970 · Chapter XXI — Patent Agents
Section 130: Removal from register of patent agents and restoration
Text of section 130
(1) The Controller may remove the name of any person from the register when he is satisfied, after giving that person a reasonable opportunity of being heard and after such further inquiry, if any, as he thinks fit to make—
(i) that his name has been entered in the register by error or on account of misrepresentation or suppression of material fact;
(ii) that he has been convicted of any offence and sentenced to a term of imprisonment or has been guilty of misconduct in his professional capacity which in the opinion of the Controller renders him unfit to be kept in the register.
(2) The Controller may, on application and on sufficient cause being shown, restore to the register the name of any person removed therefrom.
All sections of the Patents Act, 1970
Text of the Patents Act, 1970 as amended up to 2024, from the consolidated version published by the Office of the Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks (IP India). Reproduced under section 52(1)(q) of the Copyright Act, 1957. Check the official text before relying on it.