Saturday, January 24, 2015

The first step

Finally ordered four class three digital signature certificate from e mudra.
This was a very convenient transaction completed Via their website www.emudra.com, where I filled up my details, the requirement, and online payment through the State Bank Of India portal.
The cost of class three digital signature certificate for one year with USB token was 2826 INR.
The filled up application form came to my email and I had to attach my passport size photo, sign at appropriate place and attach a photo id and an address proof document. The photo copies were to be self attested. Now these documents will be collected from my door step within 72 hours.

Thursday, January 1, 2015

Day after day one.

I finally thought of seriously considering getting patent for my ideas. I have titled this as day more than one because I have been trying to get patent for long and making various attempts to do so.

1. visiting the online e-patent portal of Controller General of Patents Designs and Trademarks and trying to register from the link provided at the homepage, but to no benefit and I could never register.
2. I tried to create digital signature myself using free service providers which I reached by using Google search. Later I learned that only specific service providers are allowed and authorised to distribute digital signatures. The manual at this link also emphasizes the same.

Now decided to get a digital signature certificate class 3 level I contacted a Charted accountant in my city who had earlier filed my income tax. I guess the reader also can seek support from their CA. My CA offered digital certificate from two companies (n)code and TCS which are mentioned in the manual , and additionally emudra which is not mentioned in the manual provided by the  Controller General of Patents Designs and Trademarks.
So, I decided to go with nCode as this was cheaper than TCS. Now I had to provide PAN card, Address proof, a photograph and a form to be filled to get class three digital signature from ncode via my Charted Accountant.