An inventor living in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh wants to file his patent application along with a demand…

Rule 6(1) of the Patents Rules, 2003 allows an application or other document to be "tendered by hand or sent by a letter addressed to the Controller" at the appropriate office "through post or registered post or speed post or by electronic transmission duly authenticated", and a posted document is deemed filed when it would have been delivered in the ordinary course of post. A private courier is not among these modes and gets no such treatment. The fee may be sent by bank draft payable to the Controller of Patents under rule 7.