Who are the persons entitled to apply for patents? I. Any person claiming to be true and first inventor…

Section 6(1) of the Patents Act, 1970 allows an application by the person claiming to be the true and first inventor, by "any person being the assignee of the person claiming to be the true and first inventor", and by the legal representative of a deceased person who was entitled to apply. An importer cannot apply as such: under section 2(1)(y) the true and first inventor "does not include either the first importer of an invention into India" or a person to whom it was first communicated from abroad.