Patents Act, 1992

Certificate of Controller and certified copies of documents to be evidence.

87.—(1) A certificate purporting to be under the hand of the Controller as to any entry, matter, or thing which he is authorized by this Act to do, or by any rules made thereunder, to make or do, shall be prima facie evidence of the entry having been made, and of the contents thereof, or, as may be appropriate, of the matter's or thing's having been done or left undone.

(2) Copies or extracts, purporting to be certified by the Controller or an officer of the Controller and sealed with the seal of the Controller, and purporting to be of or from applications for patents, patents, or other documents or books in the Office, or of or from registers kept there shall be admitted in any legal proceedings as prima facie evidence without further proof or production of the originals.