FY 2025-26 Controller Decisions at the Indian Patent Office: A Pictographic Annual Summary (April 2025 – March 2026)

Over the past year we’ve been tracking and analysing Controller Decisions issued by the Indian Patent Office, publishing a monthly pictographic summary for April, May, June, July and August 2025 (September was skipped).   

With the full Indian financial year – April 2025 through March 2026 – now complete, this post pulls all twelve months together into a single annual view.

This is 21,030 Controller Decisions analysed across the year, drawn from ipindia.gov.in’s published decisions data, cleaned and categorised using the same standardised methodology across every month (so the annual figures below are directly comparable across the year, even where a few numbers differ slightly from what was originally published in the individual monthly posts for April-September).

Rather than repeat all the monthly charts here, this post focuses on headline, year-level charts. For the granular month-by-month detail – jurisdiction breakdowns, top applicants by city, daily filing trends, and more – each month’s full chart set is available as a downloadable PDF at the end of this post. 

FY 2025-26 at a Glance

• Total decisions analysed: 21,030
• Unique applicants: 8,932
• Busiest month: March 2026 (4,128 decisions)
• Quietest month: August 2025 (831 decisions)
• First half (Apr-Sep 2025): 6,715 decisions
•  Second half (Oct 2025-Mar 2026): 14,315 decisions

Key Stats

• Controller Decisions per Month – FY 2025-26: Monthly decision volume more than doubled over the course of the year, climbing from roughly 1,000-1,300 a month in the first quarter to over 4,100 in March 2026 alone.
• Decisions by Jurisdiction – FY 2025-26: Delhi (35.2%) and Chennai (34.1%) together account for around seven in ten decisions for the year, with Mumbai at 23.1% and Kolkata at 7.6%.
• Application Type Distribution – FY 2025-26:   Ordinary applications (50.4%) and PCT National Phase applications (41.8%) dominate, together accounting for over 92% of all decisions.
• Section and Outcome Analysis – FY 2025-26: Where an explicit outcome was stated in the decision text: 718 Grants, 295 under Section 25, 291 Refusals, and 231 under Rule 77. The large majority of decisions (92.7%) did not carry one of these explicit markers in the extracted text and fall under “Other.” 
• Monthly Decisions by Jurisdiction – FY 2025-26:  All four jurisdictions grew over the year, but the growth is not even – Delhi and Chennai’s share of the increase is visibly larger than Mumbai and Kolkata’s, especially from December 2025 onward.
• Top 25 Applicants – FY 2025-26 (All Jurisdictions): Qualcomm Incorporated leads the year with 736 decisions, followed by Huawei Technologies (485), Samsung Electronics (352 + 170 under a second name-variant entry), Microsoft Technology Licensing (291), and Google LLC (261).
• Filed-Year Distribution – FY 2025-26: The bulk of this year’s decisions relate to applications filed in 2021-2023 (a combined 12,284 decisions, ~58% of the year’s total), reflecting the Patent Office’s typical examination-to-decision lag.
• Application Types by Jurisdiction – FY 2025-26: The Ordinary/PCT NP mix varies by jurisdiction – worth a look if you’re tracking filing strategy by office.