The Patents (Amendment) Act, 2005, 15 of 2005, (Rep., Act 23 of 2016)

Section 49. For section 68 of the principal Act, the following section shall be substituted, namely:

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49. For section 68 of the principal Act, the following section shall be substituted, namely:— "68. An assignment of a patent or of a share in a patent, a mortgage, licence or the creation of any other interest in a patent shall not be valid unless the same were in writing and the agreement between the parties concerned is reduced to the form of a document embodying all the terms and conditions governing their rights and obligations and duly executed."

Source: India Code