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India’s Rising Role in Global Intellectual Property Landscape: WIPI 2024 Report

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has released its World Intellectual Property Indicators (WIPI) 2024 report. This report marks important trends in global intellectual property (IP) filings. Notably,...

November 13, 2024

Wormivet: Herbal Medication developed by NIF to treat worms

The National Innovation foundation India has developed an indigenous herbal medicine called Wormivet. It is an alternative to chemical methods that are currently being used to treat worms....

April 12, 2020

Intellectual Property Index: India ranks 40th

On February 5, 2020, the Global Innovation Policy Centre (GIPC) of the US Chamber of Commerce released the International IP (Intellectual Property) Index. According the ranking, India was...

February 6, 2020

GoI new scheme: Rs 400 crores for testing MSME Defense products

The Government of India is planning to launch a new scheme to test defense products manufactured by MSMEs. In order to achieve this, the Ministry of Defence has...

November 23, 2019

DRDO offers free access to its 450 patents

The Defense Research and Defense Organization has allowed free access to its 450 patents. The organization intends to provide a boost to domestic industries, especially startups and the...

November 22, 2019

GI Website & Tutorial Video on IPR Launched

Union Minister for Commerce and Industries Suresh Prabhu has launched the tutorial video on Intellectual Property Rights and the GI website. Tutorial Video on IPR The tutorial video has...

March 10, 2019

Patents granted by India up by 50% in 2017: WIPO

According to World Intellectual Property Indicators 2018 report released by United Nation’s World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), number of patents granted by India shot up by 50% in...

December 5, 2018

Indian Pharma companies rank 19th in Biopharmaceutical Competitiveness & Investment (BCI) Survey

Indian pharmaceutical companies have ranked low at 19th position with an overall score of 59 out of 100 among in the Biopharmaceutical Competitiveness & Investment (BCI) Survey. The...

October 8, 2016

Union Government opens Tatkal like channel to speed up patent grant process

Union Government has opened a special Tatkal like window to expedite examination process of patent applications by start-ups as well as of entities choosing India for filing the...

May 18, 2016

CGPDTM issues revised patent guidelines for Computer Related Inventions

The Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trademarks (CGPDT) has issued an order excluding software patents in its revised guidelines for Computer Related Inventions (CRIs). The new order...

February 23, 2016

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