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There has been a significant reduction in pendency of intellectual property applications, including patents and trademarks, with the adoption of the national IPR policy, a top Government official has said.
Secretary in the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) Ramesh Abhishek said that disposal of patent applications has increased sharply by 58 per cent in 2017-18 as compared to the previous fiscal.
Citing an example, he said, India has granted patent in just 113 days from the date of filing of the request for examination.
Abhishek was speaking at the 58th Series of the Meetings of the General Assembly of WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organisation) on September 24 in Geneva.
“Since the adoption of the National IPR Policy in 2016, there has been considerable reduction in pendency of IP applications and increase in disposal and examination due to large-scale augmentation of manpower in Indian IP offices,” he has said.