Indian Patent Office has grants 1,03,057 patents in FY 2023-24
Indian Patent Office has grants 1,03,057 patents in FY 2023-24
Patent Office has granted 1,03,057 patents in FY 2023-24. Various steps taken by the Government to further strengthen the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) ecosystem in India are as under:
1. Modernization of IP offices using IT enabled and advanced technologies:
All documents filed before the Patent Office are completely digitized and are made available online for proceedings leading to final disposal. Resultantly, applicants need not visit Patent & Trade Marks Offices for filing, processing and getting Patent and Trademark grant/registration certificates.
2. Fees Incentives
Year
Startups
Small Entity
Educational institutes (EI)
(SU)
(SE)
Indian
Foreign
Indian
Foreign
Indian
Foreign
2018-19
801
10
607
75
Fees
Concession
was given in Sep 2021
2019-20
1650
2
576
272
2020-21
1598
13
744
53
2021-22
1482
19
985
384
7405
96
2022-23
2016
25
1329
429
19155
275
2023-24
2546
25
3421
128
23306
237
Similarly, 75% fee concessions at each stage of prosecution of Design applications are extended to startups and MSMEs and 50% to Trade Mark application filing.
3. Awareness in IPR and Recognition & Rewards to Top IP Achievers:
National Intellectual Property Awareness Mission (NIPAM) was launched in December 2021 to impart IP awareness and basic training in educational institutes across the country and as a consequence, more than 2 million persons have been trained about IPRs so far. Also, IP awards have been conferred every year to recognize and reward the top achievers and many among them were also invited as special guests to Government of India in the Republic Day Celebration 2024 to recognise their efforts.
4. Scheme for Facilitating Start-Ups Intellectual Property Protection (SIPP)
SIPP scheme was launched in 2016 to support startups in safeguarding their IP rights (Patents, Trademarks and Designs) by providing opportunity to avail pro bono facilitation by empanelled IP experts and facilitation fees of the IP experts to be borne by the Government. After the scheme, there has been a significant increase in IP applications by startups. Details about IP filing by startups are as under:-
IP
Increase in filing in last 6 years (2017-18 to 2023-24)
Patents
355%
Trade Marks
543%
5. Capacity Building:
To address liquidation of the backlog applications, technical manpower strength in Patent office has increased by promoting various officers to the post of Controllers in the Patent office, and further, young professionals and technical assistants were engaged on contractual basis to support Controller’s decision making. This has resulted in granting more than 1 lakh patents in a single year 2023-24.
The requisite details are as follows:
Year
No. of GI Applications Registered
2022-23
55
2023-24
160
As on June 23, 2024, the Office of Geographical Indications Registry has registered a total of 643 GI Applications in the country.
This information has been provided by the Union Minister of State for Commerce and Industry, Shri Jitin Prasada in a written reply in the Lok Sabha today.
- Owing to fee concessions in patents applications, there has been a significant increase in Patent filings by Startups, MSMEs and Educational Institutes and same is as under: