CURRENT TREND OF IPR LAW IN INDIA AND ITS DEVELOPMENT

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHT

Submitted By: Submitted To:

SHUBHAM NIWAS Mr. M. Srinivasan Murthy

Semester: VI ‘B’ Faculty, IPR

Roll No.: 598 NUSRL.

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF STUDY AND RESEARCH IN LAW,

RANCHI

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 INTRODUCTION
Global competitiveness has redefined business strategies worldwide and the focus has certainly
shifted to examining how our knowledge resources can reposition our stand in the world market.
It means that process of wealth creation is changing from resource based to knowledge based i.e.
it now depends on brainpower and our ability to create, to sell, to explain and to solve problems.
As a result, in future the wealth would more and more come out of our brains and less and less
will it come out of the ground. And the goods and services being created by our brainpower
would be marketed in the global village. Now a basic issue to be addressed is that how can this
property of knowledge be protected? And prior to this we need to think that how the knowledge
can be converted into property? Since knowledge is abstract and is not like a car or a house
which can be locked and secured against theft. If anyone gains knowledge it does not reduce that
available to others. There are two ways of turning knowledge into property. One way is secrecy,
which is used to protect three types of information, namely trade secrets, know – how and rituals.
Another way is Intellectual Property Laws, including Copyright, Patent, Registered Industrial
Design and Trademark, legislation and conventions.

This is the century of knowledge, and the century of the intellect. India has shown a
considerable growth in its research and development. The presence of well established state of
the art labs of Indian as well as multinational companies in the country has clearly proved the
Indian IP status in the world. The rise in Indian economy is a clear impact of Intellectual
Property (IP) influence in the country. By setting up new technology, incubation centers in
various parts of the country and providing financial aids to the technologist, the Research &
Development (R&D)status of the country has been boosted up. In recent years India has made
robust progress not only in implementing its obligations under the WTO Agreement on TRIPs
Rights, but also in developing its own IP regime which endeavors to balance the trade-off
between monopoly rights and free access to knowledge. Although no new IP laws have been
enacted over the last year, it would be wrong to say that there have been no parliamentary
developments with respect to intellectual property. What further legislation is necessary to bring
India’s IP regime up to international standards and recent efforts have been made to improve
enforcement of IP legislation in India?

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“Intellectual property rights are provided as a protection and incentive to the creators, whose
creativity could otherwise be freely used by others. The society expects the creators to make their
work available in the market where this work can be bought and sold. But while the society
wishes to encourage creativity, it does not want to help the grooming of harmful market power.
And for this reason, certain limits are built in the rights granted to the creator, in terms of time
and space, by the state. Rights are granted for fixed period of time and protect only the fixation
of creativity in material form.”1

SIGNIFICANCE OF TRIPS AGREEMENT

The Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights System (TRIPS) agreement is the most important
development in international intellectual property law because it was made as an annex to the
WTO agreement bringing intellectual property under the rubric of the trade for the first time.
TRIPS has subsumed, the International Intellectual Property Regime created in the 1880’s based
on the judicial enforcement of IPR’s and border control of trade infringements. This
development was regarded necessary because of the perceived toothlesness of the Paris and
Berne conventions and the inability of WIPO to modify the Paris Convention. The preamble to
TRIPS heralded the demise of WIPO as the leading intellectual property agency by stating the
desire of WTO members “to reduce distortions and impediments to international trade and taking
into account the need to promote effective and adequate protection of intellectual property rights
and to ensure that measures and procedures to enforce intellectual property rights do not
themselves become barriers to legitimate trade.”2

On this front, perhaps the most pressing and important agreement for understanding India’s
engagement in the international IPR system is its response to TRIPS. India’s position with
respect to TRIPS began with being defensive about the country’s obligations and its IPR
developments, slowly changed to moderation, and finally changed to being aggressive with
respect to some specific dimensions. Initially, India held a more defensive view of the
international IPR regime. In the 1970s, it passed through a phase of “know-why” oriented
technological learning, when the country focused technological development on building up

1
Mangal, Sachin, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS: INDIAN SCENARIO, Spring 2005, Vol. 4 No.1,
Journal of Business administrative online.
2
Amit Kapoor and Sankalp Sharma, Intellectual Property Rights in India:
Innovation and Competitiveness in the Indian Context, The National Bureau of Asian Research,

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process capabilities through reverse engineering.3 This phase was possible because India’s 1970
Patent Act allowed for this view of “know-why” development coupled with emerging IPR
culture, such as by allowing patents on chemical substances. Internationally, this put the country
at odds with the suggested requirements of TRIPS after 1994 when the agreement came into
force. Ultimately, India saw a proliferation of its “process” industry during the initial years from
the 1970s onwards, while at the international level pharmaceutical companies already wanted a
more stringent IPR regime.4
India’s pharmaceutical industry initially was strongly opposed to the idea of product patents and
led the push for defense against TRIPS. During the 1990s, the pharmaceutical industry’s
business interests in India became sharply divided, with some multinational corporations wanting
to export to overseas markets, utilizing India’s largely cheap labor. These corporations came out
strongly in support of the TRIPS Agreement. A large number still did not feel that they had
adequately caught up with the rest of the pack and wanted the process patent regime to be
extended. India accordingly signed the TRIPS Agreement in 1994. Mentioned in the GATT
treaty was also that member countries conform to their national legislations on IPR and to the
conventions and suggestions contained in the treaty. The declaration recognizes members’ “right
to grant compulsory licenses and the freedom to determine the grounds upon which such licenses
are granted.” It also grants each member the “right to determine what constitutes a national
emergency or other circumstances of extreme urgency” in implementing TRIPS.5

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A “know why” capability is in contrast with a “know how” capability. A know-why capability is based on
understanding the process and reverse engineering, while a “know-how capability is based on increasing the
production efficiency. For more details, see Amit Shovon Ray and Sabyasachi Saha, “India’s Tryst with
Technology: The Way Forward” (discussion paper 09-11 presented by the Centre for International Trade and
Development School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India, June 2009).
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A process patent is in contrast with a product patent. A process patent is granted for a manufacturing process that is
different from the original process, while a product patent is granted for only a product that is different from the
original product.
5
“Declaration on TRIPs Agreement and Public Health,” World Trade Organization, November 20, 2001,
http://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/minist_e/min01_e/mindecl_trips_e.htm.

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 DEVELOPMENT OF IP LAWS IN INDIA
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Alfred Marshall , believed that with advancements in technology, commodities alone would no
longer be the primary factor in determining the real value of money: "But if inventions have
increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured
for some purposes in labour than in commodities."7

TRADE MARK LAW BROUGHT AT PAR WITH INTERNATIONAL PRACTICES.

To align Indian trademarks law with universal practices and to guarantee usage of India's
responsibilities under the TRIPS Agreement, India supplanted the Trade and Merchandise Marks
Act, 1958, with the Trade Marks Act, 1999. A few changes under the 1999 Act are as per the
following:

 Service marks, out of the blue, made protectable through enlistment.

The meaning of "exchange stamp" now incorporates realistic portrayals, shapes, packagings
and mixes of hues, in this manner augmenting IPR assurance.

The method for enlistment of trademarks sped up by evacuating the prior arrangement of Part
A and B enrollment. What's more, just a solitary application require now be petitioned for
enlistment of a trademark in various classes. The 1999 Act additionally accommodates the
grouping in similarity with perceived International Classification of Goods and Services.

 The time of enrollment and recharging has been expanded from seven to ten years.

 The meaning of "trademark encroachment" has been expanded to give security past the
utilization of indistinguishable/misleadingly comparative stamps in connection to merchandise
for which they are enrolled.

6
Ankit Prakash , India: IP Value 2009: Recent Developments In Intellectual Property, available at
http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?articleid=76022 (visited on 27th January,2011).
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Ankit Prakash , India: IP Value 2009: Recent Developments In Intellectual Property, available at
http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?articleid=76022 (visited on 27th January,2011).

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 An action for encroachment of trademark/going off can be documented in a locale court
inside whose purview the offended party (trademark proprietor) lives or carries on business, as
against the prior law which required the suit to be recorded at the respondent's place.

Under the new law, both enlisted and unregistered trademarks can be relegated with or without
the goodwill of the business.

As of late, by method for the Trademarks (Amendments) Rules, 2014, the expense as for
trademark documenting has been expanded in specific cases. The charge for a sped up
examination have additionally been expanded. Further, the Trade Marks Registry as of late
issued an Office Order little regarding modifications that might be made to an application for
trademark enrollment. This Order enrolls certain 'significant modifications', which would not be
permitted; and different adjustments, fundamentally administrative in nature that would be kept
on being acknowledged by the enlistment center.
The law of trademarks is likewise now modernized under the Trademarks Act of 1999. A
trademark is an uncommon image for recognizing the merchandise offered available to be
purchased or put in the market by one merchant from another. In India, the trademarks were
secured for over four decades according to the arrangements of the Trade and Merchandise Mark
Act, 1958. India joined the World Trade Organization from its initiation. One of the agreements
in that identified with the Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS). In December, 1998 India
consented to the Paris Convention.
Likewise, The Trade Mark charge which was presented in 1994, is the consequence of huge
alteration made in Trade and Merchandise Marks Act, 1958. The said alteration can be called
modernization made for simple exchanging and business practices, to expand exchanging abroad
by globalization and bring venture from abroad and in particular to make trademark
administration framework as basic as could be expected under the circumstances and more
acknowledgment of the same in legal framework.
The bill couldn't be passed yet brought up the zones where the gigantic changes were required,
from there on the Trademarks Bill of 1999 was presented with the crisp survey of the required
advancement in different zone, for example, exchange and business practices, globalization and
so forth., the same was later passed in the Parliament and supplanted with Trade and
Merchandise Act, 1958 with consent of the President on the date of 30th December, 1999; the

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presentation of Trade Marks Act, 1999 has been turned out to be exceptionally productive to
India for going worldwide in exchange and business zone.
PROTECTION TO GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATIONS PROVIDED.

India has enacted the Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act, 1999
(the GIG Act). The GIG Act accommodates enrollment and better insurance of geographical
indications identifying with merchandise to help recognize the place of birthplace of products,
quality, notoriety and other particular characteristics of these merchandise. The GIG Act now
helps in securing extraordinary

Indian items connected to some geographical locale of India, for example, Basmati Rice,
Darjeerling Tea, Alphonso Mangoes, Malabar Pepper, Cardamom and Hyderabad Grapes, which
are generally notable in the universal market. For a long time, these items have been traded all
the time, exhibiting India's notoriety of high caliber of these items and, accordingly, require such
assurance. Under the GIG Act, task of geographical indications is precluded, being open
property. The GIG Act likewise sets down arrangements for encroachment actions. The GIG Act
forestalls geographical indications of merchandise getting to be nonexclusive which may
somehow prompt lost peculiarity and therefore loss of insurance.

Geographical Indication is new in India and as of late presented aftereffect of the occasion where
turmeric, neem and basmati were protected by people outside India. To abstain from letting
outside abuse the Indian Geographical indications and demonstrating the merchandise are not
fundamentally shown from Indian region.
After such example it wound up important to have enactment for enlistment and giving
satisfactory security to geographical indications. The bill presented in the parliament and passed
and with the consent of the president the Geographical indication of Goods (Registration and
Protection) Act, 1999, came into compel. The Act is directed by the Geographical Indication
Registry under the locale of the Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks.

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 COPYRIGHT LAW MODIFIED

The Copyright Act, 1957 is one of the most seasoned existing protected innovation rights act. It
has been revised many circumstances to line up with worldwide exchange and trade. The act
identifies with individual innovativeness to, it ensures the privilege of scholarly, aesthetic,
melodic works and sound accounts and cinematograph films. For example, it gives the copyright
to creator to his lifetime and 60 years after his passing. It doesn't required to be subjective work
for being qualified for the enlisted under this act, any interesting work with next to no in a
similar manner as some other work can be considered as qualified for this reason.

Under the copyright, the creator get ideal to the origin as well as get directly under which
without his earlier consent his work can't be altered. In the event that any alteration which may
done without wanting to can be brought into the court by the creator, and he can motivate request
to recuperate any sort of harms and stop such act quickly.

A computerized industry sees enormous part of copyright, the PC writing computer programs
was included the Act in 1984 as artistic work to offer acknowledgment to PC programming and
give security to the same. However, the different definition was accommodated the same later in
1994.

Presentation of the Computer programming made parcel of disarray for the inbuilt projects
without which a PC can't run, which couldn't be transacted for nothing with the PC. Later in
1999 with correction, it was conceivable to permit offering PCs and other comparative types of
gear with the inbuilt projects for nothing. It additionally guaranteed the development of recently
presented web.
The 2012 corrections in copyright law, which were made to make Indian copyright law agreeable
with the WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT) and WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty,
presented mechanical security measures, guaranteed that reasonable utilize makes due in the
advanced time by giving uncommon reasonable utilize arrangements, made numerous creator
well disposed alterations, unique arrangements for incapacitated, changes encouraging access to
works and different revisions to streamline organization.

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The Government is thinking about further changes to the Indian Copyright Act to help prevent
proceeding with piracy. Future revisions would accommodate more noteworthy impediments
against encroachment through more successful authoritative and managerial structures. These
changes would likewise offer the police more extensive forces to lead mystery attacks, seize and
demolish encroaching items, give speedier criminal procedures and expanded discipline for
piracy.
PATENTS LAW MORE ALIGNED WITH TRIPS

Alterations in Indian patent laws have been made as per TRIPS by enlarging the rundown of
innovations not patentable, consolidating more prominent privileges of the patentee, switching
the weight of evidence in an encroachment suit on process patents and making a uniform time of
patent assurance of twenty years for all classifications of creation.

Amid 2014, the Indian Patent Office discharged rules relating to issuance of pharmaceutical
patents. These rules basically join highlights of different court choices in order to help the Patent
Office in building up uniform benchmarks of patent concede/examination. These rules are
required to acquire consistency with respect to examinations of the patent applications over
every single Patent Office in India and by various dependable officers, notwithstanding
providing for the innovators and corporates much wanted conviction on how their application
will be inspected by the Indian Patent Office. Moreover, in the current past, different managerial
and procedural components have been enhanced in the field of intellectual property law. The
foundation of the Indian Patent Office has been enhanced extraordinarily, in order to create
offices for appropriate administration of International Searching Authority/International
Preliminary Examining Authority task under the Patent Cooperation Treaty.

Indian Patent (Amendment) Rules 2014 as of late presented a third class of candidate being of
"small entity", and gave procedural tenets to administering the same. Moreover, the charge for
fundamental patent recording have been modified because of the presentation of the e-
documenting arrangement of patents wherein the rates for e-documenting are lower than those
engaged with physical recording.

India subsequent to consenting to the TRIPS arrangement and shaping piece of the Agreement
setting up the World Trade Organization (WTO) with the end goal of decrease of contortions and

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debilitations to worldwide exchange and advancement of powerful insurance of intellectual
property rights, progressed toward becoming signatory, the Patent act as altered time to time in
the year 1995, 1999, 2002 and 2005 to meet its commitments under the TRIPS agreement.
Further, it has been revised to help the different innovative advancements in India, to coordinate
with the improvement of the International intellectual property laws, India has additionally made
alterations in the Intellectual property rights. The revisions were additionally gone for making
the Act a cutting edge, fit and easy to understand enactment for assurance of national and open
interests alongside satisfying India's universal commitments under the TRIPS Agreement.

Subsequently the rules under the Patent Act have also been amended and these became effective
from May 2003. These rules have been further amended by Patents (Amendment) Rules 2005
w.e.f 01.01.2005. Thus, the Patent Amendment Act, 2005 is now fully in force and operative.

MAJOR DEVELOPMENTS AND LANDMARK JUDGMENTS IN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

LAWS IN RECENT TIMES:

“The Delhi high court on 7 October 2015, barred Mumbai-based Glenmark Pharmaceuticals
Ltd from selling, distributing, marketing or exporting its anti-diabetes drugs Zita and Zita-Met,as
they tentatively infringed the patent of US-based pharmaceuticals company Merck Sharp and
Dohme Corp.”8

In March, 2016, the Delhi High court in the case of Ericcson v. CCI9 for the first time ever,
“considered at how IP law interfaced with competition law. It allowed Competition Commission
of India (CCI) to continue its investigation into anti-competitive practices by Ericsson regarding
use of its SEP's by other companies such as Micromax and Intex.”

8
https://www.livemint.com/Companies/PGkIqX2I7gGhNeHeyFNzKL/Glenmark-restrained-from-selling-
antidiabetes-drug-by-Delhi.html
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W.P.(C) 464/2014

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“National IPR Policy in 2016, released last year is entirely compliant with the WTO's
agreement on TRIPS. Examination time for trademarks has been reduced from 13 months to 8
months in the 2016 policy.”10

Bombay HC passed a series of judgments cases (Phantm Films pvt, Ltd. v. CBFC & Anr11;
Eros International Media Ltd. & Another v. Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd.12) laid down a strict
agenda for the grant of John Doe orders leading to path breaking shift in the John Doe
jurisprudence in India. The above-mentioned judgments are focused on balancing the interests of
not just copyright holders but also the Internet users and innocent third party providers.

The judgment by Bombay HC in Eros v. Telemax13, is a pioneer that unwrapped the scope of
arbitration of IP disputes arising out of licensing and other commercial transactions.

In December 2016, the Delhi High Court in the case of Agri Biotech v. Registrar of Plant
Varieties14 declared section 24(5) of the Plant Varieties Act15 unconstitutional. The court giving
a momentous judgment stated that the section violates Article 14 as it gives unchecked powers to
the Registrar. The registrar is not required to be from a legal background in order to grant interim
relief to a breeder against any abusive third party act during the period its registration application
is pending. This lead to arbitrary use of powers by the registrar.

Beside the above-mentioned developments and progressions, PM Narendra Modi's "Make in

India" initiative also aims to promoting foreign direct investment and implementing intellectual
property rights. In these initiatives, the government has decided to improve the intellectual
property rights for the benefit of innovators and creators by modernizing infrastructure, and
using state of the art technology.16

10
http://www.thehindu.com/business/all-you-need-to-know-about-the-intellectual-property-rights-
policy/article8600530.ece
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WRIT PETITION (L) NO. 1529 OF 2016
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O.A.Nos.763 to 765 of 2016
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NOTICE OF MOTION NO. 886 OF 2013
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W.P.(C) 250/2009
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The Registrar shall have power to issue such directions to protect the interests of a breeder against any abusive act
committed by any third party during the period between filing of application for registration and decision taken by
the Authority on such application.
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http://www.dnaindia.com/business/report-pm-modi-s-make-in-india-turns-one-all-you-need-to-know-about-the-
initiative-2128448

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One of the most recent and effective change brought in the trademark rules was on 6 th march
2017, where the number of trademark forms have been reduced from 74 to 8 with an aim of
simplifying the process of trade mark applications. The new rules promote e-filling of the
trademark applications. The fee for online filing of the application is 10 per cent lower than that
of the physical filing.

COPYRIGHT IN DIGITAL WORLD

DIGITAL WATERMARKING:

It is a kind of marker which is fixed in a noise-tolerant signal like an audio-video or image data.
It is basically used to identify owner of the copyright or may be used to authencity. Because it is
difficult to find any such articles and journal which doesn’t have proper digital watermarking
related articles. And, this is the reason that digital watermarking has loudly announce its entry in
the market from the past because it is very useful for the copyright owner and safeguard the right
of the owner and for that matter, it also protects the owner from the losses which he has to suffer
because of the copyright infringement. Therefore it will trace the copyright infringement.

DIGITAL RIGHT MANAGEMENT:

Digital Right Management commonly known as DRM is one of the systematic proceeds to
copyright in digital media. The main purpose of DRM is to prevent the infringer from copying or
downloading the work from the internet which is an unauthorized work. Redistribution of digital
media is an unlawful and illegal act. It is for the reply to the rapid increase in copyright
infringement. DRM receives the content at a client computer and then it encrypts through
encrypting key and later it is remote from the client computer only.

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 MEASURES TO STRENGTHEN THE ENFORCEMENT OF IP LAWS
Number of measures to strengthen the enforcement of copyright law has been taken by the
Government of India. The summary of the same is as follows:

1. “The Government has brought out A Handbook of Copyright Law to create awareness of
copyright laws amongst the stakeholders, enforcement agencies, professional users like the
scientific and academic communities and members of the public. Copies of the Handbook have
been circulated free-of-cost to the state and central government officials, police personnel and to
participants in various seminars and workshops on IPR.”17

2. “National Police Academy, Hyderabad and National Academy of Customs, Excise and
Narcotics conducted several training programs on copyright laws for the police and customs
officers. Modules on copyright infringement have been included in their regular training
programs.”18

3. “The Department of Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of

India has initiated several measures in the past for strengthening the enforcement of copyrights
that include constitution of a Copyright enforcement Advisory Council (CEAC), creation of
separate cells in state police headquarters, encouraging setting up of collective administration
societies and organization of seminars and workshops to create greater awareness of copyright
laws among the enforcement personnel and the general public.”19

4. “Special cells for copyright enforcement have so far been set up in 23 States and Union
Territories, i.e. Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Chandigarh, Dadra &
Nagar Haveli, Daman & Diu, Delhi, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu &
Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Meghalaya, Orissa, Pondicherry, Punjab, Sikkim,
Tamil Nadu, Tripura and West Bengal.”20

17
Mangal, Sachin, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS: INDIAN SCENARIO, Spring 2005, Vol. 4 No.1,
Journal of Business administrative online.
18
S. Lakshmana Prabu, Intellectual Property Rights and its development in India, Pharma Times, Vol 44 No. 7, July
2012
19
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/small-biz/legal/recent-developments-in-intellectual-property-laws-in-india-
part-2/articleshow/47780087.cms
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https://www.academia.edu/2830983/Intellectual_Property_Rights_and_its_Development_in_India

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5. “The Government also initiates a number of seminars/workshops on copyright issues. The
participants in these seminars include enforcement personnel as well as representatives of
industry organizations. As a consequence of the number of measures initiated by the
government, there has been more activity in the enforcement of copyright laws in the country.
Over the last few years, the number of cases registered has gone up consistently.”21

STEPS INDIA CAN TAKE TO STRENGTHEN ITS IPR LAWS:

India should implement speedy examination and registration procedures.

It should take effective steps to achieve the target of one month (as stated in IPR policy 2016).

The number of patent examiners and trademark offices should be increased to improve
efficiency and disposal speed.

Section 3(d) of India's Patent Act 197022, relating to restrictions on patenting incremental
changes should be amended. Norms relating ever greening should also be revised.

A new and revised IPR laws and policies should be implemented so as to make it compatible
with IPR laws of WIPO, TRIPS and other major dominant countries like US & UK

Every fiscal year, enormous time and money is being invested on R&D to improve the
existing status of the Intellectual property laws in India, to bring it at par with the IP laws of US.
We hope by following the above guidelines and following the National IPR Policy, India's
position improves in the next International IP Index 2017.

21
Dr. Mashelkar, R.A. (2003, April 21). CSIR, Raising Awareness of Intellectual Property – The Indian Experience.
22
[(d) the mere discovery of a new form of a known substance which does not result in the enhancement of the
known efficacy of that substance or the mere discovery of any new property or new use for a known substance or of
the mere use of a known process, machine or apparatus unless such known process results in a new product or
employs at least one new reactant. Explanation. -For the purposes of this clause, salts, esters, ethers, polymorphs,
metabolites, pure form, particle size, isomers, mixtures of isomers, complexes, combinations and other derivatives
of known substance shall be considered to be the same substance, unless they differ significantly in properties with
regard to efficacy;]

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 MODERNIZATION OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ADMINISTRATION
The Government, in a progression of key reactions to monetary advancement and globalization,
has put on need the modernization of IP Administration. Following advances have been taken:

1. “Modernization of patent workplaces, situated at Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai and Kolkata (Head
Office), authorized at a cost of Rs. 75.79 Cr in December, 1998. The segments of task included,
human asset improvement, computerization and re-designing of work practices, freedom of
accumulation of pending applications and operational and budgetary self-sufficiency.”23

2. Viable advances have been taken as far as obtaining of extra convenience for Delhi, Kolkata
and Chennai workplaces and its redesign, computerization of tasks, arrangement of extra staff,
change of library offices and curiosity seek offices, and so on.

3. Endeavors have been made to enhance the working of the patent workplaces inside the assets
accessible and that the issue of excess is additionally being assaulted through half higher month
to month focus for transfer of patent applications per analyst.

4. A directing board, including delegates of Patent Offices, NIC, NID, NPC, Finance Wing, and
so on., consistently screens the advance of usage.

5. Site of Patent Office (http://patentoffice.nic.in) was propelled. Work manual of the workplace
is placed being used. Data handouts on various parts of intellectual property, including patents,
have been discharged. On-line look offices have likewise been built up.

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Controller general of patents designs and trademarks, http://www.ipindia.nic.in/jurisdiction-of-patent-offices.htm

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 CONCLUSION
Today ownership of land, work and capital are sufficiently not for a nation to succeed.
Inventiveness and development are the new drivers of the world economy. The approaches
received by a nation should decide the countries prosperity. Advancement of a nation's
intellectual Capital is the most essential undertaking in such matters. A powerful intellectual
property rights framework lies at the center of the nations advancement procedures. Inside
knowledge based, development driven economies, the intellectual property framework is a
dynamic instrument for riches creation, giving an motivating force for ventures and people to
make and advance a rich setting for the improvement of , and trade in, intellectual resources, and
a steady situation for local and outside ventures. Despite the fact that India has aggregated with
the commitments of TRIPS by altering the IP laws, certain issues are as yet should have been
dealt with. Furthermore, there is a requirement for a consistent thoroughly considering the center
issue of IP assurance, so as to react to circumstances emerging out of worldwide rivalry.

The various modifications and amendments to earlier Intellectual Property Laws are an
indication of India’s move towards new IPR regime so as to prepare ourselves for the global
trade competition.

IPR are considered to accomplish monetary, social and technological progression that ensures
the thoughts and stimulates innovation, outline and serves to the formation of innovation. The
various kinds of IPR were intended to give the formal premise of responsibility for knowledge
with advantage sharing between accomplices in development to make a specialty of themselves.
It also leads to riches creation. The capacity of IPR administration is additionally to facilitate the
move of innovation as joint ventures and permitting. The social motivation behind IPR is to give
protection for the aftereffects of interest in the improvement of new innovation, in this manner
giving the impetus and methods for back for additionally look into also, advancement of
knowledge base; while fundamental social objective of IPR assurance is that the elite rights
given to the designer, gone for calibrating the adjust that must be framed between the real
interests of rights holders.

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