Writing in today's ( July 19 , 2015 ) Business Standard ,
Arindam Majumder provides following interesting facts about patents :
> No of patents
filed last year
* Whole World..................... 214,500
* USA................................ 61,492
* Japan.............................. 42,459
* China............................... 25,539
* India............................... 1,349
> Only one Indian entity features on the list
of the top 10 recipients of Indian
patents
> Collectively , the IITs filed 342 patents
That article also
quotes Mr Narayan Murthy , expressing his anguish at the lack of innovations
coming out of our IITs and Research Labs
True , but while
lamenting this poor state of affairs , we should also examine what causes this
poor state
Here are my guesses :
> PATENT - FILING TIME
Whereas , it takes months to get a patent
approved in Developing Countries , it takes years in India ( see my old blog
below )
> PATENT- FILING COST
In India , it costs lakhs of rupees ( fees
of Patent Attorney ) . Abroad , it takes lakhs of dollars
> PATENT PROTECTION COST
It costs a fortune (
whether in India or Abroad ) , to protect your patent in a court of law . Often
, more than the monetary benefit derived from it !
And with never-ending
appeals , it takes years to settle the matter
For Indian Innovators
, fighting a patent litigation in Foreign Courts , is an impossible task
> PATENT REGIME
India's Patent Laws
are considered " weak " , especially , in case of Pharma / Chemical patents , in respect of
" Product Patent " vs " Process Patent "
There is also a
provision whereby , Government of India can force a Foreign Patent holder to
" license " it compulsorily , to an Indian applicant who wants to
exploit that patent ( of course , on reasonable licensing fees ! )
> PATENT BENEFITS
Abroad , when a
scientist working in a Educational Institute or a Research Lab , invents
something for which ,even if a patent gets applied for in the name of that
Institute , he too gets a percentage of future royalties , when that patent
gets licensed for commercial exploitation
I don't think , Indian
Inventors , benefit in this way . That takes away the incentive
> PATENT PRESTIGE
If the inventing
scientist's name does not figure on the patent and gets replaced by the name of
his boss , innovations will remain buried !
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{ Old blog dated : 26 Feb , 2012 }
Want a Patent ? Be patient !
Newspaper Pravasi ( 26 Feb 2012 ) gives following interesting –
but far more distressing – info about working of India’s Patent Office in
Mumbai :
Ø No of patent applications pending ………………………………… 100,000
Ø Which will take to clear ………………………………………………….. 3 years
Ø No of requests being examined / year ………………………….. 12,000
Ø Additional Patent Examiners being trained …………………….. 250
Ø Which will help clear no of applications / year ………………… 40,000
Ø New requests being received / year ………………………………… 25,000 +
Ø Annual growth-rate of requests ……………………………………… .. 20 %
I would not be surprised if Indian scientists working in foreign labs are filing more patent applications abroad than the Indian scientists working in Indian labs !
Innovation will get a huge boost if Patents can be granted – or even rejected – in 6 months !
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hemen parekh
19 July , 2015
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