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Since 1924
Area
3,287,000 sq. km.
Population
1,456,417,720 (estimated December 2024).
Capital
New Delhi with about 33 million inhabitants (estimated 2024).
Currency
Indian rupee.
Official Languages
23 languages including Hindi (official) and English (associate official).
Since independence in 1947, India has made remarkable progress. From a basically agricultural country, it is now a substantially developed country with a broad based industrial infrastructure and is now actively participating in providing technical know-how to the lesser-developed countries. The country has excelled in information technology and information technology enabled services industry. India has been ranked amongst the top 3 attractive destinations for inbound investments. Since 1991, the regulatory environment in terms of foreign investment has been consistently eased to make it investor-friendly. The Indian government has taken several initiatives to create a conducive environment for the protection of intellectual property rights by bringing about changes at legislative and policy level. Specific focus has been placed on improved service delivery by upgrading infrastructure, building capacity and using state-of-the-art technology in the functioning of Intellectual Property Offices in the country.
Profound initiatives taken by the Office of the CGPDTM have shown a remarkable improvement in the numbers achieved. Continuing at this pace, the dream of having an efficient IP Ecosystem, augmenting the industrial growth in the country, is not far from being accomplished.
During the reporting year 2022-23, the Office of CGPDTM was working towards advancing the Government’s efforts to streamline IP processes, increase IP awareness and promote commercialization. The Office took concrete steps during the reporting year towards effective implementation of National IPR policy, improving accessibility of IP information and making the IP system more transparent and user friendly. The Office also undertook steps to make the grievance and feedback system more efficient and transparent. In order to streamline the Feedback Mechanism in the IP Office, the Office of CGPDTM has taken initiatives to conduct Open House for seamless and direct communications of various IP related matters with stakeholders. The Open House discussions were initiated from October 17, 2022 on every working Friday from 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM wherein a Webex link for connecting has been provided. The Office of the CGPDTM has a mechanism to lodge feedback/suggestions/complaints in respect of issues related to the functioning of the IP Offices for the benefit of stakeholders which has resulted in timely resolution of issues.
NIPAM (National Intellectual Property Awareness Mission) launched in the year 2021 by the Office of CGPDTM to impart IP awareness to at least 1 million students, received an overwhelming response, encouraging the Office to launch its second edition. NIPAM 2.0 in its new avatar got support from various partners such as All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE), Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) and PFC-TIFAC. As of March 31, 2023, 18.62 lakh (186,2000) students and faculty members have been sensitized about IP from more than 7,377 educational institutes across the country.
Another initiative of the Office of CGPDTM is the IP Manthan that includes a series of discussions on various IP related topics amongst the IP fraternity from diverse areas of expertise. Under this initiative, renowned scientists, IP professionals, industry experts and persons from the judiciary were invited to share their views on various topics.
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