Sanjeev Sanyal is an creator and a member of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India.
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The authorities can also be taking a look at legislative modifications to repair timelines for patent grants/rejections, mentioned Sanjeev Sanyal, a member of the PM’s Economic Advisory Council, and a secretary to the federal government
The authorities is revamping the patent workplace functioning to cut back the huge backlog in granting official recognition for improvements by including manpower and altering the legislative framework, a senior authorities official mentioned on Friday.
The authorities is fast-tracking the hiring course of and promotions of some current officers (already 340 examiners have been promoted as controllers earlier this week).
The authorities can also be taking a look at legislative modifications to repair timelines for patent grants/rejections, mentioned Sanjeev Sanyal, a member of the PM’s Economic Advisory Council, and a secretary to the federal government.
Supporting extra manpower within the patents workplace, he mentioned that is an workplace that’s income constructive in contrast to most of its friends within the authorities and so it is smart to have extra individuals and ease the method.
“What we’re trying is permitting  pre-grant opposition, say for six months as within the US, earlier than the ultimate approval are granted/rejected, in order that those that need to oppose the appliance can accomplish that,” he informed a seminar on mental property rights organized by the Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry right here.
Sanyal said he is personally looking at drafting the urgently needed legislative changes as what is of critical importance is reforming the very process, and also fixing the legal metrology provisions, which now is a really cumbersome process, and “I am personally working on this now.” He mentioned whereas over the previous few years the effectivity of the system on the examiner stage has gone up actually excessive, on the extra crucial controller stage it’s caught main to huge pendency of purposes which is round 1.7 lakh now.
Giving some comparative numbers, he mentioned China, which is the world chief in each submitting and granting patents, has over 13,700 individuals in its patents workplace, and the US, which is the second largest, has over 8,140, whereas India has nearly 858 as of 2022.
“But we’re growing the individuals energy massively now and by FY26 we could have 963 examiners and 998 controllers. In FY22, these numbers have been 663 and 773 and in FY20 at 263 and 673, respectively.” On the rise in patents filing and according patents, he said as of FY23, the total number of filings touched 82,809 of which 52.3 per cent or 43,337 applications were from domestic companies and 39,472 were from foreign companies operating here. The domestic share was 37 per cent in FY20 and 44.4 per cent in FY22.
Data on the number of patents granted in FY23 are not available. In FY22 the number of patents granted stood at 34,153 from 82,805 filings and at 30,074 in the previous year from 66,400 filings. As against this, the numbers in China were 6.95 lakh and 15.85 lakh for FY22 and 3.27 lakh and 6.95 lakh in the US.
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