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 stated on Friday.
The authorities is fast-tracking the hiring course of and promotions of some current officers (already 340 examiners had been promoted as controllers earlier this week).
The authorities can be legislative modifications to repair timelines for patent grants/rejections, stated 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 stated that is an workplace that’s income optimistic not like most of its friends within the authorities and so it is sensible to have extra folks and ease the method.
“What we’re looking is allowing pre-grant opposition, say for six months as in the U.S., before the final approval are granted/rejected, so that those who want to oppose the application can do so,” he advised a seminar on mental property rights organized by the Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry right here.
Mr. Sanyal stated he’s personally drafting the urgently wanted legislative modifications as what’s of important significance is reforming the very course of, and likewise fixing the authorized metrology provisions, which now’s a very cumbersome course of, and “I am personally working on this now.”
He stated whereas over the previous few years the effectivity of the system on the examiner stage has gone up actually excessive, on the extra important controller stage it’s caught main to large pendency of functions which is round 1.7 lakh now.
Giving some comparative numbers, he stated China, which is the world chief in each submitting and granting patents, has over 13,700 folks 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 are increasing the people strength massively now and by FY26 we will have 963 examiners and 998 controllers. In FY22, these numbers were 663 and 773 and in FY20 at 263 and 673, respectively.”
On the rise in patents submitting and in accordance patents, he stated as of FY23, the whole variety of filings touched 82,809 of which 52.3% or 43,337 functions had been from home firms and 39,472 had been from overseas firms working right here. The home share was 37% in FY20 and 44.4% in FY22.
Data on the variety of patents granted in FY23 should not accessible. In FY22 the variety of patents granted stood at 34,153 from 82,805 filings and at 30,074 within the earlier yr from 66,400 filings. As towards this, the numbers in China had been 6.95 lakh and 15.85 lakh for FY22 and three.27 lakh and 6.95 lakh within the U.S.
