RIL gets highest number of trademarks in 2008
Reliance Industries, India's most-valued firm, has got the maximum number of trademarks in the financial year 2007-08, while FMCG major HUL received the highest number of patents in the same period.
By PTI |
NEW DELHI: Reliance Industries, India's most-valued firm, has got the maximum number of trademarks in the financial year 2007-08, while FMCG major HUL received the highest number of patents in the same period, industry body CII has said.
RIL was granted 816 trademarks during the fiscal, whereas Hindustan Unilever Ltd, part of UK-based fast moving consumer goods major Unilever, got 311 patents in the same period.
The two firms and several others in different categories, got felicitations from the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) for their outstanding contribution in the field of IPR during a programme organised by the industry body along with Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, to mark the World Intellectual Property Day, which falls on April 26.
"CII has started award ceremony for the first time this year to recognise the contribution in IPR related activities," Anjan Das, head of Technology, Innovation & IPR centres said.
Drugs packaging firm Bilcare also got felicitation for its contribution in the design protection category.
The World Intellectual Property Day is celebrated each year on Aril 26 by the Geneva-based UN agency World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) and its member states, which aims to encourage IPR awareness among the general public.
RIL was granted 816 trademarks during the fiscal, whereas Hindustan Unilever Ltd, part of UK-based fast moving consumer goods major Unilever, got 311 patents in the same period.
The two firms and several others in different categories, got felicitations from the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) for their outstanding contribution in the field of IPR during a programme organised by the industry body along with Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, to mark the World Intellectual Property Day, which falls on April 26.
"CII has started award ceremony for the first time this year to recognise the contribution in IPR related activities," Anjan Das, head of Technology, Innovation & IPR centres said.
Drugs packaging firm Bilcare also got felicitation for its contribution in the design protection category.
The World Intellectual Property Day is celebrated each year on Aril 26 by the Geneva-based UN agency World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) and its member states, which aims to encourage IPR awareness among the general public.
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