IT’s Rs 18 lakh crore m-cap rout; Info Edge, Ixigo post Q4 profitsA multi-month bear market has hit the valuations of India’s top 10 digital and technology services exporters. This and more in today’s ETte...
22 May, 2026, 07.58 PM IST
Shots fired in the AI war: US and China clash over code and controlThe US-China AI rivalry has intensified, moving beyond innovation to a battle for talent, IP, and strategic tech. China's blocking of Meta'...
27 Apr, 2026, 08.35 PM IST
After tariff wars, Trump is opening a new front in US-China rivalryThe US accuses China of stealing AI intellectual property, escalating the tech rivalry beyond tariffs. This move, potentially impacting chi...
24 Apr, 2026, 03.03 PM IST
Patent cliff can turn Indian pharma stocks into investor’s goldminePharma stocks have surged due to a 'Patent Cliff,' where numerous drug patents expire, allowing generic manufacturers, especially in India,...
31 Aug, 2024, 10.38 AM IST
Indian patent office hiring 900 professionals: DPIIT secretaryPatent filing has increased by ten times and trademark application filing by six times since 2016, according to Secretary in the Department...
13 Oct, 2023, 10.59 PM IST
Mann Ki Baat: Prime Minister Narendra Modi hails IISc for record number of patentsResearchers and scientists from IISc have filed 3,147 patent applications from January 2001 to December 2022, of which nearly 70% - 2,157 -...
30 Jan, 2023, 02.00 AM IST
PM Modi praises rise in patents in India, Lays stress on right disposal of E-wasteIn his first monthly 'Mann ki Baat' address of 2023, the PM spoke on several issues, from promotion of millets to recognition of talent amo...
30 Jan, 2023, 12.31 AM IST
'Increasing examiners, reducing application process time can help grow patents granted in India'The Survey said that while India's low expenditure on research and development (R&D) activities is one of the key reasons for relatively lo...
31 Jan, 2022, 06.17 PM IST
Low R&D spend one of the reasons why India lags behind China, US in patents: Economic SurveyThe survey added that the number of patents granted in India is a fraction of what is granted in China, US, Japan.
31 Jan, 2022, 05.03 PM IST
Pharma lobby cries foul on GIPC’s poor ranking to IndiaGlobal Intellectual Property Centre (GIPC) index on intellectual property (IP) standards once again places India at the bottom of 45 countr...
14 Dec, 2020, 05.00 PM IST
India hopes further improvement in Global Innovation Index 2019 rank: GovernmentIt ranked India as the 57th most innovative nation in the world in 2018, higher than its 60th position the year before that. India is aimin...
23 Jul, 2019, 04.07 PM IST
IP reforms not enough to push India out of US’ watch listThe list, as part of the US’ annual Special 301 report, identifies trade barriers to US companies due to intellectual property laws of othe...
08 Feb, 2018, 03.41 PM IST
India ranks 44 out of 50 nations in global IP indexIndia's score displayed the largest percentage improvement of any country measured, and the country broke out of the bottom ten percent for...
08 Feb, 2018, 11.45 AM IST
India ranks 43rd out of 45 nations in IP environment: ReportGIPC also highlighted the need for the government to "build upon the positive rhetoric of its IPR policy with the substantial legislative r...
08 Feb, 2017, 07.16 PM IST
Indian School of Business, Deloitte and Nasscom develop index for GICs in IndiaCaptive centres or global in-house centres (GICs) contribute more than a fifth, or about $ 20 bn of software exports revenue from India, ac...
10 Aug, 2014, 04.58 PM IST
EPO offers free access to 85 million global patent databaseThe EPO patent database has about 85 million patents from 90 countries including those on green technologies.
31 May, 2014, 03.16 AM IST
India ranked at the bottom of Intellectual Property IndexFor the second consecutive year, India has been ranked at the bottom of 25 countries in terms of protection and enforcement of intellectual...
29 Jan, 2014, 04.35 PM IST