International patent filings declined last year for the first time in 14 years due to higher interest rates and economic uncertainty, the U...

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met with the Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Daren Tang. Th...

The United States Trade Representative (USTR) again placed India on the ‘Priority Watch List’ along with China, Russia and four others, for...

The government has reached out to the industry to elicit its views on the changes needed. The Department for Promotion of Industry and Inte...

The domestic industry is still not taking advantage of convention and treaties to which India is party, and which provide facilitation of r...

After China, India (1,394) is the largest user of the PCT system among BRICS countries, followed by the Russian Federation (890), Brazil (5...

Other nations on the watch list are Canada, Argentina, Algeria, Chile, Indonesia, Israel, Russia, Thailand, Ukraine and Venezuela.

A Javed Akhtar may get Rs 5L for every song he writes, but even he can’t deny that many people contribute to enhancing the song’s appeal.

India remains a laggard in research and technological innovation as compared to China which has become the world's fourth largest filer of ...

This is with reference to the story “Global model to give instant patent relief to drug cos” ( ET, May 6), which purports to relate to matt...

The World Intellectual Organisation (WIPO) has called on India to become a signatory to the two internet treaties which will provide for gl...

The United States has placed India, and eight other countries, on its 'Priority Watch List' for this year for failing to protect the copyri...

WTO’s TRIPS Agreement replaced the much more flexible national treatment principle with regard to IP rights under the Paris Convention with...

Have Indian officials compromised at international fora the government's actual position on intellectual property rights (IPR)?

The draft of the Substantive Patent Law Treaty (SPLT) moved by the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) proposes to curtail gove...

Since 1998 when India entered the Patent Co-operation Treaty (PCT), 2,40,000 patent applications have been received worldwide which designa...

India is among the leaders of the list of developing nations applying for patents to the World Intellectual Property Organisation (Wipo) in...