Category: WIPO

World Intellectual Property Indicators 2024 places India in global top 10 for patents, trademarks and industrial designs

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On 12 November 2024, India’s Press Information Bureau reported key outcomes from WIPO’s World Intellectual Property Indicators 2024, confirming India’s position among the global top 10 across patents, trademarks and industrial designs. In patents, India posted the fastest year-on-year growth among the top 20 origins in 2023 (+15.7%), totaling 64,480 applications with a resident share of 55.2%, and a 149.4% year-on-year increase in patent grants. Industrial design applications rose by 36.4%. In trademarks, India ranked fourth globally for filings; the Indian trademark office holds the second-largest number of active registrations worldwide (over 3.2 million), with resident filings accounting for nearly 90%.

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Union Cabinet finally approves India’s accession to WIPO Copyright Treaty, 1996 and WIPO Performance and Phonograms Treaty, 1996

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Via a press release dated 4th July 2018, published by the Press Information Bureau, it has recently been announced that the Union Cabinet had approved the proposal submitted by Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, Ministry of Commerce and Industry Continue reading “Union Cabinet finally approves India’s accession to WIPO Copyright Treaty, 1996 and WIPO Performance and Phonograms Treaty, 1996” →