Cabinet nod for MoC between DIPP, Japan Patent Office
. Source: PIB, Government of India. The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, today gave its approval for signing of a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) between the Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion (DIPP) and the Japan Patent Office (JPO), Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan. The purpose of MoC is to establish a framework for bilateral cooperation in the field of Industrial Property (IP), with emphasis on capacity building, human resource development and awareness generation. The Offices will implement a biennial Action Plan comprising cooperation projects and activities principally, but not exclusively in the following areas: • Information sharing on IP Protection Systems and Practices. • Cooperation in the area of examination, including ...
Patent applications: India ranks eighth in the list of nations
The Dollar Business Bureau With almost 980,000 trademarks in 2013, India only ranks behind China with 7.2 million (mn), the US (1.8 million) and Japan (1.7 million), says the World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO), IP Facts and Figures, 2014 report. The report provides an overview of Intellectual Property (IP) activity using the latest available year of complete statistics. The figures presented are based on a selection of those reported in WIPO’s more compressive World Intellectual Property Indicators, 2014. The report says, of the estimated 9.45 million patents in force, 26% were in the United States, followed by 19% in Japan and for the first time, 2013 saw more than a million patents in force in China. Almost three million ...
