The
Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has approved the continuation of
the Plan scheme to modernise and strengthen Intellectual Property (IP) offices
during the 12th Plan period.
The
overall project cost would be Rs.309.6 crore, of which Rs.258 crore will be
spent during 12th Plan and Rs.51.6 crore in the 13th Plan.
The
implementation of the scheme will strengthen the Office of the Controller
General of Patents, Designs and Trademarks (CGPDTM) and address the increase in
the number of fillings of IP applications.
It will
also address the growing international commitments due to the
operationalisation of the Madrid Protocol and status of International Search
Authority (ISA) / International Preliminary Examining Authority (IPEA).
In the
12th Plan the focus would be on enhancement of human resources, upgradation of
IT and database, construction of buildings, improvement in library facilities
and sensitization and awareness creation on Intellectual Property Right
matters.
The main
achievements in the 11th Plan period includes the construction of new complex
for IP archives and TM registry at Ahmedabad, construction of an International
Search Authority/International Preliminary Examining Authority (ISA/IPEA)
building at New Delhi, creation of state of the art Information and
Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure such as Data centre, high end
servers, digitization of IP records, comprehensive e-filing facility for
Patents and Trademarks, subscription to Paten and non Patent database, filling
up of new posts created under the plan training of personnel and conduct of
awareness programmes.
The
growing importance of intellectual property in a globalized economic
environment has placed greater demand on the IP institutional structure,
India’s accession to the Madrid Protocol on 8th April, 2013 and its coming into
effect from 8th July, 2013 as also the operationalization of the Office of
CGPDTM as International Search Authority/International Preliminary Examining
Authority (ISA/IPEA) under the Patent Cooperation, Treaty from 15th October,
2013 will further impact the workload of the Office of CGPDTM.
Source:
http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=106029
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