GS3 · 15 marks · 250 words

While India has laws covering almost all types of intellectual property rights, numerous enforcement, regulatory and administrative challenges hamper the commercialisation of IPRs in India. Elaborate.

Answered by 3 toppers · CSE 2024–2025

Syllabus: Awareness in the fields of IT, Space, Computers, robotics, nano-technology, bio-technology and issues relating to intellectual property rights.

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The toppers’ answers

Simrandeep KaurAIR 15 · CSE 2025 · 172 wordsTheir whole copy

Opening · a definition

India belongs to top 50 Countries group in Global Innovation Index of WIPO. IPRs are rights of creators to incentivize their innovations. Article 27 of UDHR consider it as a Human Rights. Various laws:-

Body · points and prose

(GI Tags) ↑ (IPR) ← (Types of IPRs in India) → (Copywright for writings, etc.) ↓ ↖ (Design) (Trade marks)

Various laws:-

  • Patent Policy, 2014.
  • The Protection of Plant Varieties & Farmers Rights.

Limitation in commercialization of IPRs.

  1. Compulsory licensing for generic medicines. e.g. Johnson & Johnson Diabetes case.
  2. Lack of Awareness of Patents amongst youths. → more rich patent culture in US & China.
  3. Global Biopiracy. e.g. US patents on Turmeric.
  4. Patent evergreening for profit maximization encourage more government inteference.
  5. long process of getting recognition of patent.
  6. only 0.7% GDP invested on R&D.

Measures required-

  1. IPR awareness through NIPAM to youths for knowledge based economy.

diagram [Innovators] ↓ [Entrepreneur] ←--→ [Firms] ↑ | ↓ └--------------┴← [Household]

Human capital based development.

  1. Investments on R&D through NIRF matching global Average.

  2. Transparency in mediating farmers v/s Patent companies; local producers v/s foriegn patents.

Close · a vision

If China has rare earth, middle east has oil, strong IPR ecosystem can make India says "I have knowledge" by 2047.

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