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Indian patent system focus of global attention

Special Correspondent

Two-day seminar, exhibition at CLRI

CHENNAI: The Patent System in India has come a long way since 1856 when British rulers enacted the Protection of Inventions Act with a view to granting exclusive privileges to inventors and manufacturers.

Far from being motivated by use of the patent system to encourage innovations and manufacture in India, the system was used by the British to help their own innovating industries. Today, after the latest (2005) amendments to the Patents Act 1970 (which succeeded the Patents and Designs Act, 1911), the Indian system has become a focus of global attention, with ardent supporters as also critics highlighting its new features falling in line with the TRIPS (Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) agreement of the World Trade Organisation.

To commemorate 150 years of the Indian Patent System as also in observance of World IP Day, the Controller General of Patents, Designs, Trade Marks and Geographical Indications under the Union Ministry of Commerce and Industry has organised a two-day seminar at the Central Leather Research Institute. D. Viswanathan, Vice-Chancellor, Anna University, addressed the inaugural session on Wednesday. V.P. Duraisamy, Deputy Speaker of the Tamil Nadu Assembly, said the 2005 amendments to the Patents Act took care to eliminate frivolous patents.

K.M. Viswanathan, Assistant Controller of Patents and Designs, and N.D. Kasthuri, Deputy Registrar of Trade Marks, spoke.

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