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Knowledge centres in patent offices suggested

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To educate the public about Intellectual Property

NEW DELHI: The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) on Friday called for setting up knowledge and education centres in patent offices across the country to educate the public about the role of Intellectual Property (IP) in emerging economies.

Besides house exhibition areas, the centres should make available literature on Intellectual Property to create awareness about protection and enforcement of IP, the chamber said.

FICCI and the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) have constituted a Consultative Working Group to make the Indian Patent Office more responsive to industry.

Making its recommendations to DIPP, FICCI said users, who filed patent applications electronically, should be incentivised by reducing their filing fee. Transactions of records across patent offices also needed to be expedited, the release added. On the basis of deliberations of the consultative group, a separate wing in Mumbai Patent Office had been set up for data analysis. The data include records on technical fields by year of filings, number of patents granted to a company in each sector, list of companies filing patents, pending applications and country-wise patents in force.

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