Published: 5/17/16
Publication: Lexology
On 13 May 2016, the Union Cabinet approved India’s first Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) policy for awareness, creation, commercialization, protection and enforcement of Intellectual Property (IP) in India. As our readers may recall, the Indian Patent Office (IPO) had previously published a draft IPR policy on 9 January 2015 for comments from the stakeholders and the present policy has been finalized after discussions and comments provided by the stakeholders. The policy has been structured based on seven broad objectives which are as follows: [READ MORE]