{"id":36870,"date":"2016-05-25T17:14:07","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T11:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/one\/?p=36870"},"modified":"2025-06-09T15:25:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T09:55:57","slug":"national-ipr-policy-trademark-objectives-india-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/national-ipr-policy-trademark-objectives-india-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"National IPR Policy: Trademark Related Objectives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">India approved its first ever Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) policy on 13<sup>th<\/sup> May 2016 with a vision to stimulate creativity and innovation and to promote advancement in science and technology, art and culture, traditional knowledge and biodiversity resources.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The policy lays out seven broad\u00a0objectives and they are as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Awareness: outreach and promotion;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Generation of IPRs;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Legal and legislative framework;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Administration and management;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Commercialization of IPR;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Enforcement and adjudication; and<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Human capital development.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">This article considers various provisions relating to Trade marks under the new IPR Policy. India is among the top five trade mark filers in the world, with the whopping majority of applications being filed by Indians.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The following positive considerations are provided with respect to trademarks in the new IPR Policy:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Office of the Controller General of Patents Designs and Trademarks, that has gone through various upgrades in the recent past, under the new Policy will see more of such advancements through following measures:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Fixing and adhering to timelines for grant of registrations and disposal of opposition matters;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Adopting\u00a0 best practices with respect to filing and docketing of documents,maintenance of records and digitizing the same including document workflow and tracking systems;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Creating\u00a0 a service-oriented culture to make the IP office user friendly;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Ensuring that public records in the IP office are easily available and accessible both online and offline;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Conducting periodic audits of processes being adopted in IP administration for efficient grant and management of IP rights;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Providing continuous training to staff of the IP Office to update them regarding developments in procedures (especially search and examination),substantive laws and technologies, with the Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Intellectual Property Management, Nagpur (RGNIIPM);<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Removing disparities, if any, among different branches of the trademark registries and adopting\u00a0 standardized procedures in examination\/grant of applications including maintenance of rights;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Examining joining Centralized Access for Search and Examination (CASE) and WIPO Digital Access Services (DAS);<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Conducting trademark agent examinations at regular intervals, arranging training programs and involving them in capacity building activities.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The Policy has under its objective, to transform knowledge into IP assets and it specifically seeks to encourage enterprises to create brand equity from their IP rights, such as trademarks.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The IP Policy\u00a0 also focuses on protection of right holders\u2019 rights. It lays emphasis on the need for capacity building of the enforcement agencies at various levels, including strengthening of IPR cells in State police forces. The Policy also lays down measures to check counterfeiting of trademark goods, in furtherance of which it provides for organizing regular IPR workshops\u00a0\/ colloquia at judicial academies and other forums for judges which would facilitate effective adjudication of IPR disputes.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">These are the few specific trade mark related provisions excluding the other common policies and strategies provided in the new IPR Policy for the development and advancement of the IP system in India.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Authored by Bhuvana S. Babu<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National IPR Policy 2016 sets clear objectives for trademark administration and enforcement in India. It aims to improve efficiency, promote brand equity, and strengthen protection mechanisms for rights holders. The policy\u2019s measures reflect a commitment to advancing the intellectual property system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11],"tags":[8254,180,8256,8255,1841,6022,8253,105],"class_list":["post-36870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intellectual-property","category-trademarks","tag-india-trademark-law","tag-intellectual-property-rights","tag-ip-office-india","tag-ipr-policy-2016","tag-national-ipr-policy","tag-trademark-enforcement","tag-trademark-objectives","tag-trademark-registration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36870"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135129,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36870\/revisions\/135129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}