{"id":36894,"date":"2016-05-27T11:20:59","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T05:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/one\/?p=36894"},"modified":"2025-06-09T15:43:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T10:13:19","slug":"national-ipr-policy-design-objectives-india-ip-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/national-ipr-policy-design-objectives-india-ip-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"National IPR Policy \u2013 Design Related Objectives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">India approved its first ever Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) policy on 13th 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=\"color: #000000;\">The policy lays out seven broad\u00a0objectives and they are as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Awareness: outreach and promotion;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Generation of IPRs;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Legal and legislative framework;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Administration and management;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Commercialization of IPR;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Enforcement and adjudication; and<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Human capital development.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This article considers various provisions relating to designs under the new IPR Policy. The Policy notes that the number of design applications which are currently being filed in India, is nowhere near India&#8217;s potential, given its vast pool of designers, artisans and artists. The Policy recognizes India\u2019s large talent pool of scientific and technological talent spread over R&amp;D institutions, enterprises, universities and technical institutes and expresses the need to tap this fertile knowledge resource and stimulate the creation of IP assets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Following positive considerations are provided with respect to Design in the IPR Policy:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Policy in its objective to encourage generation of IPRs, relating to design specifically, discusses the need to encourage creation of design related IP rights by identifying, nurturing and promoting the aspects of innovation protectable under the design law and educate designers to utilize and benefit from their designs. \u00a0The Policy \u00a0also discusses the move to involve the NIDs,NIFTs and others institutions in sensitization campaigns.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Office of the Controller General of Patents Designs and Trademarks (CGPDTM), that has gone through various upgrades \u00a0in the recent past, under the new Policy will see more of such advancements through following measures:<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Fixing and adhering to timelines for grant of registrations and disposal of opposition matters;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">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=\"color: #000000;\">Creating\u00a0 a service-oriented culture to make the IP office user friendly;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ensuring that public records in the IP office are easily available and accessible both online and offline;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Conducting periodic audits of processes being adopted in IP administration for efficient grant and management of IP rights;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">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=\"color: #000000;\">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=\"color: #000000;\">Examining joining Centralized Access for Search and Examination (CASE) and WIPO Digital Access Services (DAS);<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Conducting trademark agent examinations at regular intervals, arranging training programs and involving them in capacity building activities.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Policy lays responsibility on the Registrar to study the reasons for lack of interest in filings under the Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout Design Act, 2000 and suggest appropriate remedial measures.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Policy also seeks liaising with the concerned Group in the Design wing under the CGPDTM for further working.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">These are the few specific design related provisions excluding the other common policies and strategies provided in the new IPR Policy for development and advancement of IP system in India.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Authored by Bhuvana S. Babu<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Image Source \/ Attribution<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/black-pencils-and-design-word-6444\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here <\/a><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Governed BY Creative Commons License-<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/publicdomain\/zero\/1.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> CC0 1.0<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National IPR Policy details key objectives for advancing design rights and fostering innovation in India. It addresses the need to increase design filings, improve administrative processes, and enhance stakeholder awareness. The Policy aims to strengthen India\u2019s intellectual property framework through targeted design-related strategies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":13,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,6],"tags":[2311,7656,936,8265,6963,180,8266,1841],"class_list":["post-36894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industrial-designs","category-intellectual-property","tag-cgpdtm","tag-design-law-india","tag-design-registration","tag-indian-legal-policy","tag-innovation-india","tag-intellectual-property-rights","tag-ip-administration","tag-national-ipr-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36894","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=36894"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135143,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36894\/revisions\/135143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}