Given the intense debates we’ve been having on the state and status of the Patent Office staff, I thought it would be interesting to browse through the following pages from the historical, Biblical Ayyangar Committee Report on the ‘Revision of Patents Law’ submitted 51 years ago to the Central Government in the year 1959. Those of you who are aware of the Ayyangar Report will agree with my characterization of the report as ‘Biblical’. The fact that Justice Ayyangar has done such amazing research without the internet or Wikipedia is simply astounding. His report went ahead to form the basis of the Patents Act, 1970. I’ll leave it to our friends and enemies at the Patent Office to determine whether we’ve made any progress on this front in the last 51 years. The entire report is available on the SpicyIP website over here. The following images are directly from the Report and can be downloaded from the post itself and zoomed into.
The Great One was so right and yet we do not heed to his words of wisdom!
Justice Iyengar was one of the many committed Indians of that time ,who have contributed with all their foresight putting national interest above everything.Its becoming hard nowadays such commitment is rarely found.I had the fortune and privelage
of reading and possesing the report with me
Brilliant post!
The entire report is inaccessible from the given link. Is there any way to get it?
Help much appreciated. Thanks
Hi Hersh, Sorry, the link is outdated due to the migration of the website.
At the top of this page, and every page on the site, you will see a button called “Resources”. If you click on that, it is available under “Resources -> India -> Parliamentary and other important reports”.
This is the direct link to the cleaned up version:
https://spicyipweb.wpcomstaging.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/ayyangar_committee_report.pdf
Thanks a lot! This is of great help