The Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) has put up the 1st draft of the National IPR Policy submitted by the IPR Think Tank chaired by Justice Prabha Sridevan.
The draft, dated 19th December, appears to have been uploaded today. Presumably the ‘confidential’ tag that it displays no longer applies. While I’ve only been able to glance at it so far, it does appear to be a balanced document and a positive step forward. We shall bring you a deeper review once we have a bit of time to go over it in detail. You can take a look at it for yourself by clicking here.
P.S. Thanks to Abdullah Karuthedakam of LiveLaw for pointing us towards the draft. I believe they’ll be coming out with their article on it very soon as well.
P.P.S. You can view our previous posts discussing some considerations for what ought to be considered for a National IPR Policy here: the previous, discarded draft, and here: 12 points a National IPR Policy should consider.
Dear Swaraj: on a quick read, I see no extreme positions like bringing in patent term extensions or data exclusivity etc. Overall, a fairly balanced policy.
One thing that stands out – recommending a utility law model.
Another thing – they did NOT discuss even the earlier DIPP IP Policy as well .. that Policy had been made with a lot of efforts and received comments from multiple stake holders as well.
Happy Xmas.
SKR
Nic e to see that after criticism (even from me I know) the draft is not biased. Just curious, after they invited the comments from public, why are they not releasing them? The patent office has done it for the patents manual: http://ipindia.nic.in/ipr/patent/manual.htm
Comments to be given by 30/Jan.
http://dipp.nic.in/English/acts_rules/Press_Release/pressRelease_IPR_Policy_30December2014.pdf