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By Group -6
Kaushik Ranjan Kashyap
Manish Shahi
Mamata dalei
Monika Ghosh
Nilanjan Bagchi
INTRODUCTION
• The term patent usually refers to a right granted to anyone
who invents or discovers any new and useful process,
machine, article of manufacture, or composition of matter,
or any new and useful improvement thereof.
The patent office of the United States of America, which consistently issued the
highest number of patents since 1998, was overtaken in 2007 by the patent office of
Japan. The patent office of China replaced the European Patent Office as the fourth
largest office in terms of issuing grants. The five largest patent offices accounted
for 74.4% of total patent grants.
Continued..
Of the top 20 patent offices, the patent offices of Canada (23.9%), Australia
(19.2%), China (17.6%) and Japan (16.7%) had the largest increase in the
number of patent grants during 2006 and 2007. The patent offices of France,
Germany, the United Kingdom and the European Patent Office had a
considerable decrease in the number of patent grants.
Delineating patents under various types
Entity-wise :-
Indian organizations-669(50% of total)
Foreign R&D entities-273(26% of total)
Proprietary protections:-Patenting is possible in three
categories in the US.
Continued…
Category-wise patents:-
Process patents-336 patents.
product patents-148 patents.
Organization-wise:-
Impact of trading components in International trade
• Patent
• Licensing
• Technology Transfer
• Nanotechnologies
• R&D
• Innovations
Impact of Patent and R & D