Annual Report of the Office of the Controller General of Patents, Designs, Trade Marks and Geographical Indications (CGPDTM) has been published.

According to Annual Report 2017-2018, filing of applications for protection of various Intellectual Property rights in IP offices under the administrative control of Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trademarks (CGPDTM) has been showing consistent growth over the years, in general.

Overall filing of applications for various Intellectual Property rights (3,50,546) has been almost same in financial year 2017-2018 as compared to the previous year (3,50,467). The increasing trend in filing of applications for Patents, Designs, Geographical indications and Copyright has been observed except for Trademarks where there is slight decrease as compared to 2016-17.

 PATENTS

Total 47854 patent applications filed in financial 2017-2018. Patent application filing increases by 5.3%.

However there is a huge increase in the examination/disposal rate of the Patent Office:

During 2017-2018, the examination of patent application increases by 108.2% than in previous year.

Number of grant of patents increased by 32.5%.

Disposal of applications increased by 57.6%, as compared to 2016-17.

Domestic filing of patents applications in 2017-18 has also increased to 32.5% as Compared to 29.2% in 2016-17.

 PRE-GRANT OPPOSITION

260 pre-grant oppositions were filed under section 25(1) of the Patents Act 1970, which is about 0.55% of the total published Applications.

DESIGNS

During 2017-18, a total of 11837 design applications were filed.

Design application filing increases by 15.9% over last year.

The number of design applications examined were 11850 which is decreased by 0.75%.

Design registrations increased by 21.07% as compared to last year.

Disposal of design applications increased by 29.48% in 2017-18 as compared to 2016-17.