Indian Patent office currently published another discussion paper on Intellectual Property rights reviewing the organizational structure of Controller General of Patents, Designs, Trademarks and Geographical Indications. The discussion paper highlights operational issues, statistics of patents and trademarks, designs applications filed, organizational structure of various International patent offices including USPTO, Japan, UK patent office, German Patent office, Australia Patent and Trademark office and Malaysian Intellectual Property office. Readers can find a set of questions on Issues of consideration which includes establishment of independent Trademark and GI registry, legal changes required for reorganization of office of CGPTDM, ideal model , measures for improvement in the examination applications, etc. you may access the paper here.
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