Lok Sabha Question No. 1156 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2016-07-25
Subject: Patent Awareness Programmes
Ministry: COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY
Asked by: RABINDRA KUMAR JENA

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY

## DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL POLICY & PROMOTION

## LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1156. TO BE ANSWERED ON MONDAY, THE 25 TH  JULY, 2016.

## PATENT AWARENESS PROGRAMMES

## 1156.  SHRI RABINDRA KUMAR JENA:

Will the Minister of COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY be pleased to state:

## वाणिज् यवव द्यग ं ्री

- (a) whether the Government has introduced patent awareness programmes;
- (b) if  so,  the  details  thereof  along  with  the  activities  undertaken  under  such programmes, State-wise; and
- (c) the total amount spent by the Government on such programmes and the targets achieved in this regard?

## ANSWER

## वाणिज् यवव द्यग ााज् यं ्रीस् वतं ््रभााा(स्रींतंरीिरंमलााीरीतंाांि( THE MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) OF THE MINISTRY OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY (SHRIMATI NIRMALA SITHARAMAN)

- (a) & (b): Awareness  programmes  on  IPRs  are  conducted  on  a  regular  basis  by  the Government  at  the  national  level  to  create  awareness  on  IPRs,  including patents.

These programmes are conducted by various departments of the Government of India in collaboration with industry associations, universities and various other organizations.

Also, Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Intellectual Property Management (RGNIIPM), Nagpur conducts  various such programmes.     In the year 2015-16, it  conducted a total of 53 training and awareness programmes in IPRs.    This included 20 Awareness programmes for various stakeholders and 33 training programmes on IPRs for 1 to 5 days duration.

After adoption of the National IPR Policy on 12.5.2016, the Government, in association  with  various  industry  associations,  organized  19  awareness programmes  on  IPRs,  including  patents,  across  various  states  in  the months of June-July, 2016, for which a provision of Rs. 6.6 lakhs has been made.

The details of these 19 programmes are as follows:-

|   Sl. No. | Date             | Location                      |
|-----------|------------------|-------------------------------|
|         1 | 5 th June, 2016  | Patna, Bihar                  |
|         2 | 16th June, 2016  | Jaipur, Rajasthan             |
|         3 | 17 th June, 2016 | Guwahati, Assam               |
|         4 | 18 th June, 2016 | Hyderabad, Telengana          |
|         5 | 20 th June, 2016 | Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh |
|         6 | 21 st June, 2016 | Imphal, Manipur               |
|         7 | 22 nd June, 2016 | Puducherry                    |
|         8 | 24 th June, 2016 | Amritsar, Punjab              |
|         9 | 25 th June, 2016 | Bhubaneswar, Odisha           |
|        10 | 28 th June, 2016 | Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir     |
|        11 | 28 th June, 2016 | Ludhiana, Punjab              |
|        12 | 29 th June, 2016 | Kochi, Kerala                 |
|        13 | 1 st July, 2016  | Panaji, Goa                   |
|        14 | 2 nd July, 2016  | Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu   |
|        15 | 5 th July, 2016  | Surat, Gujarat                |
|        16 | 6 th July, 2016  | Haridwar, Uttarakhand         |
|        17 | 7 th July, 2016  | Indore, Madhya Pradesh        |
|        18 | 8 th July, 2016  | Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh        |
|        19 | 9 th July, 2016  | Mangalore, Karnataka          |

- (c): The office  of  the  Controller  General  of  Patents,  Designs  &  Trade  Marks (CGPDTM) spent Rs. 25.66 lakhs and Rs. 20.01 lakhs on IPR awareness during the years 2015-16 and 2016-17 (to date).   Other departments like the  Department  of  Electronics  &  Information  Technology  (DeitY)  and Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSME) also organize IPR awareness programmes.

DeitY  has  launched  a  scheme  to  provide  financial  support  to  academic institutions, industry bodies and DeitY autonomous societies for conducting  IPR  awareness  workshops  pan  India.    During  the  scheme period, the mandate is to support 100 workshops (70 from academia, 25 from industry organizations and 5 from academia) with an average of 14 workshops from academic, 5 from industry organizations and 1 from DeitY societies  or  DeitY  autonomous  bodies  to  be  supported  each  year.    The scheme is for a period of 5 years upto 30.11.2019 with a total outlay of Rs. 240.00 lakhs.  Since inception, 30 IPR  Awareness Seminars/ Workshops have been supported at a total outlay of Rs. 61.94 lakhs.

A  scheme on 'Building Awareness on IPRs' is also run for MSMEs, under which 121 programmes have been conducted in the past 3 years at a cost of Rs. 34.81 lakhs.

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