{"id":50896,"date":"2023-11-09T21:30:40","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T16:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/?post_type=current-affairs&#038;p=50896"},"modified":"2023-11-10T19:33:51","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T14:03:51","slug":"patent-application","status":"publish","type":"current-affairs","link":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/current-affairs\/patent-application","title":{"rendered":"India Leads Global Rise in Patent Applications: 2023 WIPO Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">Context:<\/span> <\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to a World Intellectual Property Organization report<\/span><b> World Intellectual Property Indicators 2023, patent application filings by Indians surged by 31.6% in 2022<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the sharpest increase globally, reflecting the country\u2019s growing innovation ecosystem.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-51035\" src=\"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Untitled-0190-scaled.webp\" alt=\"patent application\" width=\"537\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Untitled-0190-scaled.webp 2560w, https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Untitled-0190-300x212.webp 300w, https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Untitled-0190-1024x723.webp 1024w, https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Untitled-0190-768x542.webp 768w, https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Untitled-0190-360x254.webp 360w, https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Untitled-0190-1536x1085.webp 1536w, https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Untitled-0190-2048x1447.webp 2048w, https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Untitled-0190-1568x1108.webp 1568w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 537px) 100vw, 537px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><b>Global Patent Trends 2022: India Surges in Innovation with Notable Rise in Patent Applications:<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Global Status: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Innovators worldwide filed <\/span><b>3.46 million patent applications in 2022<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which is 1.7% higher when compared with the previous year.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-51041\" src=\"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Untitled0-2000.webp\" alt=\"patent application\" width=\"685\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Untitled0-2000.webp 1472w, https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Untitled0-2000-300x85.webp 300w, https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Untitled0-2000-1024x290.webp 1024w, https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Untitled0-2000-768x218.webp 768w, https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Untitled0-2000-360x102.webp 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 685px) 100vw, 685px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Indian scenario:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Indians filed <\/span><b>15,495 more patent applications in 2022 than in the previous year<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, while <\/span><b>China received 33,605 more applications than in 2021.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Share of women:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> In absolute terms, <\/span><b>India accounts for the sixth largest number of patent applications<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> globally.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table style=\"width: 100.198%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"width: 100%; border-style: solid; border-color: #000000; background-color: rgba(184, 165, 217, 0.53); text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO):\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the <\/span><b>global forum for intellectual property (IP) services<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, policy, information and cooperation.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is designed to promote the <\/span><b>worldwide protection of both industrial property<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (inventions, trademarks, and designs) and <\/span><b>copyrighted materials<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (literary, musical, photographic, and other artistic works).\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The organization, established by a convention signed in Stockholm in 1967, began operations in 1970 and became a <\/span><b>specialized agency of the United Nations<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in December 1974.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is <\/span><b>headquartered in Geneva.<\/b><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 99.9987%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"width: 100%; border-style: solid; border-color: #000000; background-color: rgba(184, 165, 217, 0.53); text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;\">\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Patent:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> A patent is an invention-based legal document that defines and provides the bearer with exclusive rights to exclude others from producing, selling, or distributing such an invention<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Trademark: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A trademark can be any word, phrase, symbol, design, or a combination of these things that identifies your goods or services.<\/span><\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">It distinguishes similar goods or services originating from a different undertaking.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Geographical indication(GI): <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A GI is a sign used on products that have a specific geographical origin and possess qualities or a reputation that are due to that origin.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Women had a share of 23.9 percent of all the Patent<\/b> <b>Cooperation Treaty applications<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Major IP filing region:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The<\/span><b> bulk of IP filing activity in 2022 occurred in Asia<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, with the region accounting for 67.9%, 67.8% and 70.3% of global patent, trademarks and industrial designs filing activity.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Featured technology in published patent applications: Computer technology <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">accounted for 11.1% of the world total in 2021.\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"3\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was followed by electrical machinery (6.4%), measurement (5.8%), medical technology (5.2%) and digital communication (4.9%).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Trademark filings: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India was in the top four with 467,918 filings in 2022, behind the US (945,571), Turkey (482,567), and Germany (479,334).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Geographical indication (GI):<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> China had the most GIs in force within its territory, with 9,571, followed by Hungary (7,843), Germany (7,386) and the Czech Republic (6,383).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>News Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/india\/rise-in-patent-applications-in-india-demonstrates-rising-innovative-zeal-of-youths-pm-modi\/articleshow\/105067459.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&#038;utm_medium=text&#038;utm_campaign=cppst\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Economic Times<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Context: According to a World Intellectual Property Organization report World Intellectual Property Indicators 2023, patent application filings by Indians surged by 31.6% in 2022, the sharpest increase globally, reflecting the country\u2019s growing innovation 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