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3rd India-Europe Conference on Building a Sustainable IPR- ICT Ecosystem for Promoting Innovation

Panel session II: IPR Policy Perspective for Promoting Innovation – India and Europe

Bangalore – 19/20 November 2015

Michele Merloni

First Secretary – Delegation of the European Union to India – New Delhi

Index

• 1. IPR and Innovation
• 2. India's innovation performance
• 3. India's performance in patenting
• 4. India's Innovation and IPR strategy
• 5. India and EU: dialogue on IPR

• 1. IPR and Innovation
• IPR close link with innovation  growth and employment:
• Key role of emerging markets
• 2013 study of OHIM and EPO* on economic relevance of IP

rights intensive industries:

• 1/3 of EU employment
• 39% of GDP, i.e. € 4.7 trillion
• More than 85% of EU trade with the rest of the world

*https://oami.europa.eu/ohimportal/en/web/observatory/ip-contribution

• 2. India's innovation performance
• India should and could do better…
• 81st in 2015 Global Innovation Index Report by WIPO. It was 23rd

in 2007.

• China is 29th and Brazil 61st.
• Investment in research and development:
• China: 2% of GDP in 2014
• India: 0.8% of GDP in 2014

• 3. India's performance in patenting
• Again, India has room for improvement
• 43,674 patent applications in 2012/13, while China had 658,777 in

2012…

• Only 20% of applications at the IPO are of Indian origin, while in

China 60% are of Chinese origin

• At the EPO, 1,361 patent filings are from India, and 22,292 from

China (2012)

• 4. India's innovation and IPR strategy
• The necessity of an effective IPR regime and the link

between IPR and innovation and growth is clear:

• 2013 Science, Technology and Innovation Policy
• Revision of IPR Policy
• Government's flagship programs: Make in India…
• Positive examples from the energy sector…

• 5. India and EU: dialogue on IPR
• Different opinions on certain topics but several opportunities

for cooperation:

• EPO-IPO cooperation
• OHIM project in the framework of the CITD (Capacity Building Initiative

for Trade Development) which runs from February 2015 to September 2017

• But… necessity of a more structured dialogue, like the EU has

with many key trade partners, to exchange experiences and develop technical cooperation.