National IPR policy to be out shortly

India's Intellectual Property Right (IPR) policy will be out soon and the government hopes to bring more people under the umbrella of copyrights, a senior official said today.
"It (IPR policy) should be out in the next few days," Rajiv Aggarwal, Joint Secretary in the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP), said at a Ficci event.
Several countries and multinational corporations want India to bring its patent laws at par with global standards.
Under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, DIPP (Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion) had prepared and circulated the draft IPR policy and invited public comments last year.

Subsequently, the government took inputs for the policy from all concerned departments and stakeholders.
"We hope to get more and more people in the umbrella of copyrights coming forward for registration," Aggarwal said.
Asked about his expectations from India's upcoming IPR policy, Francis Gurry, Director General, World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), told PTI: "... I think it is a question of balance. There is no doubt that we need incentives to innovation in the field of health".
"We need to take the IP awareness programmes to the tier 2, 3 cities and rural areas to make people aware of the IPs that they hold and thereafter for commercialisation and further movement," Aggarwal said.