India's IPR policy suggests no legislative changes are necessary: Kilbride

HC ruling in the DU photocopy case sends a message that it is at odds with IP Index, says Kilbride

India was recently placed among the bottom three out of 45 countries in the US Chamber’s International IP (intellectual property) Index for 2017. The country was ranked last or next-to-last in the previous four editions of the report. In an e-mail interaction with Sudipto Dey, Patrick Kilbride, executive director, International Intellectual Property at the Global Intellectual Property Center, an affiliate of the US Chamber of Commerce, talks about what India needs to do to strengthen its regime of patent, copyright and trademark. Edited excerpts:

How do you explain India’s continued dismal performance on the US Chamber’s IP Index?

Even while the number