Patently misleading: India's IP regime not as poor as made out to be

Though the report also lists some weaknesses in the Indian IP regime, these are not entirely incontrovertible

The International Intellectual Property Index 2018, issued by the Global Innovation Policy Centre (GIPC) of the US Chamber of Commerce, which places India close to the bottom at 44 among the 50 assessed nations regardless of appreciable improvement in its score on various counts, lacks adequate conviction to be taken at its face value. India’s score of over 30 per cent (12.03 points out of 40) in this index marks a tangible ascend over 25 per cent (8.75 out of 35) in the previous year. This, according to the GIPC’s own reckoning, is the largest percentage improvement for any participating