Domestic patent filings surpass international ones after 11 years

Total of 19,796 patent applications filed, 10,706 54% were filed by Indian applicants as compared to 9,090 by non-Indian applicants

The number of domestic patent filing has surpassed the number of international patent filing during January-March 2022 for the first time in 11 years, the commerce and industry ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.

This means that of the total 19,796 patent applications filed, 10,706 (54 per cent) were filed by Indian applicants as compared to 9,090 by non-Indian applicants.

Commerce and Industry minister Piyush Goyal said that the coordinated effort by the industry department and intellectual property (IP) office has led to increased IP awareness among all strata of society. “These efforts have on the one hand led to an