Role of awareness creation in enhancing the Intellectual Property output

Abstract

This paper analyses the Intellectual Property output of India with special emphasis on the IP output of Kerala and compares the level of IP output with respect to IP awareness. The increasing trend in filing of IP applications in India was observed from 2007 to 2018. The study also showed a steady increase in the number of Indian applicants filing different IPs such as patents, designs, trademarks and copyrights over the past ten years. Among the patent applications filed from Indian applicants during 2007-2017, the contribution from Kerala was only about 0.6%. The IP awareness activities conducted in Kerala State has contributed to a gradual increase in the number of patent applications from the State when compared to the filing ten years ago. The IP output of the State is also improved with the registration of Geographical Indications for several agricultural and handicraft goods. Apart from this, patents filed from grass root innovators also indicate that the IP awareness has also touched the rural and remote areas of Kerala. Thus the paper establishes the relationship between IP output and Awareness.