In the world of innovation, India has an very old reputation: it remains a very low when it comes to patents. If over 600,000 patent applications were filed in the United State and twice that number in China in 2017, in India, there were only 46,000 patent and patent grants came to just around 12,000 in a country of more than 1.30 billion people. In a unremarkable building on a narrow, crowded lane in central Mumbai, the Office of the Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks is warped on changing this. It wants to make filing patents economical and granting patents faster with less paper document, which with hopes to result in more applications.
