Global Patent Filling Pattern in India

                                                           Written By
                                    Vennila Muthusamy & Kandli Sisodia

Patenting activity is an important yardstick for measuring innovation, research and technological development in a country. In recent years, India has witnessed rapid changes in its patenting landscape as a result of the growing economic activity and reforms (related to patents). We, investigated the patenting landscape in India, focusing on the patent applications published over Period of January 2014 to July 2014.This report identifies the foreign countries filling patent in India for this period.

According to the data collected about the patents filled, it shows the top 5 counties in the list of filing patents in India are U.S. (16%), Japan (8%), Europe (5%), Germany (4%) and France (2%). The below graphs show the number of Patents filled in India by the different countries.

This trend shows how global companies are now seeing India as a key market for IP protection. Definitely this shows the interest other counties are having in getting patent protection in India. India is a big market and if patent protection is granted it means a big gateway for a large number of consumers.

This filing trend clearly indicates that how all the countries across the globe see India as a big market and through this, India getting a platform for collaboration, partnership and licensing. Growth opportunities are rising.

Seeing the opportunities Indian companies and business owners looking for expansion and growth should evaluate the IP portfolio to identify opportunities.

Author: Vennila Muthusamy & Kandli Sisodia
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Sports & Innovative Patents

                                                     Written By
                                           Vennila Mutthusamy                                              

Football is one of the world’s favorite sports, has over 240 million players in 1.4 million teams in 300,000 clubs across the world. The sport has continually evolved and continues to do so. There are many innovations have been evolved in soccer sports in which from top companies to individual inventor have major contribution to it. In order to understand the technology and methods, design involved in it Patent and trademark could be useful tool.

           A review of the patents granted over the last 20 years reveals that there was an up-tick in the number of patents granted for sports-related technologies during the 1990s, with a spike of nearly 500 patents granted in 1998 alone, followed by a drop to an average of around 250 patents per year from 2000 to 2012. The patents granted for innovations related to football are enormous. Accordingly, the number of patents mentioning “soccer” in the patent specifications as recorded on  reached a figure of ~ 2,773 in between 2012-2014. Also, the number of patent specifications (including design patents) mentioning “soccer” in the title as recorded on Espacenet leap from 91 in 1990-99 to 251 in 2012-2014.

         There are various changes in the design of the football it had change from 12-panel layout to 6-panel design that’s custom fit and provide stable aerodynamics. So many things have changed in the game and the innovative part has been patented either in design or utility and also trademark have important role in this. If we take a look over the patents filed by Germany during the year 2013 to 2014 related to soccer or football is related to ~74. 

Below is the chart depicting the countries and their number of patent filing in the year 2013 to 2014

In this Hungary patent number HU1200264A2 is granted for Football Ball Equipped with a Gps Device in February 2014 likewise so many innovative things have filed and being granted

The trend of filing patents related to soccer or football is showing gradual increase compared to early period. Due to the development made in the game and technology have joined to make a remarkable note in filing patents and trademarks

Conclusion

So many interesting patents were filed related to football. There should be new development and advance technologies that should pave the way for improvement of Intellectual property

References

1.     http://winthropintelligence.com

Author: Vennila Muthusawmy