Projects
CIIPC has been working on research projects in diverse areas. Please find below the links to some of the major research projects undertaken by the centre.
IP in Agri-Biotech in India
(Non-technical Summary) The recent years have been witnessing a spate of high stakes litigation in India in the area of agri-biotech. The emerging space of biotech inventions is increasingly implicated by the patents and other kinds of intellectual property (IP)...
Regulation of Digital Markets in the Context of Big Data, AI, and IoT
The world is increasingly witnessing a shift to online marketplaces and online platforms. This can be attributed to the exponential rise in the use of information technology, smartphones, and the proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) and data-driven...
L2Pro India IP e-learning Platform
Generation of awareness about intellectual property and its dissemination among a new generation of startups and SMEs (small and medium enterprises) is crucial for encouraging innovation and entrepreneurship and India’s success in the innovation story. CIIPC has...
Practising Patents in India
Non-technical Summary Patents require positive disclosure of inventions as part of the social bargain. Many jurisdictions only require that patents are disclosed through the patent specification on paper. Patent holders are not required to reduce their inventions into...
Open Innovation
There is no universally accepted definition for the term ‘open innovation’. It is understood and used in a wide variety of ways by different stakeholders. This implies that diverse IP models may be employed while practising open innovation, and there may be...
Intellectual Property and Startups
Startup India is a flagship initiative of the Government of India, designed along with Make in India, Skill India, Digital India and Ease of Doing Business in India. While these programs aim at building stronger industrial capabilities in general, Startup India aims...
Open Access Textbook on Competition Law
One of the fallacies plaguing the field of education is the exclusivity of access to comprehensive reading materials, such that only students, academicians and institutions with financial privilege or access to well-curated libraries and online databases are able to...
Open Access Textbook on Intellectual Property
One of the fallacies plaguing the field of education is the exclusivity of access to comprehensive reading materials, such that only students, academicians and institutions with financial privilege or access to well-curated libraries and online databases are able to...
Open Science for an innovative India
Context of the project Open Science is a shared intellectual space and a new global movement in which researchers from across the world, cutting across different disciplines, are increasingly becoming a part of. The term ‘open science’ has generated umpteen...
Patents and Competition
The relationship between patents and competition law has been debated and discussed for decades now, and the consensus that has emerged is that both areas of the law complement each other, and share a common goal of maximising innovation. While competition law...
Open Science and Digital Inclusion in South Asia
This UNESCO funded project examines the challenges and opportunities for Open Science and Digital Inclusion in South Asia. The key research questions that are explored through this study are – What are the challenges for open science and digital inclusion in South...