Telangana ranks fifth in patent filings, says report

Telangana featured prominently crossed respective parameters of India’s intelligence spot ecosystem during 2024-25, according to the yearly study 2024-25 released by the Office of the Controller General of Patents, Designs, Trade Marks and Geographical Indications (CGPDTM). The State’s beingness extended beyond patent filings to see plan applications, nationalist IP consciousness programmes, examiner grooming and capacity-building initiatives.

In patent filings by Indian applicants, Telangana recorded 4,293 applications during 2024-25, placing it 5th nationally. The State showed a wide year-on-year summation compared to 2023-24, erstwhile 2,795 applications were filed. Telangana was among the States specifically identified by the CGPDTM arsenic having contributed importantly to the emergence successful home patent filings, alongside Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Odisha.

A person break-up shows that Telangana accounted for 4,288 mean patent applications, 1 normal application, and 4 nationalist signifier applications successful 2024-25 said Subhajit Saha, a GI practitioner. 

Telangana besides registered a disposable footprint successful plan filings. During 2024-25, the State accounted for 979 plan applications filed. In presumption of plan registrations, Telangana recorded 637 registered designs, placing it among the contributing States successful the nationalist full of 27,299 registered designs during the year.

The subordinate illustration from Telangana included 3 schoolhouse attendees, 3,207 assemblage students, 1,023 participants from institutes, and 308 university-level participants. Gender-wise information showed 2,883 pistillate and 1,658 antheral participants from the State, indicating a higher information of women successful IP consciousness initiatives.

As portion of a large recruitment drive, 407 recently appointed Examiners of Patents and Designs joined induction grooming programmes conducted astatine RGNIIPM-Nagpur, and Dr MCR HRD Institute successful Hyderabad, successful January 2025, the study said.

In presumption of IP consciousness and outreach, Telangana saw extended enactment nether the National Intellectual Property Awareness Mission (NIPAM). During 2024-25, arsenic galore arsenic 22 NIPAM programmes were conducted successful the State. Through these programmes, a full of 4,541 participants from Telangana were sensitised to intelligence spot rights.