Promoting European clean technologies in India & tackling climate change | 1 30 th Sep Promoting EU-India Economic Relations through Developing Institutional Partnership and through Effective Regulatory IPR Environment Arvind Chopra – Head IPR, EBTC

Promoting European clean technologies in India & tackling climate change | 2 Intellectual Property Environment  Overview – Well developed Statute, Rules and Regulations – TRIPS complaint – IP case laws are providing new dimensions – National IPR policy outlines the strategic direction of IPR  New Development in IPR – Standard Essential Patents ( Ericson Vs. Micromax) – Parallel importation – New manufacturing policy – Ambitious National IPR policy (how to implement)

Promoting European clean technologies in India & tackling climate change | 3 Intellectual Property Environment  Some existing challenges – Procedural Delays both at patent office and at courts – Term restoration – Utility patents – IP enforcement – Madrid protocol – Capacity building in legal system – Coordination among various policy makers

Promoting European clean technologies in India & tackling climate change | 4 Challenges in EU - India Economic relations  Challenges – Technology identification – Technology adoption and adaption – Framework for transferring under fair use – Managing innovations in joint collaborative projects  Funding Institutions – Development of institution for joint funding – Addressing procedural delays – Joint research: How to use funds that will create technologies for benefit of society and commercial viable? – Bilateral agreement for Science and Technology development

Promoting European clean technologies in India & tackling climate change | 5 Challenges in EU - India Economic relations  Standards and Market access – Aligning standards in new technologies – Preparing joint product/technology standards in partnership with relevant stakeholder in both regions – Institutional framework for Standards development and resolving IP issues – Standards Essential Patents and competition law  Joint research and development – Institutional partnership in research to market ( 90% of the project end as partnership projects) – Public partnership model with Industry for commercialization of technologies – Respect to background technologies

Promoting European clean technologies in India & tackling climate change | 6 Challenges in EU - India Economic relations  Joint development of technologies – How make joint call effective and participative – Selection of institutions – IP clauses and its management – Data security  Outreach – Ecosystem of institutional partnerships for building sustainable model of collaboration – IP commercialization and monetization – Can we built institution level platforms and framework for exchanging technologies – Can we prepare collaborative assessment system with institutions to evaluate technology advancement

Promoting European clean technologies in India & tackling climate change | 7 Institutional Partnership model at EBTC EBTC IPR Helpdesk European Patent Office (EPO) Cooperation agreement for Strengthening IP system and to foster technology commercialisation IPR helpdesk for Member states IPR Helpdesk with Enterprise Estonian to support Estonian companies in protecting their IP in India Indian Institutional partnerships Working with chamber CII, FICCI and ASSOCHAM National Research and Development Cooperation Cluster-to-Cluster collaboration with various Indian Clusters

EBTC IPR Helpdesk Support & Service

EBTC Colors- RGB Value Enhancing EU-India Collaboration in Clean Technologies | 9 IPR – India Helpdesk: Service Profile

Promoting European clean technologies in India & tackling climate change | 10 Learnings  Creating a successful Institutional partnership ecosystem: – Win-Win situation for all partners – Leveraging each others competencies – Creating synergies and achieving common objectives

Promoting European clean technologies in India & tackling climate change | 11 Issues  Continuity of institutional partnerships  Re-inventing partnership and aligning objectives  Consultative process with partners for dynamically aligning objectives  Setting-up micro level objectives

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