The role of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME), to our country’s socio-economic development is enormous, considering its contribution in providing employment, manufacturing products, exports, etc. In India, several innovations are happening at the grass root level and 90% of the innovations emante from SME’s. Further, there are more than 75,000 innovations belonging to the Bottom of the Piramid i.e. the rural inventors, many of which are lying unprotected.

In today’s competitive economy, for enterprises, both big and small, it is important to have their intellectual properties well protected. Protection of intellectual creations will promote innovations and will provide a competitive advantage to every enterprise, especially MSMEs; however, there has been a gap between the MSMEs and the governing bodies from the government that can help protection of such intellect of the inventors, especially, small participants of the industry.

Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), over the years has undertaken a lead role in assisting SME’s. There has been continous effort made by FICCI in assisting government to bring appropriate industry reforms which would lead to the growth of SME sector.

In this regard, FICCI, in association with the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME), Government of India, has decided to open an Intellectual Property Facilitation Centre (IPFC) for MSME, to guide MSMEs regarding utilization of IP tools and technologies for better management of their intellectual property related needs.

The Head Office of the Facilitation Centre will be in Delhi. The Delhi office will later have links to all FICCI state offices, especially, to offices in Jaipur, Hyderabad, Chennai, Mumbai, Kolkata, Bangalore, etc., as the work progresses, enabling the Facilitation Centre to cater to the IP needs of MSMEs all over India.

The Intellectual Property Facilitation Centre (IPFC) is well equipped to offer quality services in all areas of Intellectual Property Rights and comprises of technical and legal experts having extensive knowledge in the field of intellectual property rights. The centre also has a panel of Legal and Technical experts which are established brand names among their respective areas to provide assistance in this venture. The centre, in addition to providing general advisory about IPRs, such as, patents, trademarks, designs and copyrights will also provide services related to patent searches, patent drafting, patent prosecution, facilitation in commercialization of Inventions, trademark prosecution matters, etc.

Services offered by the Facilitation Centre

General Advisory:

The Facilitation Centre will provide general advisory on different intellectual property rights, such as, patents, trademarks, copyrights, designs, geographical indications, etc. The Center will provide advice on filing of the IP applications at appropriate IP offices depending on the type of intellectual property involved.

Prior Art Search:

The Facilitation Centre will assist in conducting Prior Art Search to assess the patentability of an invention and will assist in conducting Freedom to Operate Search.

Patent Drafting:

Complete/provisional specifications for inventions belonging to any technology domain will be drafted by the Facilitation Centre as per the standards of Indian Patent Office, USPTO, EPO, etc.

Prosecution of Patent and Trademark Applications:

The Facilitation Centre can assist in filing and prosecution of IP applications related patents and trademarks.

Commercialization and Tech Transfer

FICCI can assist the applicants in successfully commercializing their invention using world-class commercialization strategies.

The efforts of FICCI - MSME Intellectual Property Facilitation Centre (IPFC) will be directed as a means of protecting and raising competitiveness of individual inventors/MSMEs with regard to Intellectual Property and promoting innovations.

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