Comments on: IP, India, and Cultural Anthropology http://madisonian.net/2009/09/12/ip-india-and-cultural-anthropology/ a blog about law, tech, culture, and related things Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:59:42 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: asrao http://madisonian.net/2009/09/12/ip-india-and-cultural-anthropology/comment-page-1/#comment-291816 asrao Sun, 13 Sep 2009 05:19:07 +0000 http://madisonian.net/?p=2944#comment-291816 An insider view of funding agencies (not)taking IP in India. The traditional wisdom was that government as funding agency ( investing public funds) should take title to innovation and offer it on non-exclusive basis to many firms in the country (public benefit). With this approach many funding agencies notably DST and DIT accumulated on file a large portfolio of innovations/ research results/IP. DSIR ( Department of Scientific and Industrial Research) where I worked, took a different view and under the first national program funding privately owned commercial organisations at pre-competitive stage (PATSER) allowed the funded commercial firm to take title to IP and Innovation. That was in 1995 and continues even now. The credit for taking this bold step without legislation goes to Ashok Parthasarathi and KV Srinivasan, decison makers at that time. But this was never articluated as national policy. An insider view of funding agencies (not)taking IP in India.
The traditional wisdom was that government as funding agency ( investing public funds) should take title to innovation and offer it on non-exclusive basis to many firms in the country (public benefit). With this approach many funding agencies notably DST and DIT accumulated on file a large portfolio of innovations/ research results/IP. DSIR ( Department of Scientific and Industrial Research) where I worked, took a different view and under the first national program funding privately owned commercial organisations at pre-competitive stage (PATSER) allowed the funded commercial firm to take title to IP and Innovation. That was in 1995 and continues even now. The credit for taking this bold step without legislation goes to Ashok Parthasarathi and KV Srinivasan, decison makers at that time. But this was never articluated as national policy.

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