A properly structured patent administration system in India is imperative now to utilize the TRIPS regime in the country for its economical prospects. Unless the country ensures an effective mechanism to implement the patent regime, it cannot achieve the objectives of being TRIPS complied, opines an international delegation of industry and patent experts.

The patent experts, in the IPR India delegation organised by CII in Mumbai, were discussing potential aspects of an effective patent protection in India. According to Randall R Rader, Circuit Judge, US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, a special judiciary system, trained patent lawyers and councilors are essential parts of a strong IPR protection. India should now start building it up, he said.

Ranjit Shahani, president OPPI, in his welcome address stressed that it was important that the patent law in the country should be enforced in the right sprit and manner, so that the investment atmosphere will be more secure for the research based companies. Also, as far as the affordability and access of medicine is concerned, there is no need of worries among the people in the product regime. But certainly, in order to make the medicine accessibility to poor and rural population, the government should enhance the health infrastructure.

In the open discussion forum, Prof. Martin Adelman, Theodore and James Pedas Family Professor on Intellectual Property and Technology, US, Dr Raj S Dave Counsel, Morrison and Foerster, Northern Virginia, Heinz Goddar, partner, Boehmert and Boehmert, Munich, and few other overseas visitors also participated.