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Review Papers | Medical Science | India | Volume 12 Issue 3, March 2023

Medical Device Patenting Trends in India

Dr. M. Krishnakumar

Abstract: The patenting trends of global medical device industry are very promising but in India the patenting trends in the Indian medical device industry still at the budding stage because of the lesser degree of the innovation and technology adoption in this industry. But this provides a very good opportunity for the medical device industries to explore more and more in this Indian medical device market because India being the second largest populated country with diverse nature of patients. With the amendment of Indian patent law in march 2005 and the subsequent adoption of Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights Agreement (TRIPS), lead to the establishment of improved systematic statutory, administrative and judicial network to protect the IPRs, which opened up the avenue for the global and medical device companies to enter in India. This paper reviews the patent filing trends in general and medical device industry in the world and in India for a particular period of time.

Keywords: Medical device industry, patents, patenting trends, patent filings

Edition: Volume 12 Issue 3, March 2023,

Pages: 4 - 10