The figure for 2016 is 9847 items. It is reported that there are many reasons for the surge in patent applications, one of which is the increase in the number of new ventures. The number of new ventures in India increased by about 12 times times in 2017, and the National Intellectual Property Policy (IPR), launched by the government for 2016, has also created a favourable environment for accelerating the system by streamlining procedures and enhancing patent awareness,
and the average processing time for intellectual property applications has been shortened from five years to 1.5. The report says this is a big change compared with India's past bad rules on IPR protection.
In fact, the Indian government has thousands of patent applications pending for review because of shortages. India's number of patent applications surges | may be related to the increased number of new ventures in the country