The announcement of the National IPR Policy is something of a missed opportunity. What the Government should have delivered to the Indian people is a ‘national innovation policy’, in which intellectual property rights would have a place, but would not consume the entire foreground of the picture.
Too much of the new policy is about “educating the general public on ills of counterfeit and pirated products”, and other such rhetorical matters, which would be music to the ears of the American culture industries, but unrelated to actual technical, industrial, or social innovation.
