New Delhi, Dec. 6 -- The government is trying to set up a fully computerized intellectual property rights (IPR) office in the country which is similar to the US model where everything is done online.
Responding during Question Hour, Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal said the government has brought a lot of sanity to the working of eight areas of IPR, be it patent, copyright or trademark.
All of these are synergized into one office now. We are in the process of computerizing every process so that people don't have to go to any IPR office whatsoever, he said.
In the whole of the US, there is one IPR office and everybody works online, he said, and added, I am trying to develop that module here.
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