Govt to finalise national IPR policy in 3-4 mnths: Official

The Centre is likely to finalise the policy on intellectual property rights (IPR) in the next 3-4 months and will come out with clarification on FDI in the e-commerce space, a senior government official said Wednesday. "We are in the final stages of drafting the national IPR policy. We expect it to be finalised in the next 3-4 months," Amitabh Kant, Secretary, Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, told reporters on the sidelines of a CII event. He said the government has taken inputs for the policy from all departments concerned and stakeholders and would soon forward it to the Cabinet for approval. The document will take into account the need to scale up the process of IP creation and increase commercialisation of technology, the official said.