Source: copyright.gov.in
As reported in our IP
News Alert dated April 03, 2017 and August 07, 2017 which can be accessed here
and here,
the Finance Act, 2017 as a part of its stride to reduce the number of
Tribunals, merged the Copyright Board with the Intellectual Property Appellate
Board.
In response to the above
mentioned developments, the Copyright Office has released a Public Notice dated
October 16, 2017 stating relocation of the Copyright Office to the Intellectual
Property Office at New Delhi at the below address with effect from October 23,
2017 -
Boudhik
Sampada Bhawan
Plot
No. 32, Sector-14, Dwarka
New
Delhi-110075
Ph:
011-25300200
The
present move to bring all Intellectual Property Offices under one building is a
welcome step, as it will bring a strong sense of efficiency back into the
system and all the procedural hassles previously faced by an applicant will be
done away with. As recently as last year, the Government of India announced
that Copyright and Semi-Conductors are to be brought under the ambit of the
Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion. Such a transfer had the
consequence of consolidating all IP related functions under one body, and
instill a certain sense of uniformity in decision making at national and
international levels. Before such a move Copyright was under the preview of the
Human Resource Development Ministry.
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