CDoT To Be The Nodal Agency For Telecom IPRs

The government has decided to make the Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DoT) the nodal facilitation agency to the front end.

The RD wing of the Department of Telecommunications, C-DoT will now play the role of the facilitator only for standard essential patent (SEP) negotiations. It shall also not bid any financial liability or obligations towards any parties.

The government has directed the C-DoT to provide handholding and all the necessary support to start-ups, MSMEs and R&D entities for converting innovations into IPRs and translating research into commercially deployable products.

Furthermore, it also instructed the C-DoT to undertake IPRs/SEPs management on behalf of the Indian R&D ecosystem as an R&D collective to negotiate and engage with domestic and global IPR licensors.

The DoT’s wing will participate in engagements related to IPRs/SEPs on behalf of Indian technology entities.

It would also responsibly look into the development, hosting and maintenance of Indian telecom IPRs/SEPs repository in coordination with TEC, global and regional standard development organisations, academia and industry.

Additionally, for enabling effective implementation of the above activities, inter alia, the C-DoT is in talks to engage professional IPR-technical and legal counsels and constitute. This would strengthen its IPR resources, a government notification underlined.