India IP SME Helpdesk - First line Intellectual Property advice for SMEs doing business in India

First-line IP assistance service for European/COSME SMEs that operate or intend to access the Indian market and look to improve their global competitiveness.

Intellectual Property Basics for SME and entrepreneurs doing business in India

This short video will introduce you to the basics of intellectual property law in India.

Registering your trade mark in India is the most efficient way to secure exclusive rights over the name and logo of your business, thereby stopping third parties from copying them. Here is a short video explaining how to go about this.

Registering a patent for your invention in India allows you to stop others from copying or using it. Here we explain how you can obtain a patent in India.

Trade secrets or confidential information is a sort of intellectual property which is often under-appreciated by SMEs, and yet they can be crucial to the wellbeing a company. Here is a checklist of why and how European SMEs willing to internationalise to India can use these to protect themselves.

Copyright is the exclusive right granted to the creator of an original work. It can be applied to a range of creations, and can be registered in India for evidentiary purposes. 

Registering your industrial design in India is the most efficient way to secure exclusive rights over the external and aesthetic aspect of your products, thereby stopping third parties from copying them.

Here is how to do it.

Enforcement takes place in many different ways, but one of the key features is the prevention of the import or export of counterfeits in a specific territory.

This video explains how European SMEs can work with Indian Customs to protect their IP at the borders of the country.

Research and development is the set of activities involved in the creation of new processes, new products and the improvement of known methods or technologies. As such, it can be considered as one of the first steps towards the creation of valuable intellectual property.

This video presents the way in which European SMEs can ensure that their IP is duly protected when conducting R&D activities in India or with Indian partners.

The textile industry is one of the most important industries to the Indian economy. 

This short video presents how European SMEs can ensure their interests are duly protected in the market from an IP perspective when entering this highly competitive market.

This short video introduces the main IP aspects relevant to European SMEs active in the Healthcare sector intending to enter the Indian market.

This short video introduces the IP aspects of the Indian Greentech market of particular relevance to European SMEs interested in doing business in India and internationally.