Notable And Laudable Progress In Engagement With India: GIPC

WASHINGTON: India and the U.S. have made laudable progress in the fields related to intellectual property but the real policy change is yet to happen, a wing of the powerful American Chamber of Commerce said.

The US Chamber's Global Intellectual Property Center (GIPC), which had launched an aggressive anti-India campaign last year and had demanded punitive measures against New Delhi, said that while there had been a very high-level of engagement between the two countries their concerns are yet to be addressed.

GIPC said this after the U.S. Trade Representatives announced its decision to conclude its out-of-cycle-review (OCR) on India.

"In its release, United States Trade Representative (USTR) has characterised the principal objective of the OCR as one of the engagements, and seen through that prism there clearly has been notable and laudable progress since May," said Patrick Kilbride, executive director for International IP Policy at the U.S. Chamber's GIPC."

"Nevertheless, as the core, ultimate objective of bilateral engagement, the GIPC remains focused on measurable and sustainable progression in India toward a regime that promotes and protects intellectual property and innovation; and in that perspective the effort has been defined, but not yet truly begun," he said.