BANGALORE: The big boom that followed after India opened its door for the outside world in terms of economy in 1990 saw foreign products slip making creating the apt "consumer's market". Industries and scientists had to compete and it was in this ongoing transformation that gave light to the need for patent drive headed by the mantra: "Patent, publish, and prosper." A report published by MIT said. It's been a decade since India's launch of the innovate-and-patent campaign. The patent for an Indian-designed software that eliminates noise from complex digital data and a pomegranate de-seeder invented by an Indian college dropout have been sighted by the far west after their purchase by a U.S. companies, foretelling an invasion on Indian technology, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said. Reflecting a tremendous growth within the Indian research and culture scenario, the patent portfolio of 38 publicly funded Indian laboratories have increased from fewer than 30 U.S. patents in 1995 to more than 720 in July of this year which are beginning to translate into licenses outside India. R. Mashelkar, Director General of the network linking 38 public labs, known as the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, (CSIR), credited the new success to the fact that, for decades most researches were aimed at "reverse engineering" -- a euphemism for copying technologies without true innovation thus ensuring a backseat in technological creations. All that has changed for the better now as India's patent savvy scientists and labs select projects only when they see opportunities to generate intellectual property or acquire patents and have also enticed global companies to exploit local Indian research talent and to seek partnerships with CSIR labs. Another theory accompanying the recent patent data is the fact that global companies like Cisco, Intel, General Electric, IBM, Sun Microsystems, et al have established Indian research centers, thus leading to the hypothesis that India's potential intellectual property will increasingly flow to multinational companies. "They're using Indian IQ to create IP for themselves," says Mashelkar. "We need to exploit our local IQ to generate IP for ourselves." But not all are happy with the tempo of licensing. The CSIR has licensed only 133 patents out of 1,915 granted. Ajay Sood, a physicist at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore says that the atmosphere for venture capital in high technology in India is not as good as it is in the United States and the process of moving ideas from the laboratory to the marketplace needs to improve.