Identifying the patent trend, licensing pattern and geographical landscape analysis of the Council for Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) of India between 2000 and 2011

• Analysis of both domestic and international patenting trends of CSIR (India).
• Policy shift explored – concentration on most significant and commercial inventions.
• Licensing trends also found to support this post-TRIPs scenario.

The article analyses trends and patterns of the Indian Council for Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR)'s, national and international patenting activities which are In-force as of August, 2013. CSIR was chosen as being India's largest public funded research and development (R&D) organization covering a wide canvas of scientific disciplines. The article reports on a decade of national and international patent filing and granting trends along with the number of active patents In-force and Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) filing patterns. In addition, the article discusses the geographical distribution and Right to Information (RTI) responses related to licensing activities of CSIR patents. The article reports the bibliometric study of patents from between 2000 and 2011, and for an easy understanding and a quick analytical view, the results are discussed in detail using various graphs and landscape bubble charts.