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He was sworn in on 31 October 1984, the day his mother Indira Gandhi was assassinated, at the age of forty, which makes him the youngest person to hold the office; the oldest was Morarji Desai, who took office at eighty one.

He became Prime Minister on 9 June 1964, led the country through the Indo-Pak war of 1965, gave the slogan Jai Jawan Jai Kisan, and died at Tashkent on 11 January 1966, a day after signing the Tashkent Declaration, which makes him the only Indian Prime Minister to have died…

He was sworn in as Prime Minister on 15 August 1947 and held the office until his death on 27 May 1964, which makes him both the first and the longest serving Prime Minister of India; he also kept the External Affairs portfolio with him.

The National Intellectual Property Rights Policy approved in 2016 carries this slogan and brings patents, copyright, trademarks, designs, geographical indications, plant varieties and layout designs under a single framework, with awareness, administration, commercialisation and enforcement as its objectives; its implementation was entrusted to a cell under the Department for Promotion…

World Intellectual Property Day is observed every year on 26 April, the day on which the convention establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization came into force in 1970, and each year the organisation announces a theme on creativity and innovation.

The Office of the Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks, with its headquarters at Mumbai, works under the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade in that ministry, and the Copyright Office was also brought under the same Department.

It provides that the mere discovery of a new form of a known substance which does not result in the enhancement of the known efficacy of that substance is not an invention, and therefore cannot be patented; the Supreme Court applied it in the Novartis case concerning a cancer drug.

Under the Trade Marks Act of 1999 a registration lasts ten years from the date of application and may be renewed for further periods of ten years without any limit on the number of renewals, so a brand name can in practice be protected for as long as the business…

The Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights is one of the agreements that came into force with the establishment of the World Trade Organization in 1995, and it binds every member to minimum standards of protection, enforceable through the dispute settlement system of the organisation.

The World Intellectual Property Organization was set up by a convention signed in 1967, became a specialised agency of the United Nations in 1974, and has its headquarters at Geneva in Switzerland, where it administers the Paris and Berne Conventions, the Patent Cooperation Treaty and the Madrid system.

Darjeeling tea, grown on the hill slopes of the Darjeeling district of West Bengal, was the first product registered under the Geographical Indications of Goods Registration and Protection Act of 1999 after the Act came into force, and the Tea Board of India holds the registration.

Under the Copyright Act of 1957, copyright in a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work lasts for the life of the author and sixty years counted from the beginning of the year following the year of death, after which the work enters the public domain.

It replaced the Indian Patents and Designs Act of 1911 on the recommendations of the Ayyangar Committee, allowed only process patents in medicines and food at first, and was amended in 1999, 2002 and 2005 to meet the obligations India accepted at the World Trade Organization.

Under the Patents Act of 1970 as amended, a patent in India runs for twenty years from the date of filing of the application, a term fixed in line with the minimum standard laid down by the TRIPS agreement of the World Trade Organization, and renewal fees must be paid…

Article 54 confines the electoral college to elected members, so the twelve members nominated to the Rajya Sabha and any nominated members of an Assembly take no part in the presidential election; they do, however, vote in the election of the Vice-President under Article 66, which is the point the…

He was Vice-President from 11 August 2007 to 10 August 2017, two consecutive full terms, and is the only person after Dr. S. Radhakrishnan to achieve that.

He became Vice-President on 21 August 1997 and died on 27 July 2002, a few days before his term was to end, the only holder of the office to die in harness.

Article 64 provides that the Vice-President shall be ex-officio Chairman of the Council of States, that is the Rajya Sabha, and shall hold no other office of profit; when he acts as President he does not perform the duties of Chairman and draws no salary as Chairman.

She was the twelfth President of India and held office from 2007 to 2012, the first woman to do so, having earlier served as Governor of Rajasthan.

In 1977 every other nomination was rejected and he was declared elected unopposed, the only President of India chosen in that manner.