Scheme for Facilitating Startups Intellectual Property Protection (SIPP)

📌 WHAT IS

THIS?

The Scheme for Facilitating Startups Intellectual Property Protection (SIPP)

helps startups protect their ideas by providing support and cost relief for filing

patents, trademarks, and designs, encouraging innovation and safeguarding

ownership.

🎯

OBJECTIVES

• To protect and promote Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) of Startups and

to encourage innovation and creativity among them, a Scheme for

facilitating Start-Ups Intellectual Property Protection (SIPP) has been

launched.

• It facilitates startups in filing and processing of their patent, design or

trademark application through the assistance of IP Facilitators, whose fee

was borne by the Office of the Controller General of Patents Designs and

Trademarks, Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade,

Government of India.

✅ WHO

CAN APPLY?

• DPIIT recognised startups.

• Applicants must self-declare that they have not availed funds under any

other government scheme for paying facilitator/patent agent/trademark

agent fees for the same IP application.

💰 WHAT DO

YOU GET?

• Support for filing and processing patent, trademark and design

applications.

• Professional fees of facilitators are paid/reimbursed by the office of

CGPDTM; startups generally bear only statutory government fees.

• End-to-end assistance including advisory, drafting, filing, responses to

examination reports, hearings, opposition handling and final disposal of IP

applications.

• DPIIT recognised startups.

• Applicants must self-declare that they have not availed funds under any

other government scheme for paying facilitator/patent agent/trademark

agent fees for the same IP application.

Visit IP India SIPP Page / Facilitator Details: https://ipindia.gov.in/page-

content/startups-intellectual-property-protection-sipp