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Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT)

Scheme for Facilitating Startups Intellectual Property Protection (SIPP)

Market accessAny stageStartup-specific
Support type
Market access
Best suited for
Any Stage
How much
80% rebate on patent statutory fees; 50% rebate on trademark/design fees
Where you apply
dpiit.gov.in

What is this scheme?

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 (eligibility)

  • 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.

How to apply

Visit IP India SIPP Page / Facilitator Details: https://ipindia.gov.in/page-content/startups-intellectual-property-protection-sipp

Apply on dpiit.gov.in (opens in a new tab)

You will leave iHub India. Applications are made directly to Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade — iHub India is not part of the process.