The details of the new Patent Rights issued in India during the last five years is given below:

FY	2016-17	2017-18	2018-19	2019-20	2020-21	2021-22 (Upto 15.03.2022)
No. of Patents granted	9847	13045	15283	24936	28391	28091

Under the  Patent Act, 1970,  every patentee and every licensee is required to furnish detail in Form 27, regarding the extent to which the patented invention has been worked on a commercial scale in India on  an annual basis and not the information on commercial success of said patented invention.

This information was given by the Minister of State in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Shri Som Parkash, in a written reply in the Lok Sabha today.

Patent Working Disclosure: patentees must file annual Form 27 reporting extent of commercial working, not commercial success. Every patentee and every licensee must furnish an annual Form 27 disclosing the extent to which the patented invention has been worked on a commercial scale in India; this disclosure concerns the extent of commercial working and does not require information on the commercial success of the invention. Patent grant figures for recent fiscal years were reported alongside this statement in a ministerial parliamentary reply.