mumbai led by companies such as ranbaxy wockhardt and hetero the pharma sector dominates the list of top indian filers under the patent cooperation treaty pct in 2014 seeking protection internationally for their inventions overall the field of organic fine chemistry led the india filings with 301 pct applications last year a growth rate of 95 followed by pharmaceuticals with 284 filings the list of the top 10 is led by research organization cisr council of industrial and scientific research with 117 filings in 2014 indias share went up by nearly 6 with a total of 1394 pct filings in 2014 data culled from the world intellectual property organization wipo said pct filings managed by wipo assist applicants in seeking patent protection internationally for their inventions and facilitate the acquisition of patent rights in multiple jurisdictions though it is not a patent filing system it is however indicative of patentfiling trends around the world together china and us accounted for 87 of the total growth in filings under wipos pct which saw some 215000 applications in 2014 a 45 increase over the previous year after china india 1394 is the largest user of the pct system among brics countries followed by the russian federation 890 brazil 581 and south africa 297 however their growth rates differ with brazil 116 the russian federations 253 and south africa 154 showing declines while filings originating from india increased by 56 turkey 802 malaysia 314 and mexico 284 are other middleincome countries seeing considerable filing activity under the pct in 2014 organic fine chemistry accounted for 214 of all indian pct filings followed closely by pharmaceuticals which had a share of 202 with the share of both steadily rising over the years in 2014 cisr had the largest number of filings in organic chemistry 30 with pharmaceutical filings by the organization cornering a 13 share with an increase in ip awareness amongst the indian companies which may increase with campaigns like make in india they seem to be taking ip protection more seriously on a global level and this reflects in the increased filings further a pct filing gives them more time to decide on the jurisdictions they may be interested in it remains to be seen as to how many of such pct applications eventually materialize into national phase applications in various jurisdict8ions says adheesh nargol8kar partner khaitan co while over 52 of all pct applications based on published data filed by ranbaxy laboratories was in the field of organic fine chemistry pharmaceuticals accounted for 405 reliance industries wockhardt and hetero research foundation follow with 34 31 and 27 filings respectively while lupin piramal enterprises cadila and glenmark are other pharma companies in the top 10 list interestingly among the sectors macromolecular chemistry polymers showed huge growth 90 but in terms of absolute numbers the filings increased from 21 in 2013 to 40 in 2014 the other sectors which showed decent growth include medical technology and chemical engineering globally however the