Francis Gurry is expected to be the new head of the World Intellectual Property Organization. Gurry, who is now a deputy director-general at WIPO from Australia, is understood to have won a nail-biting election on Tuesday to replace the agency's controversial head, Kamil Idris.
India would join the World Intellectual Property Organization's Madrid System for the International Registration of Marks this year.
India was the second largest filer of international trademark applications among the BRICS nations in 2014.