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A black market for fake patents is a new poison in Indian research

Researchers have reported some firms selling U.K. design registrations to Indian academics to artificially boost institutional rankings and individual CVs. These registrations, often granted in 11 days without novelty checks, are misrepresented as international patents despite lacking original research or physical prototypes

25 Jun 2026 8:00 am