Background

• The Intellectual Property Right has emerged as a key ingredient of an ecosystem which stimulates innovation and ingenuity.
• An IP Facilitation Cell was established in April 2018, which has worked tirelessly to achieve ambitious targets of training 10,000 personnel of OFB(Ordinance Factories Board) and Defence Public Sector Undertakings (DPSUs) on IPR and facilitate filing of at least 1,000 new IPR applications.
• It was launched in the year 2018 with the aim to inculcate IP culture in Indian defence manufacturing ecosystem.
• Under this mission, an Intellectual Property Facilitation Cell (IPFC) was established under the aegis of Directorate General Quality Assurance (DGQA).
• It aim  to provide a major fillip to the ongoing efforts towards promoting a culture of Innovation and Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) in Indian Defence industry.

About Directorate General Quality Assurance

• The Directorate General of Quality Assurance (DGQA) is under the Department Of Defence Production , Ministry of Defence. 
• The organisation provides Quality Assurance (QA) cover for the entire range of Arms, Ammunitions, Equipments and Stores supplied to Armed Forces.