The The Government of India(GOI ) has decided to make the Centre for Development of Telematics(C-DOT), an Indian Government owned telecommunications technology research and development centre, will only act as a facilitator for standard essential patent (SEP) negotiations and shall not have any financial liability or obligations towards any parties.

• The government has decided to make the Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DoT) as the nodal facilitation agency to front-end on telecommunication IPRs and patents.
• C-DoT, which is the RD wing of the Department of Telecommunications (DoT), will only act as a facilitator for standard essential patent (SEP) negotiations and shall not have any financial liability or obligations towards any parties.
• C-DoT has been directed by the government to provide handholding and all the necessary support to start-ups, MSMEs and R&D entities for converting innovations into IPRs and translating research into commercially deployable products.
• C-DoT will undertake IPRs/SEPs management on behalf of the Indian R&D ecosystem as an R&D collective to negotiate and engage with domestic and global IPR licensors.