Reason one: In India the patent right is not a big enough carrot to lure the researcher into filing a patent application. Maybe the research subject has no commercial value. Maybe the cost to commercialize the technology is too big a hurdle for the researcher to climb over. Maybe the Patents Act in India provides too little protection for patents.

Reason two: The university or research institution where the researcher works do not have licensing department or policy to recoup the value of IP rights. A researcher needs professional help when deciding whether to file a patent application for his/her new discoveries. Writing a patent is different from writing a paper. Even if the researcher is awarded a patent, he/she may have trouble selling the patent right.

Reason three: Publish or perish. If no extra bonus is provided by a patent application when compared with a paper, most researchers would choose publishing a paper: much quicker to publish and much easier to write (no claims at all).

Once published, not possible to ask for protection. So you avoid other people to protect this idea if you dont want/have money to file an application.

Not only in India, I have seen that academic researchers all over the world generally go for journal publications and industry people go for patents rather than journal publications.

I am agree with Francis. but I think this is happen due to lack of awareness only.

I do agree with both Francis and Rajeev , it is also because of lengthy procedures of Patent offices and most of the inventors wont stand in one institute/university and they are on move most of the time.

Reason one: In India the patent right is not a big enough carrot to lure the researcher into filing a patent application. Maybe the research subject has no commercial value. Maybe the cost to commercialize the technology is too big a hurdle for the researcher to climb over. Maybe the Patents Act in India provides too little protection for patents.

Reason two: The university or research institution where the researcher works do not have licensing department or policy to recoup the value of IP rights. A researcher needs professional help when deciding whether to file a patent application for his/her new discoveries. Writing a patent is different from writing a paper. Even if the researcher is awarded a patent, he/she may have trouble selling the patent right.

Reason three: Publish or perish. If no extra bonus is provided by a patent application when compared with a paper, most researchers would choose publishing a paper: much quicker to publish and much easier to write (no claims at all).

No awareness about procedure of patent.

In USA every third person knows procedure of patent and in India 01 person among 1000 knows procedure.

Can we file patent application before submitting a paper to journal/conference. A long back, I called patent office in India, they said that it can be done? Any idea, please share

in usa take much less time to approve patent. our patent office like patent agent. money matters and paper publication is free and get reputation for phd students.

Yes, Jitender. It is possible.

Yes Sir. Really a good question. In India, for academics "Journal Publication" is being fixed as monthly / yearly target from the officials of University / College for self-appraisal and all.

The level of achievement of an academic researcher in India is usually gauged in this order:

Getting Funded Project > Trying funded project > Assisting funded project as Co-Pi > Research paper publication > 100 % Result.

Above mentioned parameters are getting the funds In. But patent is all about spending some fund Out to achieve it. Thats all

The research publication give more visibility to the researcher among academic fraternity. The patent on the other hand is a time consuming process and therefore possibility of time delay in discovery and publicity.