# Professor Anindya Ghose is quoted in a feature story about hurdles for startups filing patents in India

1 Faculty News March 28, 2018 ![Quartz logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_038218.gif?itok=JIQPnzXd)>

Excerpt from [Quartz](https://qz.com/1232227/treebo-hotels-wants-to-take-the-difficult-path-to-success-with-patents/) -- "'Filing patents is common practice in other parts of the world but the importance of filing patents has only of late become apparent to startups in India,' said [Anindya Ghose](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/anindya-ghose), the Heinz Riehl professor of business at New York University."

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