GOVT. URGED TO FACILITATE IPR STUDY
At a National Seminar
organized here today to mark the world intellectual property day,
the government was urged to facilitate study of Intellectual Property
Rights (IPR) in the academia. Giving the clarion call for this,
while inaugurating the seminar, the Minister of State for Science
and Technology Shri Bachi Singh Rawat underlined the need to set
up IPR departments at universities and colleges with close cooperation
among law, natural sciences and economic departments. The seminar
on patents, protection, valuation and commercialization was organized
jointly by the National Research Development Corporation and the
Controller General, Patents, Designs and Trade marks.
Highlighting the
need for a cycle of intellectual creation whereby technologies
evolved are properly IPR-protected for effective exploitation
and recognized as property of high economic value, Shri Rawat
said, there is growing desire for strong IPR protection world
wide, after the establishment of the WTO-TRIPS agreement. He also
pointed out that patenting without commercialization will have
no meaning, as value exploitation must go hand in hand. Awareness
creation about patenting also assumes greater significance in
this era of globalisation, Shri Rawat said.
The Managing Director
of the NRDC Shri N.K. Sharma said, the Corporation has evolved
a multi-media training package on IPR from which all can benefit.
The NRDC, a technology transfer organization has also set up its
own IPR Consultancy Division for the benefit of the Industry,
Shri Sharma said.
Keeping pace with
the fast changing scenario in IPR, the seminar was specially designed
to cater to indepth exposition of Patent procedures, effective
protection, most economical routes to obtain IPR in developed
countries etc.
