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`Patenting only way to protect technology'

By Our Special Correspondent

DHARWAD, JAN. 8. India, with its vast treasure of knowledge, is likely to benefit from patenting, particularly with the country getting ready to meet the obligations under the World Trade Organisation Agreement on Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), Venkataraman, Assistant Controller of Patents, Chennai, has said.

Delivering the inaugural address at a programme to spread awareness on intellectual property rights organised by the Centre for Intellectual Property Rights Research and Advocacy of the National Law School of India University, Bangalore, and the Postgraduate Department of Law of Karnatak University here on Saturday, Mr. Venkataraman said the whole world is concerned about converting knowledge into wealth. The need of the hour is to come out with innovations, he said and added that patenting is the only way to protect technology, be it frontier technology (inventions) or "improvemental" technology (application of technology). Mr. Venkataraman said even artistes and performers can avail themselves of the benefits of patents.

T. Ramakrishna, coordinator of the research centre, said Dharwad has been the hub of knowledge in the north Karnataka region as it has been home to many inventors and literary doyens. It is necessary that the "creator" has to prosper. Hence, his/her work should be protected under law, he added. The research institute, he said, has been concentrating on biotechnology and information technology. Scientists and enforcement authorities should be sensitised to new developments, he added.

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The centre has also hosted a website (www.iprlawinsia.org) for those interested in knowing more about intellectual property rights, he said.

K.R. Aithal, Dean of the Law department, who presided over the function, said Indians are not in a position to cash in on developments in the field of patenting owing to ignorance of law.

C. Rajsekhar, Gopal Dabde, Mr. Ramakrishna, Mr. Venkataraman and Kalyan Chakravarty participated as resource persons in various sessions on the significance of intellectual property rights, the patenting procedure and patenting of life forms and patenting of pharmaceuticals. About 60 delegates comprising science teachers, investors, industrialists and professionals participated in the programme.

C.S. Patil, principal of the University College of Law, welcomed the gathering. Ramesh proposed a vote of thanks.

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