The Hindu : National : Centre plans 10 IPR chairs in universities

Online edition of India's National Newspaper
Thursday, Mar 17, 2005

National

National

Centre plans 10 IPR chairs in universities

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI, MARCH 16. The Government has decided to set up ten additional Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) chairs to generate capacity within the country to deal with available and growing knowledge wealth in the country.

These will be in addition to the existing six professional chairs set up in the law departments of as many universities across the country.

Of the ten new chairs, three will be on Intellectual Property Management at the Indian Institutes of Management in Ahmedabad, Kolkata and Bangalore.

Five chairs will be for IPRs pertaining to patents, trademarks, industrial designs and geographical indicators and will be at the Indian Institutes of Technology in Delhi, Kharagpur, Chennai, Mumbai and Kanpur.

Besides, the Delhi School of Economics at Delhi University and the Centre for Economic School for Economic Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University will have a chair each on IPR and Development.

These chairs will become operational from the coming academic year.

According to a release issued by the Human Resource Development Ministry, the rationale behind setting up ten professional chairs was to take the exercise of capacity building on IPR issues out of legal departments since intellectual property issues have become multi-disciplinary and demand a combination of technological, legal and management expertise.

Printer friendly page
Send this article to Friends by E-Mail

National