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Workshop discusses features of Intellectual Property Rights

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`Patent Awareness' programme organised by St. Joseph's College

TIRUCHI : Salient features of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), patenting systems and protocols in India, novelty and inventiveness in patenting, procedures for filing patent applications, and prosecuting patent infringements were highlighted at the inaugural of a workshop on `Patent Awareness' organised by the Department of Biotechnology, St. Joseph's College, here on Friday.

The event, sponsored by Technology Information Forecasting and Assessment Council (TIFAC), Department of Science and Technology (DST), New Delhi, and Tamil Nadu State Council for Science and Technology, Chennai, sought to sensitise the participants to the critical link between managing internal intellectual property, legal strategy, research and development investment decisions, and activity pursued by potential competitors, licensees or litigation adversaries, said G. Melchias, Organising Secretary and Head, Department of Biotechnology.

The participants comprised teachers from universities and colleges, researchers, Research and Development personnel from industries, and post-graduates from science and technology disciplines.

In his presentation on `Introduction to IPR and Some Case Studies', Yeshwant Dev Panwar, Senior Scientific Officer, Patent Facilitating Centre, TIFAC, DST, explained that while IPR, which assumed prominence at the eighth round of talks at Uruguay, pertained to territorial rights, copyright was under Berne Convention, providing protection to expression, and not to ideas/concepts. IPR Monopoly rights, renewed periodically and a dominating factor for export market, can be enjoyed in more than one country, he said.

In his special address, E. Ramasaamy, Member Secretary, TNSTC, Chennai, urged the teaching community to present papers at workshops abroad, and informed that the TNSTC was prepared to bear 50 per cent of their travelling expenses. The Principal, Rev. Fr. R. Rajarathinam, and Senior Scientific Officer, TNSTC, Dhanapal, offered felicitations. The Rector, Rev. Fr. S. Lazar, presided.

V. Rengasamy, Assistant Controller of Patents and Design, Chennai, Surya Senthil, Patent Attorney, Surana and Surana International, Chennai, and M. K. Chakrabarti, Patent Attorney, Kolkata, handled sessions on Patenting System in India, Novelty and Inventiveness in Patents, and Copyright Management respectively.

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