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FOR PATENTING: Mukundan Seshadri, Chief Executive Officer, Blue File Corporation, speaking at a training programme on "Intellectual Property and Innovation Management in the Knowledge Era" at the Government College of Technology in Coimbatore on Tuesday. —
COIMBATORE: Don’t let your innovations be latent. Ask for your patent. This was the message that was put across by the experts here on Tuesday.
Speaking at the two-day training on Intellectual Property and Innovation Management in Knowledge Era at the Government College of Technology (GCT), Mukundan Seshadri, Chief Executive Officer, Blue File Corporation, the U.S., underlined the importance of developing an idea and bringing it to the market. The programme was organised jointly with the National Research Development Corporation (NRDC), New Delhi.
Knowledge era
“We have to become an inventive country. Making innovations today can be fast-paced because it is a knowledge era. We should stop taking ideas from other countries. If we do not attach more importance to Intellectual Property, we will not be able to bring our innovations to the market,” Mr. Seshadri said.
He urged the participants to use innovation to develop an ecosystem that would be useful for the society.
He underlined the need to give back wealth to the society and not to restrict to oneself.
“If we do not give Intellectual Property its due, we will continue to be an eight-dollar per hour country. We should strive to become an eighty-dollar per hour country,” he said.
S. Chandrasekaran, Intellectual Property Appellate Board, Chennai, called for collaborative learning.
“Exercising a right over what you have created is a must. Protecting one’s inventions, innovations and trade narks in the face of international competition is very important in the global scenario.” C.M. Gaind, Joint Director, NRDC, S. Annadurai, Principal of GCT, and M. Nataraj, Organising Secretary, spoke.
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