A school for Intellectual Property law
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Intellectual Property Rights represent a complex area that will have an increasing impact on businesses of the future. A new college is being started to offer courses in IPR law.
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Professor Shishir K. Dube, Director of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, and Vinod Gupta, Distinguished Alumnus and Life Fellow of IIT Kharagpur, have signed an agreement for setting up the country's first School of Intellectual Property Law.
The Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law (RGSOIPL) will seek to fulfil the immediate need for a large number of Indian lawyers well-versed in Intellectual Property Law (IPL). Their services are needed to protect the intellectual property generated by Indian scientists, engineers and technologists in the sunrise sectors such as biotechnology, nanotechnology, bioinformatics, Information Technology and computer software.
Mr. Vinod Gupta's proposal was accepted by the Ministry of Human Resource Development and IIT Kharagpur to commission this specialised Law School, as a part of IIT Kharagpur, on a fast track basis.
Mr. Vinod Gupta was behind the setting up of the School of Management in his name (VGSOM) — School of Business Management at IIT-Kharagpur in 1991. He made an endowment of $2 million.
RGSOIPL will receive a million dollar donation from Mr. Gupta to build the initial infrastructure. The academic programmes will start in July this year.
The project, including buildings, classrooms, laboratories, library and moot court would be completed by next year-end.
The first two flagship programmes to be offered are a 3-year, 6-semester fully residential programme for LLB degree with Honours in Technology and Intellectual Property Law (IPL) and a one-and-half year (two teaching semesters and the last semester of internship) part-time Diploma Programme in Intellectual Property Law (IPL) for working executives — to be conducted at Kharagpur and IIT Kharagpur's extension centres in Kolkata and Bhubaneswar.
Eligibility: For both programmes, a B.E or B.Tech or an M.Sc or an MBA with science background.
For the diploma programme, lawyers with LLB degree are also eligible.
Admission
A written test will be conducted at centres across the country by April-end or early May. It will be followed by a group discussion and personal interview. Selection of candidates will be announced by May-end through the media and IIT-Kharagpur website (www.iitkgp.ernet.in) .
Brochures and application forms for the courses will be available by March-end.
In January, the institute signed a technical collaboration agreement (TCA) with George Washington University (GWU), whose Law School is rated as one of the world's top schools for IPL. This will make assistance available from GWU for faculty, curriculum, syllabus, learning materials, electronic library and faculty training.
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