Seminar series on Awareness on IPR

Name of the Department: IPMC (Intellectual Property Management Cell)

Name of the Event/Activity/Workshop/Seminar: Seminar series on Awareness on IPR

Date: 22-30 July, 2015

Venue: A-202

Topic on which activity was organized: Awareness on IPR and Legal protection of research outputs and other Intellectual properties

No. of Participants: 81

Objective of the workshop/seminar/activity:

To discuss legal protection of research outputs and other Intellectual properties with faculty members

Description:

To promote awareness about IPR, IPMC organized a seminar series for Faculty of Arts

and Faculty of Commerce and Management department wise by Mr. Pankaj Kumar, IP Attorney. The session focused on various topics including Introduction to IPR, Trademark protection, Industrial design protection, Copyright protection and Government initiatives including funding agencies and IP awards. The faculty members were also acquainted with the initiatives and working of IPMC. The queries of the faculty members regarding protection of their research work were also answered. The faculty members of the said faculties attended the sessions according to the scheduled dates.

Outcome of the activity/event/seminar/workshop:

The faculty participants learnt about IPR, Patentable subject matter, Prior-art search & search databases, Patent specification, Procedure for registration of various IPR including copyright, design, patents etc, Government initiatives including funding agencies and IP awards.