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Patent ideas before stepping into world
PATENTING OF products has become necessary for every manufacturer, before he ventures into the global market. However, city industrialists are still ignorant about this fact and they had been trying to capture the world market without getting new ideas or products patented, said Indian Industries Association (IIA) State president Tarun Khetrapal. Khetrapal told the Hindustan Times that the biggest hurdle in the way of patenting ideas and products was the absence of research and development cell.
PATENTING OF products has become necessary for every manufacturer, before he ventures into the global market.
However, city industrialists are still ignorant about this fact and they had been trying to capture the world market without getting new ideas or products patented, said Indian Industries Association (IIA) State president Tarun Khetrapal. Khetrapal told the Hindustan Times that the biggest hurdle in the way of patenting ideas and products was the absence of research and development cell.
In the absence of this cell, it was not possible to carry out research according to the standards fixed by the world community for granting patent to any idea or product.
He said the IIA has taken up the matter with the Central Government and has urged it that suitable research facilities be provided to small scale industrialists so that they could assess the real worth of their products in the global market.
He said there was every possibility that the research lab would be set up at Lucknow soon, to facilitate small-scale industrialists.
He said though industry-related government departments held several seminars and symposia to create awareness about patents and its processes, SSIs could not benefit much. During the past two years, none of the small-scale industrialists ventured to get his product patented.
He said it was the duty of the small-scale industrialists to get acquainted with the process of patenting and try to move patent applications before others could take the advantage of their hard work in developing the innovative idea.
Beetal SD 98 launched
BHARTI TELETECH has launched direct to home (DTH) digital set top box (STB) in India, under the brand name of ‘Beetal SD 98’, here on Monday.
The STB model offers ‘free entertainment for a lifetime’ through all the free to air (FTA) channels. The model is priced at Rs 2,095.
The Beetal DTH set-top box provides facilities of multi-language support, lightning arrestor, in-built stabilizer, digital picture quality, zoom picture facility and channel-editing functions.
SD 98 has the capacity to store upto 5000 channels.
On screen display of 256 colours ensures that the viewers get bright picture to see.
On the occasion Bharti Teletech CEO Pawan Kapur said the SD 98 Beetle STB would provide a unique experience of television entertainment especially for those who do not have access to cable connections. He further said that the product was affordable and has a year’s warranty.
