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Workshop underscores role of IPR for SMEs
A WORKSHOP on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) for small medium scale industries was organised by the India Trade and Investment development programme (TIDP) and the Waterfall Institute of Technology Transfer, New Delhi (WITT) in cooperation with the Small Scale Service Institute Kanpur and Indian Industrial Association (IIA) here today.
A WORKSHOP on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) for small medium scale industries was organised by the India Trade and Investment development programme (TIDP) and the Waterfall Institute of Technology Transfer, New Delhi (WITT) in cooperation with the Small Scale Service Institute Kanpur and Indian Industrial Association (IIA) here today.
The workshop started with the welcome addressed by the representatives of SISI Kanpur, making the audience aware about the role of TIDP-IPR components.
The main aim of the workshop was to enhance awareness among the industries and the technical institutes about the importance of IPR.
Speaking on the occasion, former managing director of the National Research Development Cooperation NK Sharma said that any industry or business whether traditional or modern, regardless of what product or service it produces or provides, is likely to regularly use intellectual property to prevent others from taking advantage of its goodwill in the market place.
He said that every industry or business should systematically take the steps required for identifying, protecting and managing its intellectual property assets, so as to gain the best possible commercial results from its ownership.
Sharma further informed that if a business or industrial enterprise is intended to use an intellectual property asset belonging to some one else, it should consider buying it or acquiring the rights to use it by taking a license in order to avoid disputes and consequent expensive litigation.
A business or industry could encounter legal problems for inadvertently violating the intellectual property rights of others out of sheer ignorance of the intellectual property system. Hence, a basic understanding of the intellectual property system has become a prerequisite for success in the market place.
He said that intellectual property has become an important asset of economic prosperity of a country. It has been accepted globally that a good part of future wealth lies in intellectual creation.
To achieve this every country was encouraging research and development activity, he added.
He also made the viewers aware about the various types of IPR like patent, copywriter, industrial design, trademark, confidential information and layouts of integrated circuits.
He also made the people aware about the ideas generation and identification of research and development projects.
The State president of IIA Tarun Khetrapal also addressed the workshop and made everyone aware about the ideas generation and identification of research and development projects, the role of IPR in the fortune of SMEs, patenting invention and technology upgrade, other PR rights, and also the protection for IPR infringement, damages and disputes settlement.
The workshop was presided over by the director of Small industries service institute (SISI), Gorakh Prasad. Chairman of IIA-Kanpur Sunil Vaishya proposed a vote of thanks.
Other than the students from various technical institutions and many industrialists Professor SK Sharma, DR KV Swaminathan and Gorakh Prasad participated in the workshop.
