A two-day awareness programme on ‘Intellectual Property Rights’ was conducted at BHEl, Bhopal. SR Prasad, executive director BHEl, Bhopal, inaugurated the programme on this occasion. PD Gupta, senior patent attorney, M/s lS Davar and Company, Kolkata, general managers, engineering HODs, many inventors and authors were present at the event.
On this occasion deliberations were made on the strategies for protection of IPRs, Patent Infringement & opposition, case studies and guidelines to be adopted for the senior officials on the opening day of the event. The second and third sessions were held for the middle management and engineers from various product groups in Bhopal.
Speaking on this occasion Prasad emphasised that the intellectual property is the backbone of any company which can bring in revenue through licensing, improve company’s balance sheet, increase stock value and can also be used as collateral for loans or other financial operations. He further said that BHEl has established patent cells in all units to aid IP filings.
Earlier Dheeman Sen, GM (P&D, IT and Feeders) welcomed Prasad and the faculties with floral bouquet. G Ramakrishna, AGM (engineering coordination) and gave an overview on the design of the program and proposed the vote of thanks.
Intellectual property (IP) is a legal concept which refers to creations of mind for which exclusive rights are recognised. Intellectual property rights are the rights given to persons over the creations of their minds. They usually give the creator an exclusive right over the use of his/her creation for a certain period of time.