A day-long Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) awareness programme was organised on the occasion of World IP Day by the Uttarakhand State Council for Science and Technology (UCOST) at Vigyan Dham here on Thursday.
Speaking as the chief guest on the occasion, the Women Institute of Technology director Alaknanda Ashok said that in the past three decades although there has been an increase in percentage of women in IPR field but still there is need to raise awareness among women regarding IPR.
Addressing the gathering on the occasion as the lead speaker, SS Rana and Company (New Delhi) managing associate advocate lucy Rana elaborated on various aspects of IPR like patents, trademark, copyright, industrial design and geographical indication. Further, she also spoke of famous women innovators who had made significant impact on societies through their innovations. She also presented a picture of contribution of women scientists in innovation.
Expressing her views, Jindal Global law School, Panipat (Haryana) associate professor Sunita Tripathy spoke about commercialisation of IPR and presented information on the current scenario of IPR commercialisation in India. She further explained the aspects of commercialisation within Patent law, Trademark law and Copyright law.
The UCOST director general Rajendra Dobhal spoke about the theme of World IP Day - “Powering Change: Women in Innovation and Creativity”. He emphasised that women work daily towards improvement of lives of the people in a society but rarely do they get recognition for their work as can be seen by the low number of women inventors in patent filing. A culture of innovation should be inculcated at a very early stage from school level in students. He said that there is a need for the involvement of industry in promotion of academic system and development of research and development in a structured fashion so that it can find market easily. He reiterated the need to develop innovative attitude and mindset and encourage wild ideas with organised judgments.
UCOST scientist Anju Rawat proposed the vote of thanks on the occasion which was attended by faculty members and research scholars from different institutes and universities apart from UCOST staff.