The managers of Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP) are now being made aware of the various facets of ‘Intellectual Property Rights’ (IPR) through workshops. In this context, a day-long workshop on ‘Intellectual Property Rights’ (IPR) was held at BMDC on Saturday (July 5) here, a Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP) press release issued here stated. Anjan Sen eminent expert on IPR was the faculty for the workshop. The ‘IPR Awareness Programme’ was inaugurated by Chaitanya Rishi, General Manager (HRD), BSP.
He briefed about importance of filing patents and copyrights. PK Prusty, DGM I/c (PC), RDCIS/SAIl, Ranchi provided a brief introduction of Anjan Sen, and briefed about IPR activities being carried out in SAIl. DK Thakur, Sr Manager (IDC), RDCIS/SAIl also briefed participants about the programme.
RDCIS is the nodal agency of SAIl for filing patents and copyrights on behalf of SAIl plants and units. RDCIS has also been assigned the job of creating awareness towards IPR in the company and disseminate relevant information related to procedure for filing of Patents.
The topics covered during the seminar were-overview on IPR, Patentability of inventions-novelty and non-obviousness issues, Art of presentation of technical disclosure in Patent Specification and claim forming and exercise on drafting of Patent Specification.
RDCIS has filed total of 678 Patents and 508 Copyrights till 31.03.2014 on behalf of SAIl. Out of this, 364 Patents and 453 Copyrights have been granted. It is worth mentioning that Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Policy and objective document was released on July 1, 2014 by R K Rathi, Executive Director I/c RDCIS, at Ranchi.
lalit Popat, Deputy Manager (BMDC), BSP conducted this programme. The programme was organized with initiative of Chaitanya Rishi, GM (HRD), Sidhartha Dubey, DGM(HRD), BSP, Dr (Mrs) Usha Rani, DGM I/c, RDCIS Bhilai Centre and PK Thakur (AGM) RDCIS Bhilai Centre.