Marking the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Day on Saturday, a national seminar on “Development and Protection of IPR in Jharkhand” was organised at National University of Study and Research in law (NUSRl).
The relevance of this day was underlined by Vivek Dokhalia, IP attorney Kumaran and Sagar firm from New Delhi who was the special guest here.
He said that in present scenario, the world of transformation relates to communication and transportation. “These communication means have undergone a drastic change. Earlier, it took days to communicate or send messages but with the technological advancement, you can send your message on one click. This is the hard work of inventors who have put in their labour to innovate new technologies for improving the quality of life. To protect the interest of inventors we need to protect it by legislations. Thus, the role of IPR comes in to the picture,” he added.
Justice S Chandrashekhar started his speech from the historical background of IP laws in India and in the world. He then moved on to the current scenario. According to Justice Chandrashekhar, from 1957 to 2003, it took almost 45 years to bring about the policy. Earlier, it used to be regulation that governed the area of IPR.
He said, “Immigration of talent from India to abroad is a serious problem. We lack an ecosystem that promotes Research and Development. Here performance is not rewarded rather rewards are based on parikrama.”
“In global innovation index India’s position in 2007 was 27 and in 2010 it was 56 this shows that India lacked behind to its competitors like China whose position in 2009 was 12 but was third in 2010. This shows that China is spending a huge chunk of money in R&D,” added the Justice.
Describing the importance of this seminar the law cradle’s Vice-Chancellor Dr BC Nirmal hoped that it will create awareness among stakeholders about the importance of protection of IPR in Jharkhand.
Inspector General (Provision and Budgeting) Anurag Gupta was the special guest of honour. He criticized the legislative loop holes in the IP laws in India. Also, he pointed out brain drain as an important factor in not being able to go for path of innovation. Citing an example he spoke about Vinod Khoshla of Sun Microteck (USA), amongst the 60,000 IIT alumni who preferred USA over India for their career.