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Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) protection plays a key role in
gaining an advantageous position in the competitive technology game
for achieving economic growth. Karnataka enjoys large scientific
human resources in India with state of the art research and
technology centres and scientific establishments in the country.
Bangalore, the capital of the state of Karnataka is an acclaimed
information technology centre of the world repute. Thus information
on various technological advancements should be disseminated to the
users of technology in order for our country to develop faster. Thus
a culture to make aware of development of technology to pertinent
users is essential. This has become more pronounced in the
globalised economy with international agreements and obligations in
the fields of IPR in the WTO regime. Huge information is to be
provided while filing a patent application in order to ensure full
disclosure of the invention. Thus, the patent information provides
the large single source of technical information in the world today.
However, access to this information and other facilities related to
IPR are really inadequately available in the academic and other
institutions in India.
As a first step in this direction to provide patent related services
particularly to the S&T community, Patent Facilitation Centre
started functioning under Technology Information, Forecasting and
Assessment Council of Department of Science and Technology,
Government of India - a few years back. As a state level extension
patent information centre was set up at Karnataka State Council for
Science and Technology, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore for
Karnataka State. The centre started functioning from 31st of March
2005 as a service centre to render IPR related services among S & T
community.
Intellectual property is a "Product of Mind". It is similar to the
property consisting of movable and immovable property which can be
used by the owner along and not lawfully by others without
owners permission. World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
provides that "Intellectual Property" includes rights related to
works in literary and artistic fields, performance of artists,
broadcasts (in the form of CD, DVD, tape recording etc), innovations
in science and technology, industrial designs, trade marks, service
marks, etc.
Inventions in all fields of human endeavour and protection against
unfair competition and all other rights resulting from intellectual
activity in the industrial, scientific or artistic fields.
Forms of protection
1. Patents : Patent is an exclusive right granted by a
country to the owner of an innovation to make, use, manufacture and
market the invention, provided the innovation satisfies certain
criteria - like having novelty, inventive step and industrial
application (please refer FAQs about Patents).
2. Copyrights : Copyright is a right granted to the owner for
creating an original literary or dramatic or musical or artistic
work. Cinematographic films including sound track and video films
and recordings on discs, tapes etc are also covered by copyrights.
Computer programs and software are covered under literary works and
are protected in India under copyrights.
3. Trademarks : Trademark is a distinctive sign, which
identifies certain goods or services as those produced or provided
by a specific person or enterprise. Trademarks may be one or
combination of words, letters, and numerals and may also consist of
drawings, symbols, two / three dimensional signs or colours, used as
distinguishing feature.
4. Industrial design : Industrial Design means the features
of shape, configuration, pattern, ornament or composition of lines
or colours applied to any article by any industrial or manual
process or means and which are judged solely by the perception of
the eye.
5. Geographical indications : Geographical Indications (GI)
means an indication which identifies certain agricultural or natural
or manufactured goods as originating or manufactured in the
territory of a country, or a region or locality in that territory,
where a given quality, reputation or other characteristics of such
goods is essentially attributable to its geographical origin.
6. Layout design of integrated circuits : Layout Design of
Integrated Circuit includes a layout of transistors and other
circuitry elements and includes lead wires connecting such elements
and expressed in any manner in a semiconductor integrated circuit
(IC), designed to perform an electronic circuitry function.
7. Trade secrets : Trade Secret, also referred as undisclosed
information, includes formula, pattern, compilation, programme,
device, method, technique or process. It is perhaps the most
important form of protection for industries and R&D institutions.
8. Plant variety protection : Plant Variety Protection and
Farmer’s Rights (PVPFR) is a system for protection of plant
varieties, the rights of farmers and plant breeders and to encourage
the development of new varieties of plants. Criteria for protection
a new plant variety are distinctness, uniformity, stability, novelty
and appropriate denomination (generic designation).
Who are benefited?
The owner of such
intellectual property can make use of the property for commercial
exploitation and also can prohibit infringement by others. This
plays a key role in gaining advantageous position in these days of
competition for technological development and consequent economic
growth of the country. This has become more pronounced in present
day global economy with so many international agreements and
obligations in the field of IPR in the World Trade Organisation (WTO) regime.
OBJECTIVES OF
PATENT CELL
To create awareness
about IPRs, especially patents, in the state and neighboring regions
of this centre.
To enable patent
searches for universities, industry, government departments and R&D
institutions in the State
To guide inventors in
respect of patenting their inventions.
PATENT AWARENESS
PROGRAMMES AT REGIONAL CENTRES
As a first step
towards achieving these objectives, KSCST, with the support of
TIFAC,
Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi intends to conduct
"Patent Awareness Programmes" at some regional centres to cover the
entire state. The main objective of these programmes is to make
technocrats, academicians and industry aware of patents and
patenting system, other forms of IPRs like copyrights, trademarks
etc, relevant procedures and implications of such act of holding
IPRs. It is intended that the participants for these programmes are
to include people from industry, students and faculty from
universities, medical, engineering and agricultural colleges,
polytechnics, research institutions, other innovators in and around
these regional centres and neighbouring districts.
PATENT AWARENESS PROGRAMME
AT REGIONAL CENTRES
IPR AWARENESS PROGRAMMES ORGANISED AT
LOCAL ENGINEERING COLLEGES
IPR WORKSHOPS ORGANISED JOINTLY
WITH KARNATATAKA COUNCIL FOR TECHNOLOGICAL UPGRADATION (KCTU)
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