INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS (IPR) AWARENESS PROGRAM

IMI Bhubaneswar organized an Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) awareness program on the 8th of June 2022 (Wednesday) under the flagship of Kalam Program for Intellectual Property Literacy and Awareness Campaign (KAPILA) powered by the Ministry of Education’s Innovation Cell and All India Council for Technical Education, New Delhi through virtual mode.

The speaker for the program was Shri. Pritish Ranjan Pradhan, Examiner of patents and design, Indian Patent office, Kolkata.

In his talk, Mr Pradhan covered topics like a background of Intellectual Property, importance and significance, types of Intellectual Property (Patents, Designs, Trademarks, Geographical Indications, Copyrights, Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout Designs), and the reasons for many types of Intellectual property. He briefly discussed about a Patent, Importance of Patents, Searching for Patents, Popular areas of patent filing, and also how to file Patent application in India along with the forms should one fill and the fees one has to pay.

The session was quite informative and insightful and the students made it very engaging as they gained a lot of information related to Intellectual Property Rights.