Workshop on IPRS

REPORT OF WORKSHOP ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS (IPRs)

A workshop was conducted on 04.12.2021. Mr. Pankaj Kumar was the spokesperson of that event. About 90 participants attended the lecture.

TheRespected Dr S.S. Boken,Principal, DPG Degree College, Gurugram College, extended his warm welcome and introduced the college to the resource person. The program was followed by the with welcome of dignitaries by Dr. Amita Singh, with a brief introduction of the event by the Organizing coordinator.

The inaugural session was ended at 04:15 pm. The Technical session included the Scholarly and interesting talk by Mr. Pankaj Kumaron “ IPR – Tool to protect Inventions and Creations”.His lecture started with the topic ,‘What is Intellectual Property’.Then he discussed on different aspects of Intellectual Properties like What is a Patent, Patent Rights, Trademarks, Industrial Design, Geographical Indication,IC Layout (Semiconductor,Trade Secret ,Copyright, Protection of plant verities, Farmers’ Rights and Researchers’Rights.He concluded the talk by explaining the rationale of protection and the nature of IPR . IPR are monopoly rights.

In next session the presentation began with explaining the various aspects of copy right. He discussed in detail about the topics like ‘ What is copyright?’, What do we mean by author or creator?’ Originality of Literary works, Judicial decisions( Copyright in judgments produced by courts vs government) etc.He concluded the session by discussing about Trademark”, “Service Mark and Collective mark. His presentation was much informative as she cited interesting case studies .

Then he emphasized that IPR have to be renewed from time to time for keeping them enforced except in case of copyright and trade secrets.

Then a questionnaire and answer round started around 5:20pm in which students asked few interesting questions and clear their doubts.

The main aim was to focus on the need of Intellectual Property Rights.The workshop consisted of number of sessions in which presentations on various aspects of IPR were given by the experts and the session was followed by a discussion.

The workshop will provide the participants with an understanding of IP laws and the extent to which it protects inventions and designs.