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Patent Awareness Workshop at Silchar REC
SILCHAR : The day-long Patent Awareness Workshop organised at Regional Engineering College here on May 10 was a roaring success, according to a message received from the REC.
The workshop was held to create awareness about the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), Patent & Copyright issues and was sponsored by the Technology Information Forecasting and Assessment Council (TIFAC), Department of Science & Technology (DST), Government of India.
In all 130 participants from different educational and R&D institutes of North Eastern Region took part in the workshop, the highlight of which was a brain-storming two-hour question and answer session.
The workshop began with the welcome address by Mr. Kishor Chandra Satpathy, Coordinator, Centre for Educational Technology and the Coordinator of the Patent Awareness Workshop. Prof. Rajat Gupta, Dean of Students Affairs introduced the guests and the resource persons of the workshop to the participants.
Prof. B U A Barbhuiya, Principal (i/c), REC, Silchar in his inaugural address highlighted the role and the importance of IPR, Patents information in the context of scientific innovations.
Mr R Saha, Adviser, DST and Director, Patent Facilitation Centre, TIFAC, New Delhi and the chief guest of the programme in his address highlighted the role of PFC and TIFAC in protecting the IPR.
Mr Rajagopalan, Patent Attorney, Rajgopalan Associates, Kolkota, the guest of honour of the workshop in his address talked about the patent, The Patent Act & rules, patent law, copyright & trademark. He said that the intellectual property is the property, which has been created by exercise of intellectual faculty.
Dr. R Srinivas, Patent Examiner, Kolkota Patent Office, Kolkata explained that the patent is an exclusive right granted by a country to the owner of an invention to make, use, manufacture and market the invention, provided the invention satisfies certain conditions stipulated in the law. The right implies that no one can make, use, manufacture or market the invention with the consent of the patent holder.
At the end of the programme Mr. Kishor Chandra Satpathy, Coordinator of the workshop presented the vote of thanks.
The Center for Educational Technology at REC, Silchar has been set up under an MHRD grant as a nodal centre for manpower development on educational media and technology. It trains technical education teachers of the North Eastern Region in the areas of Educational Technology, ICT and Pedagogic Research. It organises programmes in collaboration with other institutions to promote Educational Technology, ICT and Science and Technology.
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