Workshop on ‘Intellectual Property Rights’ held at Kaveri College

 Intellectual Property plays a key role in achieving higher economic growth in a market driven

economy. To promote the awareness of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) and to encourage innovation across various disciplines, Kannada Sangha Pune’s Kaveri College of Arts, Science and Commerce under Internal Quality Assurance Cell organized a Half Day Workshop on Intellectual property Rights (IPR) on 3rd July, 2018. Prof. Ganesh Hingamire, Chairman Great Mission Group Consultancy (GMGC) was the chief guest on this occasion.

Mrs Malati Kalmadi Secretary, Kannada Sangha, Ashok M. Agrawal, Principal, Kaveri College, Vice Principal, Dr. Muckta Karmarkar, Dr. Jayashree Bangali, Head, IQAC were aleso present on the occasion.

Dr. Jayashree Bangali welcomed everyone and briefed about the agenda of the Workshop. She informed that the workshop has been organized to sensitize the participants on the basics of IPR and

its role in enhancing the quality of education, innovation and research. Mrs Malati Kalmadi Secretary, Kannada Sangha, addressed the audience and said that Kaveri always focuses on Excellence in education as Education is creating a property for the nation. She also spoke about dual Curriculum which states that the child should earn his living as well as his/her well being.

Dr. Ashok M. Agrawal, Principal, Kaveri College in his welcome speech informed the audience about the progressive journey of Kaveri College. He emphasized on the fact that India has a great tradition of intellectuals but Indians lack in proving their intellect to the world. They should learn to prove themselves as only the proven qualities are universally acceptable.

In his speech, Prof. Ganesh Hingamire made the participants aware about importance of IPRs and their protection, Patenting procedures and patent informatics, patent searches, role of innovation and

invention in the academia‐industry collaborations, trademark and copyright protection, issues of do’s and don’ts for a researcher in the context of publishing and patenting. He also spoke about the importance of IP, types of IP, IP activities carried out by IPO, trends of patent filing in India and abroad and success stories on capitalizing of IP. To provide more insight into this matter, Prof. Hingamire, has given an excellent talk on patentable, non patentable items, innovations with information on various acts and laws related to IPRs. With his long experience in this field, his lecture invoked many queries from participants and those who are working on any patentable items were highly benefited.

Participants from various colleges and Staff members were present on the occasion.