National Webinar on IPR

A National Webinar on “Intellectual Property Rights Awareness Programme (NIPAM)” was organised by The Patent Office, Kolkata, under Department for Promotion of Industry and  Internal Trade (DPIIT), Ministry of Commerce & Industry in association with Department of  Chemistry of The Bhawanipur Education Society College on 4th March 2022. This webinar was coordinated by Dr.Saugata Konar with other members of the organizing committee (Department of Chemistry and Seminar Committee of Science Section). 

Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) are a set of exclusive rights protected by law which are accorded to creators or persons over their creations for a certain time period. An IP right holder can realize value from its intellectual assets through utilizing it internally for its own processes or  share it externally through provision of goods and services to customers. 

The property right, pertaining to such intangible assets, is called Intellectual Property Rights,  popularly known as IPR. It share many of the characteristics associated with the conventional concept of personal property. Further, by acquiring a legal right over the property, the creator of the intellectual property seeks to ensure that he has exclusive right over it and that the property can be put to use by others only with his consent. Besides, ownership of Intellectual  Property Right is the legal recognition and reward you receive for your creative efforts, in the context of the global market scenario. 

The main objective of the program was to create a general awareness about Intellectual Property  (IP), the advantages and the need of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to protect their own  IPs. Others objectives are – 1) to assist States in creating/developing a strong IP ecosystem, 2) to identify protectable innovations, 3) to use IP information, particularly relating to patents and designs, for further research and development in developing new product and process. 

The resource person was Shri Koushik Pal, Examiner of Patents and Design, The Patent Office,  Kolkata. The distinguished resource person enriched all with the modern topics of interest. 

After the technical session several questions were received from the valued participants in the  comment box and our speaker communicated those questions with proper explanations. The  number of participants in this webinar was 334. The webinar was held in the academic session  2021-2022. The webinar was hundred percent successful and no problem was encountered  during the webinar. Feedback was received from the participants through online process  followed by sending an e-certificate of participation to the participants. The webinar was  organised in the following Webex meeting link: https://patentofficekolkata.webex.com/patentofficekolkata/j.php?MTID=m0d4ccaf58abc37ab1e0 e816908e3a585