Changing Dimensions of Intellectual Property Rights in Present Economics Perspective

ALIGARH February 4: The Department of law is organizing National Seminar on “Changing Dimensions of Intellectual Property Rights in Present Economics Perspective” on February 6-7, 2010. The backdrop of the seminar is ingrained in the belief that the poorly equipped intellectual property (IP) bar and limited juristic understanding of IP laws call for a fair balance between the interests and rights of intellectual labourers on the one hand and imperatives of rapid creativeness and inventiveness in Indian knowledge-based liberalized economy. It pervades all sectors of economy and is increasingly becoming important for ensuring competitiveness of the enterprises in the form of patents; trademarks; geographical indications; industrial designs; layout-designs (Topographies) of integrated circuits; plant variety protection and copyright, undisclosed information, trade secrets, and traditional knowledge.

The two day national seminar on, therefore, is timely and thematic for deliberation on the following thrust areas for meaningful deliberation and recommendation of strategies for IP management arid legislative reforms.

1. Impact of WTO and IPR Realization.

2. Enforcement of TRIPS Agreement.

3. Patent Laws, Indian Innovations and Licensing Policies. IV. Challenges of Copyright and cyberspace.

4. Traditional knowledge and management in Plant variety, Geographical Indication on food and Biodiversity and Its impact.

5. Emergence of Designs and Trade mark laws. VII. Trade secret and Competitive law in liberalized economy.

Professor (Dr.) N .R. Madhava Menon, noted jurist will deliver keynote address and His Excellency Dominic Keating, of Intellectual Property Rights Cell of U.S. Embassy will deliver inaugural address. More than fifty delegates from different part of India are participating in the seminar. The experts on intellectual property rights include Professor Autar Krishen Koul, Former Vice Chancellor. National Law School of Jodhpur, Professor S.K.Verma, Director General of Indian Society of International Law, New Delhi, Professor V. Tayal, former Vice Chancellor, Bikaner University, Bikaner, Mr. R. K. Trivedi, Registrar Plant Variety ,Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi, Mansi Chaudhary, Senior Patent Attorney Natraj & Natraj, New Delhi will deliver key note presentations. Delegates from UP, Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, Orissa, Rajasthan and MP.

The strength, weakness, opportunities and threat (SWOT) analysis of IPR becomes not only timely but emergent for Indian situation of knowledge driven liberalized economy. Though we have vast strength in science and technology and industrial infrastructure we have to come over the weakness of technology gap to cope with new regime. The IPR regime is indeed a Faustian challenge and two day national seminar endeavours to deliberate on these issues to concretize recommendations for a better IP management in new economic perspective.