Need to create awareness about IPR stressed

A senior DRDO official stresed the need to create awareness about Intellectual Property Rights among various stakeholders and said they had taken efforts to improve the standard and importance of IPR in new fields.

"There is a need on awareness about IPR among various stakeholders. DRDO has taken efforts to improve the standard of research and importance of IPR in new research fields," Director of the Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences, DRDO," Ajaykumar Singh said.

He was speaking after an IPR cell was inaugurated at Bharathiar University here today.

Listing out the role of the Central Government, Dr S P Subramaniyan, Patent Officer, Government of India, explained the rules and ways to filing the patent and its benefits.

University Vice-Chancellor Dr A Ganapthi stressed on protecting the knowledge at global level, a University release said.

He detailed about the role of IPR cell in university premises.

A special website was launched for IPR cell (www.

ipr.b-u.ac.in) with details about vision, objective, IPR forms and procedure for filing a patent and to help young researchers and students to know more about on IPR.

Various aspects of IPR, its importance, basic concepts and procedures relating to registration of patents,copyrights, Trademarks and Geographical Indications were highlighted at the inaugural, in which 400 persons attended.