Seminar on "IPR Awareness Program"
(Under National Intellectual Property Awareness Mission)
14th February, 2023
Institution’s Innovation Council (IIC), Ministry of Education (MoE), Dronacharya Group of Institutions, Greater Noida, organized a seminar on “IPR Awareness” (Under National Intellectual Property Awareness Mission) on 14th February, 2023 at the seminar hall. Faculty members of engineering and MBA departments along with 120 students participated in the session. The eminent speaker of the session was Mr. Prashant Sharma (NIPAM Officer and Examiner of Patents and Designs, Ministry of Commerce and Industry.)
The welcome speech was given by Dr. B.M.K. Prasad as he welcomed Mr. Prashant Sharma. He also motivated the students to think innovatively in order to become successful entrepreneurs. He stressed on the importance of attending such awareness programs so that that the innovators can learn how to protect their rights.
Mr. Prashant Sharma than took charge of the dais and started the session by differentiating between a patent, copyright, trademark, industrial design and geographical indicators. Further, he gave details of role of IPR for innovations and start-ups through real life examples. Then, he briefly introduced various mechanisms to describe and protect IP. Various details of application procedures from filing to examination were also discussed in detail.
Then a detailed interaction between the speaker, faculty members and students took place. Lastly, all the participating students were facilitated with the Certificate of Participation.
The session was very useful for the students as they became aware about importance of IPR.