Centre Announces

International Advanced Training Course on
Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) for NAM and Other Developing Countries,
New Delhi, India, 12-17 July 2010
 

Intellectual property (IP) refers to creations of the mind: inventions, literary and artistic works, and symbols, names, images, and designs used in commerce. IPR is legal concept that enables entities and people to control and benefit from their creativity and innovation. IP is divided into two categories: Industrial property, which includes inventions (patents), trademarks, industrial designs, and geographic indications of source; and Copyright, which includes literary and artistic works such as novels, poems and plays, films, musical works, artistic works such as drawings, paintings, photographs and sculptures, and architectural designs. Under IP law, owners are granted certain exclusive rights to a variety of intangible assets, such as musical, literary and artistic works; ideas, discoveries and inventions; and words, phrases, symbols, and designs. Copyrights, trademarks, patents, and industrial design rights are various forms in which intellectual property is granted to applicants. It plays an important role in an increasingly broad range of areas, ranging from the Internet to health care to nearly all aspects of science and technology, literature and the arts.

In a world, where the economic growth of nations is driven increasingly by the creativity and knowledge of their people, effective IP systems, which provide incentives for innovation and create structures for sharing the results, are key to unlocking this human potential. Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) give statutory expression to the moral and economic privileges for the creators, safeguarding them and other producers of intellectual goods and services by granting them certain time-limited rights to control the use made of those productions. Most of the developing countries are very rich in traditional wisdom and the changed global scenario poses a major challenge for them not only in preserving such long-established knowledge but also in harnessing their intellectual prowess through creation, protection and exploitation of new knowledge. Awareness and sensitivities about IPR have increased globally and mechanisms for their protecting have grown rapidly, at different rates in different sectors and nations, but many developing countries lack legal, scientific and administrative capacity to enforce IPR.

To keep abreast of the growing significance of IPR, to deliberate upon its role in sustainable development and to impart skills and knowledge on the principles and practices on the protection of IPR, the Centre for Science & Technology of the Non-Aligned and Other Developing Countries (NAM S&T Centre), jointly with the Patent Facilitating Centre (PFC) of the Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council (TIFAC), Government of India, is organising a six days “International Advanced Training Course on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) for NAM and Other Developing Countries” during 12-17 July 2010 in New Delhi, India. This programme is being supported by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India. The Training Course would be aimed at, providing in-depth knowledge and sharing of information on various aspects of IPR, exchanging country specific information about IPR, and promoting scientist-to-scientist contact and interactions.

The Centre invites nominations from the concerned government departments and policy makers, academic and R&D personnel and representatives of private bodies working in the relevant areas in the developing countries to participate in the training course. The last date for submission of nominations is 11^th June 2010.

For further details, please visit the website of the Centre http://www.namstct.org