National e-Workshop on Innovation and Intellectual Property Rights by CSIR-IMMT

Bhubaneswar(Kalinga Voice) : As part of sensitization activities of CSIR-IMMT: InTEC organised a one week National e-Workshop on Innovation and Intellectual Property Rights (NeW IPR-2022) with the theme IP for ALL from June 13-18, 2022 with total of 24 lecture (4 sessions a day) delivered by experts from various fields.

Prof. (Dr) Unnat P. Pandit Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trademarks (CGPDTM), Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MoC&I), Govt of India was the chief guest and inaugurated the workshop. 

During the inaugural session, Prof S Basu, Director, CSIR-IMMT has delivered the welcome address and detailed on the various activities of CSIR-IMMT and InTEC in specific and also stressed on the importance of IP in today’s global scenario.

Chief Guest of the event, Prof. (Dr) Unnat P. Pandit has appreciated the efforts of the entire organizing team and has made a special mentioning on the term NeW in NeWIPR-2022 and emphasized on various possibilities for potential contributions from Indian side attesting to the meaning of NeW. Further, he has highlighted the importance of integrating IP with our regular activities and its impact for coming generations.

Dr Ashok K Sahu, Head-InTEC proposed the vote of thanks and Dr T Pavan Kumar, Senior Scientist & Convener-NeW IPR-2022 informed the august gathering on the design and benefits of the NeW IPR-2022. Mr Bibhudatta Pradhan and Dr Mustakim were also among the InTEC team, whose collective efforts resulted in the conduct of the workshop.

Innovative Technology Enabling Center -InTEC is an incubation facility at CSIR-IMMT, recognized by startup Odisha currently hosting about 13 startups and has conducted 10 programs on IPR and sensitized about 10000 enthusiasts on this topic of global importance. Recently InTEC has initiated a program named MAITRI = Mentoring Academic Interventions for Technological Research and Innovation to connect academia-research and industry and about 30 HEIs are associated till date.

Overall, IMMT could file 21 new IPRs – 18 patent and 3 design applications in last one year in addition to the existing numbers.