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In order to maintain, protect and manage Intellectual Property, the Government of India has decided to establish ten additional Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Chairs for focussed approach on specific sectors as below:
(i) On IP Management.
1. Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.
2. Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata.
3. Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.
(ii) In areas of IPRs pertaining to patents, trademarks, industrial designs and geographical indicators.
4. Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
5. Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
6. Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai.
7. Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai
8. Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.
(iii) Intellectual Property Rights and Development.
9. Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi.
10. Centre for Economic School for Economic Studies,
Jawaharlal Nehru University.
These chairs would become operational in the year 2005-2006.
It was felt that there was a major need to create capacity to deal with the available and growing knowledge wealth in the country. As a first step in this direction, Government of India had established six professorial chairs, one each at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore, University of Allahabad, Allahabad, University of Pune, Pune, University of Madras, Chennai and Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi. These Chairs are, by and large, associated with the Law Departments of the respective institutions. With the creation of these 10 new chairs the Government intends to give a further fillip to study of and awareness about Intellectual Property issues in multiple disciplines.
India is rapidly becoming a knowledge society. The status of India as a major creator of intellectual wealth is recognized the world over. There is a great potential in India to generate more and more intellectual wealth in all sectors of Intellectual Property ranging from Patents and Copyrights to Industrial Designs. In today’s knowledge economy, innovation, creativity and competition are the impulses propelling the economy forward. In such an environment, protection of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and Intellectual Property Management are strong tools for development.
In the present day scenario, the Intellectual Property issues have become multiple disciplinary in character. There has to be a combination of technological, legal and management tools to tackle the complex issues in the IPR sector. This calls for capacity building outside the realm of the Legal departments. The focus has to be not only on the creation of Intellectual Property but also to maintain, protect and manage it by inculcating awareness of this important sphere of national wealth creating activity.
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