Event Details

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Bio-NEST IASST under the Institute of Advanced Study in Science and Technology (IASST) organized an interactive Session on the topic “Intellectual Property Rights for Safeguarding R&D-based Innovations and Entrepreneurship Development” on 26th April 2023 from 10 am onwards at IASST auditorium.

This year the theme for World Intellectual Property Day is Women and IP: Accelerating Innovation and Creativity, to celebrate the “can do” attitude of women inventors, creators, and entrepreneurs around the world and their ground-breaking work.

The session was moderated by Sagar Kumar, Manager (Incubation & Outreach) who introduced the speaker of the webinar – Mr. Debasish Dutta, Scientist, Patent Information Center (PIC), Science & Technology Division, Assam Science Technology & Environment Council (ASTEC).

The inaugural speech was rendered by Prof. Ashis K Mukherjee, Honourable Director - IASST.

The session continued with the awareness talk by Mr. Debasish Dutta, who gave insights on the types of intellectual property rights, PCT filing, criteria of patenting based on novelty, inventiveness, industrial applicability, and also factors that fall under non-patentability.

A total of 45 participants attended and a few innovators interacted with the speaker to understand the process and benefits of patenting and technology transfer.

The seminar ended with the felicitation of the 6 winning teams of FAME Biotech Hackathon 2.0 by Prof. Ashis K. Mukherjee, Honourable Director-IASST, and Prof N. Sen Sarma, Head PSD, and Chairman IPR Cell, IASST.