Industry

IPR Awareness in the Industry

In order to gain competitiveness in the global market, it is vital that the Indian industry innovates, protects its innovations and reaches the potential it has. To achieve this, it is vital that ideas, creations and innovations are protected under India’s robust Intellectual Property Rights regime reiterated by the National IPR Policy 2016. IPRs also pivotal to the government’s flagship Make in India and Digital India initiatives as in the modern world, businesses have to allocate resources to R&D, innovate and protect their innovations to sustain and gain monopoly in the market. So come on, lets create, innovate, protect and take India higher!

CIPAM organized IPR Awareness programs in the following Industry Associations [ Duration: 2 hrs 20 mins]

CIPAM contributed sessions on IPR in the following programs organized by Industry Associations [ Duration: 1 hour]

Why is IP important to your Business?

Protects your creations and inventions
Assurance of ownership of an artwork or product
Helps you gain monopoly in the market
Aids your business’ growth and expansion
Contributes to the Indian economy
Rewards the right individual/company for their work
Leads to continued innovations!

What has been done?

Where did we have these roadshows?

S. No.	Date	Location
1.	5th June 2016	Patna, Bihar
2.	16th June 2016	Jaipur, Rajasthan
3.	17th June 2016	Guwahati, Assam
4.	18th June 2016	Hyderabad, Telangana
5.	20th June 2016	Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh
6.	21st June 2016	Imphal, Manipur
7.	22nd June 2016	Punducherry
8.	24th June 2016	Amritsar, Punjab
9.	25th June 2016	Bhubaneswar, Odisha
10.	28th June 2016	Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir
11.	28th June 2016	Ludhiana, Punajab
12.	29th June 2016	Kochi, Kerala
13.	1st July 2016	Panaji, Goa
14.	2nd July 2016	Tiruchirappalli, TamilNadu
15.	5th July 2016	Surat, Gujarat
16.	6th July 2016	Haridwar, Uttarakhand
17.	7th July 2016	Indore, Madhya Pradesh
18.	8th July 2016	Luchnow, Uttar Pradesh
19.	9th July 2016	Mangalore, Karnataka

KEY INSIGHTS & FEEDBACK

Participants from the MSME sector as well as Startups were eager to know complete details of incentives offered under the Scheme for Facilitating Startups Intellectual Protection (SIPP) and other incentives on offer,
Commercialization and marketing were the biggest bottlenecks for the entrepreneurs in the state of J&K and the North Estern states. There were requests to setup IP Facilitation Centers that could provide handholding/support to entrepreneurs and innovators through the entire process of IP filling for monetization of their IPRs,
It was felt that strengthening of the judiciary and enforcement system, escpecially in Tier-2 cities, would go a long way in improving the IPR environment in the country,
A platform connecting academicians and research scientists with venture capitalists and technology incubators aborad would be a great step to promote industry-academia collaboration,
There were requests from schools and colleges to organize similar IP awareness programes in their campuses
Numerous requests were put forth to organize focused awareness events on Copyrights, Geographical Indications, filling process and the benefits of IPRs.

CIPAM launched an IPR Awareness campaign in the industry on a pilot basis and conducted awareness programs in 19 different states of India from June-July 2016 which saw excellent participated and feedback from stakeholders.

An overview of the this campaign can be seen below:

Complete report on this programme (4.1MB)

What will be happening?

CIPAM-DIPP aims to conduct over 3500 awareness programmes in schools, universities and the industry across the country including Tier 1, Tier 2, Tier 3 cities as well as rural areas along with content translated to various regional languages for a wider reach. Industry especially, MSMEs, who are one of the major growth drivers of the Indian economy, are a critical aspect of this IPR awareness campaign across the country as IP is an important tool for fostering innovation.

Are you interested in having a programme in your region?

You can get in touch with us here or email us at cipam-dipp[at]gov[dot]in. We will do our best to have a session in your region very soon! You can also see a full list of upcoming IPR sessions taking place across the country here and take part in a session near you for free by just getting to the venue on the day of the session!

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