Meet on intellectual property on May 31

Mysuru: MSME-Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)-Intellectual Property Facilitation Centre will organize an interactive session on 'New national IPR policy: Way forward' on May 31. CII, in association with Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering SJCE-STEP and Visvesvaraya Trade Promotion Center (VTPC), is organizing the event in the latter's campus.
IPFC-CII executive Khyati Bhatt said that CII, in association with Ministry of Micro Small & Medium Enterprise (MSME), has established an Intellectual Property Rights Facilitation Centre (IPFC) in Indore, Mysuru and Gandhinagar with a primary objective to boost IP culture. This would enhance the intellectual capital that is vital for the economic development of the state, he added.
Finance minister Arun Jaitley released India's National Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) policy on May 12. The policy, which is in compliance with World Trade Organization's agreement on TRIPS (Trade-Related aspects of IPRs), aims at sustaining entrepreneurship and boosting the Union government's scheme 'Make in India'. Enhancing the protection of IPR, the Centre has announced an IPR policy that is compliant with global norms.
"After 'Startup India' and 'Make in India', India needs to protect 'Creative India: Innovative India' by registering everything that we create. Every new business owner should be aware of his/ her IP rights and should hire a trusted intellectual property consultant to help drive out the myths and build a strategy to best protect the company," Khyati said. To understand India's stand on IPR policy and to discuss the new IPR policy and its impact on various industry sectors an interactive session on the new National IPR policy was organized.