The World Intellectual Property Organization - WIPO is the United Nations agency dedicated to the use of intellectual property (patents, copyright, trademarks, designs, etc.) as a means of stimulating innovation and creativity. Every year on April 26, World Intellectual Property Day celebrates innovation and creativity and how intellectual property fosters and encourages them. To increase general understanding of what IP really means, WIPO member states (India is a member) chose April 26 – the day on which the WIPO Convention came into force in 1970 – as World IP Day. For more details about WIPO see www.wipo.int/

Intellectual property (IP) refers to creations of the mind: inventions, literary and artistic works, and symbols, names, images, and designs used in commerce. IP is divided into two categories: Industrial property, which includes inventions (patents), trademarks, industrial designs, and geographic indications of source; and Copyright, which includes literary and artistic works such as novels, poems and plays, films, musical works, artistic works such as drawings, paintings, photographs and sculptures, and architectural designs. Rights related to copyright include those of performing artists in their performances, producers of phonograms in their recordings, and those of broadcasters in their radio and television programs. The innovations and creative expressions of indigenous and local communities are also IP, yet because they are “traditional” they may not be fully protected by existing IP systems. Access to, and equitable benefit-sharing in, genetic resources also raise IP questions.

For India, the authority for Copyrights is Copyright Division Department of Higher Education, MHRD, Government of India 4th Floor, Jeevan Deep Building, 1 & 2 , Parliament Street New Delhi, 110001 website: copyright.gov.in/ . The authority for patents & Trademarks is Office of the Controller-General of Patents Designs and Trademarks, Department of Industrial Policy Promotions, Ministry of Commerce and Industry Government of India Bhoudhik Sampada Bhavan Near Antop Hill Head Post Office, S.M. Road, Antop Hill, Mumbai-400037 Website www.ipindia.nic.in/

World IP Day 2012 focuses on Visionary Innovators – individuals whose ingenuity and artistry have broken molds, opened new horizons and made a lasting impact.

The boyhood fascination with flight by the Wright Brothers resulted in a flying machine and travel by air while the inquisitive mind of Louis Pasteur advanced the science of disease prevention. Tu Youyou’s dogged analysis of herbal remedies resulted in a malaria treatment that saves millions of lives while Steve Jobs ambition to make digital technology simple and accessible to everyone gave rise to personal computing and – three decades on – a new paradigm for the delivery of entertainment. The list of visionary innovators is indeed long and undoubtedly includes the many artists, writers and musicians who changed the way we see and hear things: Rembrandt and Turner, Picasso and Kandinski, each reshaping our perceptions of light, shape and form; Chekhov and Tagore, Neruda and Mafouz, their writing giving new insights into the human experience; Charlie Parker and Miles Davis, Hendrix and Rostropovich – musicians who challenge the status-quo, and endure.

Communicating the above details to faculty and students, on the occasion of World IP Day on 26 April 2012, Dr P S Bhatnagar, Director of B K Birla Institute of Engineering and Technology – BKBIET Pilani was of the opinion that to carry out an innovation successfully, a good knowledge of the patent system is an absolute must.

He also added that the Aditya Birla Training & Research Center – ABTRC at BKBIET will facilitate students to gain valuable experience in the forefront of scientific research through projects, seminars and workshops. He also congratulated the “Jeevan” team Kunadn Singh, Varun Mehta and Ashutosh Sharma students from BKBIET Pilani for bagging the second position in Microsoft Imagine Cup Software Design category and the prize money of Rs 70,000/- against a stiff competition.

For more details about BKBIET Pilani see www.bkbiet.ac.in/

The B K Birla Institute of Engineering and Technology, Pilani with excellent infra structure is one among the most sought after institutions in Rajasthan offering quality technical education at an affordable cost. To encourage the students to embrace global education, the Institute has established in May 2011 BIRD – BKBIET International Relations Division. Currently, BKBIET has collaborations with 10 foreign universities – 6 in France, 2 in Thailand, 1 each in Switzerland and Portugal which facilitate apart from academic links provisions for students to carry out internship.

BK Birla Institute of Engineering and Technology - BKBIET
CEERI Road
Pilani – 333031
Dist. Jhunjhunu
(Raj) INDIA
Phone: 91-1596-244054
Email bkbiet@gmail.com
Website www.bkbiet.ac.in/

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