An introduction to the nature and scope of intelectual property rights

The PG department of Economics was conducted a seminar report on “An Introduction to the Nature and Scope of Intellectual Property Rights” “on 19th September 2018 Wednesday at 10 am. The welcome speech was done by Dr.Haseena.V.A (HOD Dept.Of Economics). In her talk, she shared views on IPR and also explained the importance of creating IPR awareness among the teacher students The programme was inaugurated by Dr.O.P Salahudheen , principal ,M.E.S..Kalladi College Mannarkkad. The faculty members and students from various departments attended the seminar and give the views about the topic; which is relevant today. The topic was presented by Dr.G.Geethika, Assistant Professor, Union Christain College Aluva. The technical session I started at 11. am and it was on the topic “An Introduction to The Nature and Scope of Intellectual Property Rights”” and was handled by Dr.G.Geethika, Assistant professor, Department of political science, Union Christain College ,Aluva. She explained about nature of IPR, genesis and growth of IPR, types of IPR and patents etc.in this session.The class was very interesting and created firsthand knowledge about IPR to students. The students were also provided with a PPT which included details of the topics explained by the Resource Person. The technical session II Was started at 1.30 pm. In this session the resource person discussed the matters about patentable subject matter, trade-marks, copy rights, international and national IPR laws existed etc. and after that a student interactive session was arranged, in this session the students cleared their doubts about the topic. The seminar aimed to create first level IPR awareness among the teachers, students about the beneficial aspects of patenting their creative and novel ideas, inventions etc… Such awareness would in turn be highly essential for the promotion of creativity, research and technical advancements as well as application into market.