The Staff Training Academy of Gokhale Education Society had organised a one day seminar on Intellectual Property Rights on Thu 23 Feb 2023, at the Krishi Vidnyan Kendra, Kosbad hill, Taluka Dahanu, District Palghar from 10 am to 2 pm.
Some snaps
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Some notes and links
IPR is territorial. You have to register it in every country where you want to use it commercially.
TRIPS agreement 1995
Indian Patent Act 1970
PHOSITA – Person having ordinary skill in the art
Incremental improvement stools, chairs
Gamechanging invention
Global Innovation Index Indian rank 40
Patent is an agreement between government and the inventor
Jugad Padmashri Rahibai seed bank
My father discovered my mother and both of them inventd me – my maths teacher used to give this example
Synergistic properties
Onco mouse
Dr. Vandana Shiva Neem patent rejected because of her efforts
Traditional knowledge library
http://www.tkdl.res.in/tkdl/langdefault/common/Home.asp?GL=Eng
Patents on Yoga in USA
North face
South butt
Geographical Indications GI
Rasgulla from Orissa
Odisha Vs Bengal
Biopiracy
the unethical or unlawful appropriation or commercial exploitation of biological materials (such as medicinal plant extracts) that are native to a particular country or territory without providing fair financial compensation to the people or government of that country or territory
The 60-year-old scientist was dwelling in semi-isolation, having … lost his job at a Brazilian research institute and been charged with a raft of offenses, including misusing government property and violating Brazil’s biopiracy laws.
—Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian, February 2008
Turmeric is a poster child for one of the most noted intellectual-property cases on biopiracy, which pitted an Indian government-supported research organization against a 1995 patent issued to the University of Mississippi for the use of the spice for wound healing.
—Gary Stix, Scientific American, February 2007
biopirate
¦bī-(ˌ)ō-¦pī-rət
noun
pluralbiopirates
Indigenous people are at the mercy of biopirates who steal their traditional knowledge of medicinal plants.
—Stephen Leahy, New Scientist, 28 Feb. 2004
Chetan Bhagat and 3 Idiots
Monkey selfie case
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_dispute?wprov=sfla1
AI implemented invention first patent filed
Process patent simple patent Yeole tea
Medicated Tulsi water