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IPR and Patents: Prospects and Challenges
30th July 2019
About the College
Lady Doak college has the distinction of being the first women's college in Madurai and one among the first nine colleges to introduce autonomy at the national level. Since its inception in 1948 to date, it strives to fulfill the vision of the founder Ms. Katie Wilcox by implementing various innovative and challenging academic programmes to bring about the wholesome transformation of women with a balanced intellectual, moral and social outlook.
About the Department
The Department of Zoology is as old as the college with the Department of Biotechnology as its offshoot since 2003. The departments offer teaching at undergraduate, postgraduate and research level both in Zoology and Biotechnology. With fully equipped infrastructure facilities, the department has been recognized by DST-FIST (2005 - 2012) to facilitate research activities thereby promoting and uplifting the status of women in research. A full fledged lab with state of art instrumentation that fosters research and development in major thrust areas like in-silico analysis, cytogenetics, animal cell culture and cancer biology are the milestones in the history of the department. A research team focuses on bird diversity in and around Madurai district with special emphasis on bringing back sparrows. The department has constituted Institutional Biosafety Committee recognized by DBT, Ministry of Science and Technology, Govt. of India and Institutional Animal Ethics Committee as per norms of CPCSEA, Animal Welfare Division, Govt. of India
About the Conference
Innovations are impacting countless aspects of our daily lives. Going hand in hand with this trend, the IP system, touches everything from life-saving medicines to smart phones to fabrics to living organisms and biological material. IPR and patent system helps the innovators to protect their ideas and creations and should be designed for ease of use such that an idea is converted to a socially and economically beneficial innovation. This seminar is conducted for a fundamental understanding that creativity and great ideas are to be protected and an IP system should be accessible to all, regardless to one's socioeconomic status, geography or financial means. Sessions will include keynote presentations, discussions and practical aspects of patent application and search.
Objectives
The participants will be able to
• understand the scope of IPR and patenting in various domains of science.
• explore and address the challenges in IPR and patenting.
• motivate participants towards focused research that throws open avenues for patenting and commercialization