Sanskriti University holds webinar on Intellectual Property Rights
The topics ranged from the timeline of the Indian patenting system to the steps taken to apply for one.
Sanskriti University’s School of Engineering and Information Technology recently hosted a webinar on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) aimed at helping students understand the intricacies of IPR and the ways to overcome the challenges one may face in patenting.
Alok V Kulshreshtha, the senior manager of Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Ltd., was the keynote speaker at the programme.
Addressing the participants, he discussed the trends and developments of patenting in India.
He started his session by giving an overview of patents and their brief history in India. He informed that patents in India are governed by the Indian Patents Act (1970), which was last amended in 2016, where product patent was extended to all fields of technology including the IT sector.
