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KERALA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY
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Patent Awareness Workshop
In order to protect our rich bio- diversity and immense local varieties of
crops, they are to be classified noting their specific characteristics and all
the details have to be put on the internet to own our claim, said Dr. K.
Gopakumar, the former Deputy Director General, ICAR. He was inaugurating the one
day awareness workshop on Patent Awareness at Kerala Agricultural University,
Vellanikkara, Thrissur. The workshop was jointly organised by the Technology
Information Forecasting & Assessment Council (TIFAC) and the Kerala
Agri-cultural University.
Dr. A. I. Jose, Director of Extension, urged the necessity to protect our
rich bio-diversity from being pirated by other countries.
Dr.S.Bala Ravi and Dr.K.Sureshkumar, spoke on the New Plant Variety Protection
and Farmers Rights Act and on IPR issues.
Mr. Madhusudha, Convenor of Patent and Designs, Chennai spoke on the patenting
system in India and Dr. C.R.Elsy, on intellectual property protection of
biological materials.
Dr.R.Vikraman Nair, Director of Research, Dr.K.Pushkaran and Dr.G.S.L.H.V
Prasada Rao spoke on the occasion.