National Intellectual Property Awareness Mission (NIPAM) - UPSC Current Affairs

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Despite having immense talent and human resources, India is lagging behind in registration of Intellectual Property rights. Critically comment.

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Context

National Intellectual Property Awareness Mission (NIPAM) has achieved the target of imparting Intellectual Property (IP) awareness and basic training to 1 million students.

About NIPAM

• It is a flagship program to impart IP awareness and basic training.
• It was launched on 8 Dec 2021 as a part of “Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav'' celebrations.
• The pan-India ambitious mission aims to provide awareness on intellectual property and its rights to 1 million students.
• It aims to inculcate the spirit of creativity and innovation to students of higher education (classes 8 to 12) and ignite and inspire the students of college/Universities to innovate and protect their creations.
• The program is being implemented by the Intellectual Property Office, the Office of Controller General of Patents, Designs and TradeMarks (CGPDTM), Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
• During the period 08 December 2021 to 31st July 2022, the following milestones achieved:
  • No. of participants (students/faculty) trained on IP = 10,05,272
  • Educational institutes covered = 3662
  • Geographical coverage = 28 states and 7 Union Territories

Intellectual property

• Intellectual property (IP) pertains to any original creation of the human intellect such as artistic, literary, technical, or scientific creation. 
• Intellectual property rights (IPR) refers to the legal rights given to the inventor or creator to protect his invention or creation for a certain period of time.

 Intellectual property rights

• Intellectual property rights (IPR) have been defined as ideas, inventions, and creative expressions based on which there is a public willingness to bestow the status of property.
• IPR provides certain exclusive rights to the inventors or creators of that property, in order to enable them to reap commercial benefits from their creative efforts or reputation.
• There are several types of intellectual property protection like patent, copyright, trademark, etc.
  • Patent
    • A patent is an exclusive right granted for an invention, which is a product or a process that provides.
    • In general, a new way of doing something, or offering a new technical solution to a problem.
    • To get a patent, technical information about the invention must be disclosed to the public in a patent application.
  • Copyright
    • Copyright relates to expression of ideas in material form and includes literary, musical, dramatic, artistic, cinematography work, audio tapes, and computer software.
  • Trademarks
    • Trademarks relate to any mark, name, or logo under which trade is conducted for any product or service and by which the manufacturer or the service provider is identified.
    • Trademarks can be bought, sold, and licensed.
    • Trademark has no existence apart from the goodwill of the product or service it symbolizes.
  • Geographical indications
    • Geographical indications are indications, which identify as good as originating in the territory of a country or a region or locality in that territory where a given quality, reputation, or other characteristic of the goods is essentially attributable to its geographical origin. 
  • Industrial designs
    • Industrial designs relate to features of any shape, configuration, surface pattern, composition of lines and colors applied to an article whether 2-D, e.g., textile, or 3-D, e.g., toothbrush.

News Source: The Indian Express

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