Wednesday, September 2, 2015

IPR LAWS - WORKSHOP

Sunday 30th Oct. 2015
Hotel Le Meridian, Bengaluru

Mr HariKrishna Holla, Advocate, of Holla Associates invited me to participate in a workshop on Intellectual Property Rights Law on Saturday 04July2015 at LeMeridien Hotel, Bengaluru.

PARTICIPANTS
It was quite an interesting workshop. The "Intellectual Property Rights" refers to the legal rights granted with a view to protect the creation of product by using one's intelligence. It consists of Trade Marks, Patents, Copyright and Designs.


The morning session was by Sri Ramakrishnan who spoke about the Intellectual Property and said whatever one knows must give it to others. He also spoke about the Law of Copyrights and Designs. this may be Literary, Dramatic, Musical, Photographing, Films, or Sound recording. One should register with copyright office.
Mr Muralidhar, Senior Advocate and an excellent speaker and a knowledgeable person spoke about the Patent Laws, which is a licence to Law Suit and is like owning an elephant.
Criteria for Patenting are:(NUNS)
1. Novelty - should have prior publication, pateneting and public use.
2. Utility - Capable of industrially applied, Subject to NTP, and yields same results each time.
3. Not Obviousness - Involve technical advance, Economic Significance, Involves features not obvious to the person skilled.
3. Statutory subject matter - Differs from country to country, India being the most restrictive, patent regime and invention falling within the ambit of Sec.3
In the Invention disclosure, the following are necessary:
1. Title
2. Area of Invention
3. Status of prior art
4. Problems with prior art
5. The type of problems you propose and how?
6. Advantages
7. Summary of inventions
8. Explanations of drawings.

The types of infringers  are: 1) Innocent 2) Willful/intentional  3) Contributory 4) Inducing
5) Irritating
Mr HariKrishna Holla

Mr Harikrishna Holla spoke about the Consumer Protection Act of 1986 to protect consumers. The laws are designed to prevent businesses that engage in fraud or specified unfair practices.
It can be
1)  Deficiency in service of a dentist or a lawyer
2) Deficiency is service by a lawyer or an auditor
3) Contractor or service provider
4) Car service centre
5) Negligence of any insurance company
6) Medical negligence
7) Dissatisfied with service of Banker
8) Performance with electronic gadgets
9)  Affected by Transport System
10) Victim of excessive pricing..... etc etc

BUFFET LUNCH, @LE MERIDIEN
On the whole, it was a useful and productive time spent, gaining knowledge on your rights.
Thanks Mr Holla for providing nice buffet lunch and Tea at the hotel.


written Wednesday 02September2015

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