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Guard against copying inventions

COIMBATORE: Patents and Intellectual Property are the strongest assets that a corporation can own. It should shield its ideas, products, algorithms, processes and inventions from copycats, R. Radhakrishnan, Vice-Chancellor, Anna University, Coimbatore, said here on Wednesday.

Inaugurating a workshop on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) at the Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology, jointly organised by the college and the Centre for Intellectual Property Rights of the university, he said that though the percentage of patent filings in India seemed to be high, the actual number of patent filings was pretty small when compared to other countries.

“People need to be educated about the patent filing process. The significance of intellectual property and patents needs to be highlighted and the process of searching and applying for a patent should be made easy to encourage more people to file,” the Vice-Chancellor said.

He said India ranked third among the developing countries with 686 patent applications in 2006. Of the applications originated in India, Maharashtra accounted for the maximum number, followed by Delhi, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat.

In the recent past, 2004-05 saw the maximum number of patent filings in India, which was to the tune of 17,446.

Explaining the process of filing a patent, he said it fell under the jurisdiction of the Office of the Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks.

The world’s largest patent applicants were from the United State of America, Japan and Germany. Together these three countries accounted for 57 per cent of the worldwide patent filings.

S. Subramanian, Principal of the college, and S. Balasubramanian, director of the centre, spoke.

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