Rama Krishna Sangem
Subhajit Saha, head of legal and IPR, Resolute Group has called upon that there are many inventions that are patentable in Telangana stateso, its time to get ready to convert all of them into intellectual property rights.
Saha delivered a keynote lecture in the Intellectual Property Rights awareness program jointly organized by Telangana State Horticultural University IPR Cell and Telangana State council of Science and Technology on commercial aspects of intellectual property rights in horticulture sector in Telangana organized at College of Horticulture, Rajendranagar. He said on this occasion. … Telangana state has the potential to grow as a home for intellectual property rights and everyone should work towards that.
Eligibility for Geographical Indications of various horticultural products in Telangana State, Procedure for Obtaining Geographical Indication, Details of registered Geographical Indication Products so far and the procedure to apply was lectured on.
Higher prices for GI registered
He explained that farmers are getting 20 to 30% higher profits and market prices in products and crops that have been registered for geographical indications, especially in the horticulture sector.
Another eight to ten horticultural crops in Telangana state are suitable for geographical identification, he said. He said that if universities, farmers and the government work together, many products from the state can be geographical indications recognized. Subhajit Saha stated that there are many opportunities for tourism in places with geographical indications products are there.
Dr. M. Rajasekhar, Dean of Horticulture, Horticultural University, who attended the conference as the Chief Guest, said…. creativity in research is required, he asked the students, researchers and professors to carry out research towards finding solutions to the problems faced by the farmers at the field level.
Phani Kiran of Kotipalli spoke about the process of patenting in this conference and explained that if there is any new invention, a patent is very necessary. It is explained that they will be released in the market based on aspects like trade marks, copyrights, geographical indications, design and integrated circuits.
Dr. Seenivasan said that foreigners are stealing India’s wealth of turmeric, basmati and neem products and their medicinal properties, and it is our responsibility to protect them and intellectual property rights are useful for that.
IPR Cell Nodal Officer Dr Pidigam Saidaiah said that universities should grow as centers of intellectual property rights and every aspect of daily life is linked to some intellectual property right. Dr. Saidaiah said that researchers and students will have a good future if they look at patent and copyright aspects in every research and academic aspect to excel in the competitive world, and if they are creative, there are plenty of opportunities to get patents from pencils to airplanes, he said.
Dr. Potaraju Prashanth, Associate Dean of Horticulture College, Dr. T.Suresh Kum, Head of Southern climatic Region, also spoke. Ashwin Kumar, Dr. Majjiga Srinivas, Professors and 250 research schokars and faculty participated.
