Speaker Details

Prof Prabuddha Ganguli

Biography

He is the CEO of “VISION-IPR” offering services in management of Intellectual Property Rights, Information Security and Knowledge Management. He is a IPR Consultant to WIPO for IPR capacity building programmes in developing countries, an elected Fellow of the Maharashtra Academy of Sciences and Adjunct Professor at the Institute of Intellectual Property Law, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, Honorary Scientific Consultant for Innovation and IPR matters to the Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser, Government of India and a member of the Advisory Board of the International Intellectual Property Institute, Washington. He is also member of the Advisory Board of the Institute of Intellectual Property Studies, Mumbai and a Senate Member of the National Institute of Fashion Technology, India. He is a member of the International Editorial Board of the IPR Journal “World Patent Information“.. He has over 50 publications in Technical subjects and over 60 publications in Intellectual Property Rights and has authored 4 books in the field of Intellectual Property Rights. With M.Sc. in Chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology (Kanpur) and Ph.D. from Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, and postdoctoral research in Germany as an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellow, his experience spans academic research followed by 2 decades in industry in diverse managerial roles in Hindustan Lever Ltd, the Indian Subsidiary of Unilever.

Abstract

IPR mediated bridging of the technology divide…….exploring options

As technologies advance, the technology divide between the technology-haves’ and technology-have-nots’ sharpens leading to contrasts that apparently seem unbridgeable. It is in this context that intellectual property rights (IPR) become contextually significant. Technology transfer across the widening divide is a multidimensional issue that encompasses elements in the statutes and practices that have significant impact on sustainable development Technology developers on one hand aggressively protect their technologies using diverse tools of IPR leaving other technology seekers in a quandary on the phase at which they should indulge in the technology development process or explore ways and means of acquiring the technologies from the technology-haves’ to build further for societal benefit. It is believed that an IPR mediated process involving the cooperating partners could effectively bridge the technology divide. National IPR Policies should synergistically and pragmatically facilitate the gelling of the IPR statutes, competition law with a framework for its enforcement, national developmental needs, steady capacity building in technology with the creation and institutionalized management of IPR based on a national innovation process and workable balanced benefit sharing arrangements. The presentation will explore options taking examples of various fields of technologies.

IPR internalise™ …a Pathway to Seamless Integration of IPR into Innovation Processes

This model proposes a seamless integration of IPR in knowledge creation processes in frameworks for formal investigative science and non formal traditional community led innovation systems. Exploitation of distributed global human and infrastructural resources including public private partnerships in which workable and mutually acceptable IPR arrangements are increasingly becoming working realities. The ability to strategically manage IPR will significantly influence the success of such working relationships and effectively progress projects across the research value chain from concepts to markets. IPRinternalise™ is a model that builds into the research process, IPR capacity building in which knowledge seekers effectively use IPR information as a rich resource in their research by seamlessly incorporating basic elements of IPR in all research projects from a very early stage so as to exploit the benefits of prior art searches, analysis of prior art in the context of the problem they are solving, develops innovative useful solutions that are novel with tailored inventive steps, and at the same time ensuring possibly patentable non-infringing with regard to any existing IP so that they transact IP with freedom to operate. The model ‘‘IPRinternalise™’’ also provides a sustainable, cost effective and scalable process for the creation of a critical mass of networked IP literate personnel who are trained to work in ‘‘Communities of IP Practices’’.