IMPHAL, April 27: Patent Information Centre (PIC) of Manipur Science & Technology Council (MASTEC), Imphal and the Department of Pharmacology, Jawaharlal Nehru Institute Medical Sciences, Porompat, Imphal have jointly observed the World Intellectual Property Day – 2014 today to mark the existence of World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) at the Department of Pharmacology, JNIMS, Porornpat, Imphal, said it in a press release.
The main objectives of this event are to raise awareness of how patents, copyrights, trademarks and designs impact on daily life, to increase understanding of how protecting IP rights helps promote creativity and innovation, to celebrate creativity and contribution made by creators and innovators to the development of societies across the globe and to encourage respect for the IP rights of others, it said.
The theme of the World Intellectual Property Day – 2014 was “Movies – A Global Passion”. Th Surendranath Singh, Director, MASTEC and Prof Th Imoba Singh, Head, Department of pharmacology, JNIMS were on the dais.
Surendranath delivered a talk on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR). Faculty members and students attended the programme, it said.
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