National Intellectual Property Awareness Mission (NIPAM)
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What is discussed under National Intellectual Property Awareness Mission (NIPAM)?

1. National Intellectual Property Awareness Mission (NIPAM)
2. Intellectual Property Rights
3. Indian Laws to protect IPR

Why in News ?

National Intellectual Property Awareness Mission (NIPAM) has achieved target of imparting Intellectual Property (IP) awareness and basic training to 1 million students on 31^st July 2022, ahead of the deadline which was 15 August 2022.

Key Facts

• • NIPAM, a flagship program to impart IP awareness and basic training, was launched on 8 Dec 2021 as a part of “Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav”

    

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  • The program is being implemented by Intellectual Property Office, the Office of Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks (CGPDTM), Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
  • During the period 08 December 2021 to 31st July 2022, the following milestones achieved:
    • No. of participants (students/faculty) trained on IP = 10, 05, 272
    • Educational institutes covered = 3662
    • Geographical coverage = 28 states and 7 Union Territories

National Intellectual Property Awareness Mission (NIPAM)

• • The pan-India ambitious mission aims to provide awareness on intellectual property and its rights to 1 million students.
  • It aims to inculcate the spirit of creativity and innovation to students of higher education (classes 8 to 12) and ignite and inspire the students of college/Universities to innovate and protect their creations.
    • Level A– It includes school students of class 9th to 12th.
    • Level B – It includes students from Universities or Colleges
  • Program is being implemented by the Intellectual Property Office, the Office of Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks (CGPDTM), Ministry of Commerce and Industry.

Significance 

• • IP awareness is significant to ensure that intellectual capital developed in country is recognised and protected in order for IP producers to take advantage.
  • It encourages inventors, artists and authors, as well as ensures sustainability of research and development.
  • IP encourages and extends support to innovation and creativity, that are contributing towards societal cultural and economic progress.

Intellectual Property Rights

• • Intellectual property rights (IPR) refers to the legal rights given to the inventor or creator to protect his invention or creation for a certain period of time.
  • These legal rights confer an exclusive right to the inventor/creator or his assignee to fully utilize his invention/creation for a given period of time.

Intellectual property (IP) pertains to any original creation of the human intellect such as artistic, literary, technical, or scientific creation.

• • IPR is a strong tool, to protect investments, time, money, effort invested by the inventor/creator of an IP.
  • It will promoting healthy competition and encouraging industrial development and economic growth.

IP protection can be sought for a variety of intellectual efforts including

• • Copyrights
    • The rights of authors of literary and artistic works are protected by copyright, for a minimum period of 50 years after the death of the author.
  • Geographical indications
    • Indications, which identify as good as originating in the territory of a country or a region or locality in that territory where a given quality, reputation, or other characteristic of the goods is essentially attributable to its geographical origin.
  • Trademarks
    • Any mark, name, or logo used in commerce for any good or service and used to identify the producer or provider of that good or service.
    • Trademark has no existence apart from the goodwill of the product or service it symbolizes.
  • Industrial Designs
    • In order to features of any shape, configuration, surface pattern, composition of lines and colours applied to an article.

Indian Laws to protect IPR

National Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Policy 2016

• • Union Cabinet has approved the National Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Policy on 12th May, 2016 that shall lay the future roadmap for IPRs in India.
  • The Policy recognises the abundance of creative and innovative energies that flow in India, and the need to tap into and channelize these energies towards a better and brighter future for all.
  • The National IPR Policy is a vision document that encompasses and brings to a single platform all IPRs.
  • It views IPRs holistically, taking into account all inter-linkages and thus aims to create and exploit synergies between all forms of intellectual property (IP), concerned statutes and agencies.
  • It sets in place an institutional mechanism for implementation, monitoring and review.
  • It aims to incorporate and adapt global best practices to the Indian scenario.

Way Forward

To strengthen the NIPAM program further to nurture and encourage innovation and creativity, thereby contributing towards cultural and economic development of the society through a revamped manner utilizing the existing resources of the IP Office in collaboration with Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), AICTE, UGC etc.

Previous Year Question
1. In a globalized world, Intellectual Property Rights assume significance and are a source of litigation. Broadly distinguish between the terms – Copyrights, Patents and Trade Secrets. (2014)

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