National Research Development Corporation (NRDC) signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) with Mishra Dhatu Nigam limited (MIDHANI), a public sector enterprise under the Ministry of Defence. The purpose of this MoA is to provide support to MIDHANI for IPR consultancy in Patent filing for the technologies developed by MIDHANI and in organising capacity building training programmes and workshop for creating awareness in IPRs.
The MoA was signed by Dr .H. Purushotham, CMD, NRDC and Dr. Dinesh Kumar Likhi, CMD, MIDHANI. Senior officials K.Sivasubramanian, General Manager, R&D, MIDHANI, Dr.Sanjeeva Kumar Majumdar, Manager, NRDC were also present.
Dr. Likhi delivered the inauguration address and highlighted that patent protection is not a choice but it is a compulsion now to remain competitive in the market particularly by PSU’s. Dr. Purushotham while addressing the participants said that, it is not that innovations are not happening in the production units but the skill to notice, recognize and the culture of protecting the innovation is missing in the organisations and training programmes like this will provide such skills in the employees. As a part of this programme NRDC also organised a four day training programme on IPR capacity building for MIDHANI officials. About 10 resource persons from DRDO, HAL, Patent Attorneys, National Law School etc. delivered lectures and hands on training during the programme. About 80 MIDHANI officials attended the four day IPR training programme.