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Nasscom pushes for special IPR courts

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CIOL Bureau
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PUNE: Kiran Karnik, President of Nasscom, India's apex IT body, has proposed to create awareness in the legal system by way of special IPR courts for the IT industry. "There is a serious need to look at patenting in India, since there is a total lack of awareness on disclosures and protecting one's work," he said. He cited the example of the innovators of the Simputer, who had not realized the need to defend their innovation by way of a patent.

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Karnik was in Pune for the second annual international inventor and innovator awards function, organized by Veritas. He hinted at the possibility of a major innovation initiative over the next few months by the industry association.

Underlining the need for an engagement with the education system for innovation, Karnik informed, "Over the last nine months, Nasscom has been taking steps to encourage presentations from start-ups and have a panel of mentors and judges selecting a few products, showcasing these to the next level of venture funding. An innovation fund would also be created soon".

Even as India enjoys the advantage of scalable skills, there is a concern over quality. India produces more than three million graduates every year with only 10,000 PhDs. The problem of quality begins with the faculty since the teaching profession is no longer considered lucrative. Karnik emphasized the need to bring back status and standard to the teaching profession and increase compensation levels to attract the right kind of talent.

Earlier, Basant Rajan, a Veritas employee was declared the outstanding contributor. Oleg Kiselev, Guy Bunker and Aglia Kong won the 'distinguished engineers recognition' award. Anand Kekre and Ankur Panchbodhe won the award for 'Thinking outside the Box', while the Innovation & Far Reaching Invention award went to Shiri Kerman-Hendell Simcha Landov.

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