Anna Uni centre to network with 500 TISCs globally

The Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) is setting up a centre in Chennai to stimulate a dynamic, vibrant and balanced Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) system in India to foster creativity and innovation.

It is being set under the World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) Technology and Innovation Support Center (TISC) program at Anna University’s Centre for Intellectual Property Rights (CIPR).

DIPP has signed an agreement with Anna University on 8 Nov 2017 to set up India’s Second TISC.

The program would provide innovators in developing countries with access to locally based, high quality technology information and related services, helping them to exploit their innovative potential and to create, protect, and manage their IPRs.

CIPR has experience of filing more than 185 Patents, 29 Trademarks, 39 Copyrights, 25 Industrial Design. It has also assisted in filing 12 International Patent Applications.

The objective of the TISC is to stimulate a dynamic, vibrant and balanced Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) system in India to foster creativity and innovation,

The TISC would also promote entrepreneurship and enhance social, economic and cultural development by establishing a network of TISCs in India.

Over 500 TISCs operate worldwide and establishing a TISC in India will give the host institutions access to the global network.

TISC will give an impetus to knowledge sharing, sharing of best practices among the TISCs, capacity building, generation and commercialization of Intellectual Properties.

Anna University has been accredited with 6th rank among Universities, 8th rank among Engineering Colleges and 13th rank in the overall category in India, by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) ranking of the Ministry of Human Resource Development.

CIPR has also organized IPR awareness programs as well as six certificate courses on IPR related subjects. fii-news.com