Guwahati: The Handique Girls’ College is organising a one week National Workshop on intellectual property rights, academic ethics, and innovation for entrepreneurship Development (NWIPR-2023) jointly with Patent Information Centre, Assam Science and Technology and Environment Council from November 6 2023 to  November 10, 2023. 

As a part of the programme, there will be a series of intensive lectures by leading experts in various topics including fundamentals of IPR,  copyright and geographical indicators , patents, trademarks, and industrial design, fundamentals of technology transfer,  Indian scenario on IPR, filing  and drafting  a patent, securing funding for research , technicalities of writing a research paper, avoiding plagiarism, acquiring  funding for start-ups,  design, thinking, innovation and start-up survival etc. 

Several distinguished speakers of national repute including Prof Sanjib Paul, scientist and IPR chair, CSIR-IICT, Hyderabad; Prof. Prafulla Hatte, dean research and development, MIT Academy of Engineering , Pune; Prof. H Purushutham, IPR Chair Professor, Andhra University; Prof. Bhagirathi Panda, NEHU; Padmasri Uddhab Bharali, leading innovator and entrepreneur; Dr Madhurya Thakur, deputy controller of patent and  design, patent India, Kolkata; Prof. Pritam Deb, IPR Chair Professor, Tezpur University; Dr, Anjumai Talukdar, women scientist C IPR, Siliguri;  Dr. Swapnil Sinha, CEO, BioNEST, IIT Guwahati and Dr. Jaideep Baruah, director, ASTEC will attend the workshop as resource persons. 

Interested Participants may register through the Weblink: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfUiWytFgzCtovmeL6YhvvJNrC5n-GFO0A3LOeNpyiDmRUDfg/viewform and may contact at 7002443480 and 9435349215 for any query.

Spot Registration facility will also be available. 

Founded in 1939 by the Late Rajabala Das in the backdrop of the nationalist struggle for freedom, Handique Girls' College has completed eighty years of existence in the history of women's education and empowerment in Assam as well as in the entire North-East India.

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