A one-day workshop on "Patents: Prosecution & Licensing Strategies" will be held at Vista, World Trade Centre here on August 10, 2001.

The workshop has been organized by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in association with the Centre for Intellectual Property Management (CIPROM) which has been formed by eminent personalities in the fields of Law Research and Intellectual Property for dissemination of useful information, and imparting knowledge in Intellectual Property, and related areas including Law and Management.

From the licensing perspective, patent prosecution involves a series of carefully planned strategies, beginning with the "draft" and description of the "'invention" disclosing whatever needs to be disclosed and finally culminating in claiming the patent licence.

During the entire process, there are several issues, which need serious attention: resolving support issues, ways of probable construction of the claim language, equivalents and estoppels, just to name a few.

Even in the post-lodgment stage when claims are taken up to be constructed into licences it requires serious strategizing and careful monitoring of procedures. This workshop aims to address, some of these issues.

Those addressing the workshop include Donald Bollella, US Patent Attorney and Chief Patent Counsel, BTI Irvine, California; Dr N L Mitra, Vice Chancellor NLU Jodhpur; Manoj Pillai, Lex Orbis, Patent Attorney; and Dr Prabuddha Ganguli, CEO of Vision IPR.

CIPROM's activities include undertaking research, basic and applied, primary and secondary in IPR related areas including interplay of IPR with Economics, Law, Science and Technology.

CIPROM will be organizing a series of workshops with International and Indian resource persons in the field of IPR.

The key resource personnel associated with CIPROM are: Prof. (Dr.) N.L. Mitra - Chairman (Vice Chancellor - National Law University, Rajasthan and Ex-Director, National Law School, Bangalore); Dr. Prabuddha Ganguli - Vice Chairman, Ex-Hindustan Lever - IPR Specialist and Presently CEO, Vision IPR (consulting firm); Jayanti Ghose - Career Counsellor; Dr. Gopakumar G. Nair - Secretary-General (Chairman - BDH Industries Ltd and former president and present IPR Committee Chairman of IDMA); Manoj Pillai - Member Patent Attorney; Dr. R. Soman - Member (Research Scientist & Consultant); Dr.V.D. Patil - Member (Research Scientist & Consultant); and Sharmila Roychowdhury of LexOrbis, Delhi - Organising Secretary (Northern Region).

CIPROM is in the process of forming regional centres. Homi Khusrokhan (former managing director of Glaxo India Ltd and current Managing Director of Tata Tea) is joining as CIPROM - Regional Chairman, Kolkata (Eastern Region) while Manoj Pillai will be the Regional Chairman (Northern Region), Delhi.

Those interested in participating may contact Ms Pramila Sequeira, CII (Western region) on phone 4931790 / 4930565 or fax: 4939463/4945831 or e-mail: Pramila.sequeira@ciionline.org

Programme

0900 hrs

Registration

Inaugural session

0930 hrs

Welcome remarks

Mr. Nischal H Israni

Chairman & Managing Director

Blue Cross Laboratories Ltd.

0940 hrs

Opening remarks

Dr. Gopakumar Nair

Secretary General, CIPROM

0950 hrs

Theme presentation

Dr. N. L. Mitra

Vice Chancellor

National Law University, Jodhpur

1005 hrs

Inaugural speech

Dr. Swati Piramal

Chief Scientific Officer,

Nicholas Piramal India Ltd.

1025 hrs

Tea / Coffee-break

Technical Session I

1045 hrs - 1300 hrs

The key "elements" in the life of a patent - From

Mr. Donald Bollella

"Draft" to lodgement

US Patent Attorney

Prosecuting Patents in India - scope to "invent

Mr. Manoj Pillai

around" the Procedures

Patent Attorney

Patent Prosecution for Biotechnology Patents

Dr. Prabuddha Ganguli

Patent Attorney

1300 hrs

Interactive Session

1300 hrs

Lunch

Technical Session II

1415 hrs - 1530 hrs

Claiming : From Licensing Perspective

Mr. Donald Bollella

Doctrine of Equivalents and Prosecution History

Mr. Donald Bollella

[File Wrapper] Estoppel -

Mr. Manoj Pillai

Dr. Prabuddha Ganguli

Panel Discussion

Dr. Gopakumar Nair

1530 hrs

Interactive Session

1600 hrs

Vote of thanks

Ms. Jayanti Ghose

Vice Chairman, CIPROM