The Mumbai based Gopakumar Nair Associates and GNA Patent Gurukul, intellectual property rights (IPR) consultants and advisers, will organise a one-day seminar and panel discussion on 'Intellectual Property Rights - Current Scenario' at the Rajiv Gandhi Centre Biotechnology, Thiruvananthapuram on February 20, 2007.

Eminent speakers from various fields including, M Radhakrishna Pillai, director, Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, N R Madhava Menon, former vice chancellor, National University of Judicial Sciences, Kolkatta and P Pushpangadan, UN Equator Initiative Laureate and former director of TBGRI, Thiruvananthapuram, will deal with different aspects of IPR. Apart, Gopakumar G Nair, former president of Indian Drug Manufacturers Association (IDMA), Sathish Mundayoor, scientist, Molecular Microbiology, RGCB and A Muralidharan, head, IPRF, Management Systems Area, VSSC will also talk on the subject.

For further details and registration contact: R Soman, resident director, Gopakumar Nair Associates, Phone: (0471) 235 3571 Mobile: (0) 944 715 3571 or E-Mail: somanr@dataone.in