New Delhi, April 26 (KNN) On the occasion of “World Intellectual Property Day”, Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) and FICCI are organizing a conference on “Leveraging India’s Demographic Dividend through IP” today.
This is akin to World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) theme focusing on IP and youth innovating for a better future. 

The conference will be inaugurated by DPIIT Secretary Anurag Jain. The day-long conference brings together major stakeholders of the innovation ecosystem such as policymakers, IP office, academia, startups, MSMEs, creative industry, businesses and research institutes.

The conference would cover diverse topics starting from the need for making the youth IP savvy and progressing to IP commercialisation. It would also touch upon the development of the IP regime in India and the role IP plays in the creative and innovation sectors, startups and MSMEs.

The Government of India, with an intent to modernize the IP office and reduce legal compliances, along with facilitating filing of IP applications especially by start-ups, small and medium enterprises, individual innovators has adopted a slew of administrative and legislative reforms to transform India’s IPR regime. 

Another important objective has been to take the Intellectual Property to the grass-root level and ensure the innovations happening at the local and grass-root levels also seek protection under the respective IP laws and the individual innovators are able to seek commercial benefits through protection of their ideas and innovation. (KNN Bureau)