Thursday, September 15, 2005

9:15 AM - 9:45 A.M.

Registration

9:45 AM - 10:30 A.M.

Inauguration

10:30 AM - 11:15 A.M.

Inaugural Address

Prof. S. Jayachandran (Presentation)
Dean, School of Life Sciences, Pondicherry University

 

11:15 AM - 11:30 A.M.

Tea Break

SESSION - I

11:30 A.M. - 12:15 P.M.

Biotechnology and IPR (Presentation)

Dr. N.R. Subbaram
Consultant (IPR) & Patent Attorney, Chennai

 

12:15 P.M. - 1:00 P.M.

Intellectual Property Rights: Issues for researchers in Molecular Biology (Presentation)

Prof. Parameshwar P. Iyer
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

1:00 P.M. - 2:00 P.M.

Lunch Break

SESSION - II

2:00 PM - 2:45 PM

India, Biotechnology and IPR (Presentation)

Mr. Madhav Kulkarni
Biocon Limited, Bangalore

2:45 PM - 3:30 PM

IPR in Bioinformatics and Biotechnology (Presentation)

Mr. T. Muralidharan
Krishna & Saurastri Associates, Bangalore

3:30 PM - 4:15 PM

Protecting Bioinformatics Tools: An Overview (Presentation)

Ms. Dorey Benjamin
Orissa University of Agriculture & Technology, Bhubaneswar

4:15 PM - 4:30 PM

Tea Break

4:30 PM - 5:15 PM

What is Patent? (Presentation)

Mr. T. V. Madhu Sudhan
Patent Office - Chennai

Friday, September 16, 2005

SESSION-III

09:45 AM - 10:30 AM

Innovation, Invention and Intellectual Property Rights vis a vis Biotechnology : Can India catch the Bus? (Presentation)

Prof. T. Ramakrishna
Bangalore University, Bangalore

 

10:30 AM - 11:15 AM

Bioinformatics and Intellectual Property Rights - The intricacies of the IPR regime (Presentation)

Prof. N. Manohar
Tamil Nadu Dr. Ambedkar Law University, Chennai

11:15 AM - 11:30 AM

Tea Break

SESSION-IV

11:30 AM - 12:15 PM

Overview of Intellectual Property in India (Presentation)

Mr. Rama Sarma
Kochar & Co., Chennai

12:15 PM - 1:00 PM

IPR in Bioinformatics and Biotechnology (Presentation)

Mr. T. Muralidharan
Krishna & Saurastri Associates, Bangalore

01:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Lunch Break

SESSION-V

2:15 PM - 2:45 PM

Affordable drugs: Can we still produce them? (Presentation)

Ms. Dorey Benjamin
Orissa University of Agriculture & Technology, Bhubaneswar

3:15 PM - 4:00 PM

Bioinformatics: Opportunities and Challenges (Presentation)

Dr. D. Sundar
Bioinformatics Centre, Pondicherry University

4:00 PM - 4:15 PM

Tea Break

4:15 PM - 5:00 PM

Valedictory Session and Certificate Distribution

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