KAPILA campaign launched for Intellectual Property

KAPILA campaign launched for Intellectual Property

Part of: GS Prelims and GS- III – Intellectual Property

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• KAPILA campaign was in news recently.

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KAPILA

• The Government launched a campaign namely Kalam Program for Intellectual Property Literacy and Awareness Campaign (KAPILA) for Intellectual Property Literacy and creating patent awareness on 15th October 2020.

• Objectives: 

1. 1. creating awareness regarding Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) in Higher Education Institutions(HEIs),
   2. enabling of IP protection of inventions originating from faculty and students of HEIs,
   3. development of Credit Course on IPR,
   4. training program on IPR for faculty and students of HEIs and
   5. sensitization and development of a vibrant IP filing system.

• So far, total of 46,556 users have been registered for KAPILA.

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