Digital technologies have touched and transformed all spheres of society.
Mobile, Cloud and AI-ML technologies are driving rapid innovations –
incremental and disruptive. There is also a shift in favour of standards’-based
products and solutions in the market place. In this scenario, Intellectual
Property and Standard Essential Patents have assumed tremendous significance in
the overall composition of product offerings.
There
is a need to educate and raise awareness on IPRs and SEPs within the research
and Techpreneurs community, especially in the SME segment.
TSDSI,
India’s Telecom SDO, is partnering with Jindal School of Banking & Finance
and Department of Telecommunication, Govt. of India to organise a Webinar on
“SEPs and IPRs in the Tech Driven Society – Opportunities for SMEs” on 16 July
2020, where an overview of IPRs, SEPs from a SME will be shared by Prof. Ashish
Bhardwaj, Dean and Executive Director, Office of Rankings, Benchmarking and
Institutional Transformation (ORBIT), Jindal School of Banking & Finance.
About
the Webinar:
Prof. Bharadwaj will explain the linkages between patent rights, technology
innovation, and the creation of wealth for shared prosperity of societies and
India’s experience in this context. He will further discuss licensing of SEPs
on Fair, Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory (FRAND) terms focusing on India and
the potential of and opportunities for the Indian SMEs and Startup sector in
leveraging IP for technological advancement and to climb up the global
technology value chain.
The
webinar will be moderated by Mr Kishore Babu. DDG – Standards, Research and
Innovation, Department of Telecommunication, Govt. of India
Speaker:
Professor (Dr) Ashish Bharadwaj serves as the Dean of the Jindal
School of Banking & Finance, which was established in 2018. Professor
Bharadwaj also serves as Executive Director of the University Office for
Rankings, Benchmarking and Institutional Transformation (ORBIT). He is also
Founding Director of Jindal Initiative on Research on Intellectual Property and
Competition (JIRICO), which is the largest academic think-tank within a
university in India that focuses on technology innovation, market competition
and patents for shared prosperity of society. Professor Bharadwaj holds B.A.
Honours degree in Economics from the University of Delhi and M.Sc. Economics
from Madras School of Economics, College of Engineering, Anna University in
India. He was awarded the Max Planck Society Doctoral Fellowship to pursue
research at the prestigious Max Planck Institute for Innovation &
Competition in Munich (Germany) and was subsequently awarded a Ph.D. by the Max
Planck Institute and the Ludwig Maximillian’s University of Munich (LMU).
Professor Bharadwaj writes on the role of technology innovation, intellectual
property and competition in shaping societies; technical standards and patent
licensing; national IPR & science-technology-innovation policies. His other
areas of interest are the interface of finance, law and new technology. Two of
his books on technology innovation and patents that were published by Springer
International have collectively been downloaded more than 100,000 times since
their release in 2018.
Moderator:
Mr Kishore Babu is the DDG – SRI with the Department of
Telecommunications. He is also the Vice Chair, Telecommunications Development
Advisory Group (TDAG) of ITU (International Telecommunications Union) – from
Asia-Pacific Region and the Vice Chair, Council Working Group (CWG) Internet,
ITU. He has more than 28 years of experience in diverse leadership positions in
Information & Communication Technologies (ICTs), Telecommunications.
Kishore Babu has made important contributions on ITU, APT and other Platforms
for ITU WTDC, ITSO Assembly Parties meeting, ITU WCIT, WSIS, APT meetings.
Recording
For the Session