Member of the University Grants Commission of Bangladesh Professor Masuma Habib at a workshop in Khulna on Monday said that the patent registration process needed to be simplified to protect intellectual property.
She said this while speaking as chief guest at the workshop titled Ensuring Intellectual Property Rights for University Teachers at the URP Lecture Theatre of the Academic Building of Khulna University, said a press release.
Organised by the UGC, the workshop was chaired by Durga Rani Sarkar, director of the Strategic Planning and Quality Assurance Division of the UGC.
Khulna University vice-chancellor Professor Md Rezaul Karim and UGC secretary Md Fakhrul Islam were present as special guests at the workshop.
The UGC has taken the initiative to form a cell to ensure the innovative ideas and intellectual property rights of university teachers, Masuma Habib said, adding that it was important to simplify the patent registration process to build a strong intellectual property rights system.
The IPR is the recognition of legal rights for creative work, innovation and other intellectual discoveries, she mentioned, adding that the UGC was continuously organising awareness workshops to popularise IPR among the concerned.
Professor Rezaul Karim said that impactful research was being done at Khulna University. 鈥楧ue to the complexity of patent registration, teachers are being deprived of the intellectual property rights of these researches.鈥�
Fakhrul Islam urged everyone to be interested in IPR patent registration to keep pace with the developed world.
Engineer Mohammad Monir Ullah, deputy director of the UGC鈥檚 SPQA division, and Md Habibur Rahman, deputy director of the department of Patents, Industrial Designs and Trademarks, highlighted various aspects of patent registration at the workshop.