A one-day workshop on Intellectual Property Rights
A one-day workshop on "Intellectual Property Rights" was organized on 28 March 2025 under the joint aegis of IQAC and PG departments of the local Mukand Lal National College, Yamuna Nagar. This workshop was conducted in collaboration with the Patent Information Center, Haryana Government and Intellectual Property Office, Government of India. At the beginning of the program, the acting principal of the college, Dr. Anil Dhawan, welcomed scientist Dr. Rahul Taneja from Patent Information Center, Haryana Government by giving him a bouquet and underlined the relevance of the said subject and told about the publication of quality research papers by researchers / scientists of India and the status of registration for intellectual property rights. In the first two sessions of the workshop, Dr. Rahul Taneja in his lecture explained to the students various aspects of Intellectual Property Rights such as Patent, Trademark, Geographical Indicator and Design and Copyright including the process of applying for them and the process of issuing the patent in a very interesting manner. Both the lectures were informative for the students. The keynote speaker also cleared the doubts of the students very easily.
In the afternoon session, Quiz competition and poster making competitions were conducted on Intellectual Property Rights. The results of this competition were as follows:-
Yashaswani, Ritika and Sumanlata secured first, second and third positions respectively in the Quiz competition.
Sumanlata, Preet and Khushi Sharma secured first, second and third positions respectively in the Post Making Competition.
About 180 students of postgraduate classes of the college participated in the workshop. Dr. Rachna Agarwal and Dr. Mahesh Kumar played the role of coordinators in the workshop. The PG department heads played an important role in the successful organisation of this workshop. The college’s acting principal Dr Anil Dhawan congratulated all the members of the organising team for the successful organisation of the workshop.
