October, 2007: The very often obscured subject matter of today’s knowledge economy is the invisible and intangible intellectual wealth which comes from human brain and manifested in the form of Invention, Technology, Patent, Trade Mark, Copyright and so on. The published data reveals that Copyright revenues alone (US$ 1.4 trillion) contributed to around 11 percent of US GDP growth which is US $ 12 trillion and accounts for almost double of India’s aggregate GDP in the year 2005. It is high time that India is awakened with its vast intellectual property resources and protects it before it’s too late with simultaneous value addition to its national wealth. It is unfortunate that India, the land of immense knowledge wealth is condemned by others for piracy although crude facts speak otherwise. There is a dire need for protection of our traditional knowledge and Bio-diversity which is being recycled abroad and dumped in our country due to ignorance of IPR laws and abhorrence towards legal
protection. The condition of publication of research work without provisional application with Patent authorities cause tremendous harm to our intellectual resource from being commercialized as the rule for protection is prior registration and not prior disclosure.

ITAG has undertaken the project of creating awareness on Intellectual property rights amongst business, industry and research institutions and helping them with proper IP asset management under a single window service plan through a network of several offices within and outside India. We are an organization where research training and consultancy go together in the field of IPR with the support of information technology and telecommunication. Our Technology Resource Centre (TRC) at Pune is fully equipped with highly skilled manpower and a large training infrastructure of more than 10000 square feet under one roof will cater to the growing need of knowledge dissemination in this field. We believe in our human resource and continuous learning process and to provide excellent service to our customers.

--Dr. D. R. Agarwal