IIT Kharagpur, NUJS Collaborate to Organise Joint Academic Programs for Patent Rights, Copyrights & IPR

New Delhi: IIT Kharagpur and NUJS have signed an MoU to offer joint academic programs and faculty support for various courses. The program will lead to the granting of Patent Rights, Copyrights, and Intellectual Property Rights (IPR).

In addition, the two institutes will also offer certificate/diploma courses relating to law, science, engineering, technology and practical training. This unique collaboration brings together the technical expertise of IIT Kharagpur and the legal acumen of NUJS, fostering innovation and protecting intellectual property. 

The MoU was signed by WB NUJS Vice Chancellor Nirmal Kanti Chakrabarti at IIT Kharagpur campus in the presence of Director Prof V K Tewari, Registrar Capt Amit Jain (Retd), Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law Dean, Prof Dipa Dube and its Associate Dean Prof Debashish Chakravarty.

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Prof. V K Tewari stated that implementing this joint program for the multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary development of students, as mentioned in NEP 2020, will promote translational research domains encompassing law and technology.

He added, "Our law school has been recognized among the top 10 in India by NIRF ranking 2023 and we hope to amalgamate technical studies with law in a larger perspective of excellence in mutually convergent areas of both domains.”

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Chakrabarti added, "The systems of both institutions will grow by exchanging our human resources as well as academic resources, thereby attempting to fulfil the objectives of NEP2020. We will start our collaboration within this month itself to formulate some road maps”.

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