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4.Copyrights Table 2.7: Copyright filing and registration details during 2011-2020

Teaching is one of the core functions at the universities and research institutions. The intellectual property S. No. Diary no. Name of Innovation/ Technology Date of filing Registration no.
generated from teaching activities involves publications, books, print media, presentations, flyers,
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brochures, etc. Such types of intellectual property are protected by copyright. The Copyright Act, 1957 (as 1. 8863/2011- Resources-A Regional Resource July 27, 2011 SW-6754/2013
amended by the Copyright Amendment Act 2012) governs the subject of copyright law in India. Thereby, COSW Characterizing System
to protect the literary, artistic and software works of IARI and start-ups/ entrepreneurs supported by ZTM 2. 8864/2011- USAR-An EIA tool for managing July 22, 2011 SW-6497/2013
& BPD Unit, the Unit manages copyrights' filings and registrations.These copyrights belong to ICAR under COSW salt affected agricultural lands and
the section 4.2.2 of Chapter 5 of ‘ICAR Guidelines for Intellectual Property Management and Technology irrigation waters
Transfer/ Commercialization’, which states - ‘ICAR scientists/innovators shall assign the IP rights in the 3. 13608/2015- Decision Support System For Soil December 15, 2015 8955/2016/
research results obtained by them to their employer, viz. the ‘Indian Council of Agricultural Research’. Given CO/SW & Health Assessment 2016-COSW
that innovation is protectable through patents, trade secrets, and plant variety protection, copyright is an
area which helps scientists and researchers engaged in agri-innovation at IARI and ICAR to protect their 4. 5239/2017- Design of ‘Micro Irrigation System’ March 27, 2017 SW-9322/2017
creative intellect through publication, books and other forms. All the publications produced by the institute CO/SW (DOMIS)
are protected under the copyright automatically. This right comes into play as soon as the scientist or the 5. 15720/2019- Infocrop v2.1 September 25, 2019 SW-13440/2020
CO/SW
staff creates an original piece of work and does not require registration per se.
6. 18536/2019- Irrigation and Fertigation Scheduler November 21, 2019
As of date, eight copyright filings have been made and among them seven have been registered. The copyright CO/SW (IFSHED) SW-13196/2020
registrations were obtained for the software, viz. ‘Resources- A Regional Resource Characterizing System’, 7. 11672/2020- Draksha- Vitismod V1, A Grape August, 2020
‘USAR- An EIA Tool for Managing Salt Affected Agricultural Lands And Irrigation Waters’, ‘Decision Support CO/SW Simulaion Model -
System For Soil Health Assessment’, ‘Design of ‘Micro Irrigation System’ (DOMIS)’, Infocrop v2.1, Irrigation 8. 21155/2020- Web InfoCrop-Wheat December, 2020
and Fertigation Scheduler (IFSHED) and ‘Draksha- Vitismod V1, A Grape Simulaion Model’ created by the CO/SW -
ICAR scientists (Table 2.7). As the statistics reveal, two (2) copyrights were obtained in the fiscal year 2013-14.
These applications were filed in the previous fiscal year.

In the fiscal year 2016-17 and 2017-18, registrations were obtained for single applications filed in the previous
fiscal years respectively. Copyright is one area, where the scope for work remains limited, since the category
of innovations being dealt with can be more suitably protected by other kinds of IPRs and copyrights, in this
context, are useful, only when some computer program or algorithm is to be protected. Other creative works
like publication, books, print media, etc. are automatically protected after creation. Efforts are being made
to give due care to copyrighted materials, as in today’s world of internet, anyone from across the world can
have access to any copyrighted materials. Therefore, awareness has to be generated in protecting scientific
copyrighted information.
IP Spectra

IP Spectra is an Intellectual Property Facilitation Centre (IPFC) for agro-based MSMEs. It was established
in 2016 for providing IP services effectively to agro-based MSMEs with the financial support of MSME,
Government of India. The mission of IP Spectra is to provide complete IP solution and IP services like Drafting
and Filing Applications for Patent, Copyright, Trademark, Industrial Design, PPVFR; Pre-grant and Post-grant
Services; hand-holding support towards technology commercialization and Advisory Services to Agri-start-ups
and MSMEs as well as to create awareness about the benefits of IPR. The IP Spectra website www.ipspectra.
ztmbpd.iari.res.in was launched to reach out to the Agri-start-ups and MSMEs and to create awareness about
IP management.
9. Copyright law in India is governed by the Copyright Act, 1957, which has been amended six times, with the last amendment in 2012. It is a
comprehensive statute providing for copyright, moral rights (known as author’s special rights) and neighbouring rights (rights of broadcasting Under this initiative, incubated start-up companies were taught about the importance of Intellectual property
organisations, performers and droit de suite).
management for attaining competitive edge in the global market. During 2017-2020, 125 Incubated start-ups
under different incubation programs were mentored individually.

Their intellectual property management strategies were formulated and helped in implementation in the

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