I think most of us are effected by a Critique Virus. This has led us to criticize every thing under the sun covering the land mass of our beloved country, Pakistan. We do not analyze our problems threadbare and get to their solutions thru excessive civil society activism and lobbying. Pakistan had introduced the PIPRO (Pakistan Intellectual Property Rights Ordinance) in the year 2000 to bring some semblance to our Innovative Environment. This was again reviewed in 2005 thru the IPO Act where all these Intellectual Property Offices were integrated under the Director General IPO and directly placed under the Prime Minister's Office. Even the FIA (Federal Investigation Agency) Act was modified to get the IPO Act implemented to protect the researcher/innovator holding the Intellectual Property (Patent, Design, Copy Rights, Trade Mark etc.) from counterfeits.
Yes, the system may not be functioning according to the best international practices but we all should keep on putting pressure on all the concerned government departments whose task it is under the IPO Act to provide succor to our researchers/innovators. The undersigned takes pride in establishing the first Intellectual Property Rights Office (IPRO) in a Public Sector University, NUST in the year 2003 under the umbrella of the Technology Incubation Center and filed more than 50 patents (both local and US) of not only NUST researchers/innovators but also others within a period of three years. We may have to establish scores of other IPROs' in our universities, both Public/Private to provide this service to our innumerable researchers/innovators and then take up the cudgel with FIA and DG IPO to have their intellectual property rights protected well under the existing laws on our statutory books. We have to do it ourselves and not wait for angels to descend from our blue skies to do it for us. Good luck and god speed.
Engr. Mansoor Malik
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From: shirazbashir@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 17:16:40 +0500
Subject: [pakgrid] Unsung heroes: Incomplete alchemy
Yes, the system may not be functioning according to the best international practices but we all should keep on putting pressure on all the concerned government departments whose task it is under the IPO Act to provide succor to our researchers/innovators. The undersigned takes pride in establishing the first Intellectual Property Rights Office (IPRO) in a Public Sector University, NUST in the year 2003 under the umbrella of the Technology Incubation Center and filed more than 50 patents (both local and US) of not only NUST researchers/innovators but also others within a period of three years. We may have to establish scores of other IPROs' in our universities, both Public/Private to provide this service to our innumerable researchers/innovators and then take up the cudgel with FIA and DG IPO to have their intellectual property rights protected well under the existing laws on our statutory books. We have to do it ourselves and not wait for angels to descend from our blue skies to do it for us. Good luck and god speed.
Engr. Mansoor Malik
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From: shirazbashir@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 17:16:40 +0500
Subject: [pakgrid] Unsung heroes: Incomplete alchemy
Dr Suleman Ashraf is the director of Satuma, a private company involved in the manufacture of UAVs which are used by the Pakistan Air Force. According to him, the lack of legal protection is one of the major hurdles facing scientific advancement in Pakistan today. "In the West it was realised very early on that due recognition should be given with legal protection to someone who invents or introduces new ideas. Thus the concept of patent was born," he says. Ashraf admits that patent laws also exist in Pakistan but says that, due to a lack of trust in the legal system, people are still reluctant to share knowledge. This, in turn, leads to stagnation. "Globally speaking, where we stand now is due to the cumulative knowledge gathered over the millennium and passed on to the next generations." Indeed, we have seen further only because we have stood on the shoulders of giants, but here every researcher has to start from scratch.
"We thus keep inventing the same thing over and over or keep making the same mistake over and over because no one will guide us," says Ashraf.
http://tribune.com.pk/story/238585/unsung-heroes-incomplete-alchemy/
-Shiraz
"We thus keep inventing the same thing over and over or keep making the same mistake over and over because no one will guide us," says Ashraf.
http://tribune.com.pk/story/238585/unsung-heroes-incomplete-alchemy/
-Shiraz
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