The interview is about:
Shweta Singh, the Founder of EnnobleIP, is interviewed by Akriti Bhatia, the Co-Founder of Jan Ki Baat about the idea of IPR for small and medium-sized enterprises and startups. Singh believes that the lack of awareness amongst SMEs and the corresponding absence of proper guidance to the start-ups is something that can be tacked with the help of IPR. Domestic innovations and inventors lose out when they miss out on getting a patent for their products or end up with foreign companies gaining their ownership rights. Singh cites this unawareness about patenting as the reason which ┬Уstop(s) us from making our innovations┬Ф.
The National Symposium on IPR for SMEs and Startups, held in December 2016, provided a platform for various stakeholders to join the discussion on Intellectual Property Rights, a relatively new economic and legal concept in India. Getting ownership rights over intellectual property is pertinent for entrepreneurs and creators in order to protect their unique ideas.
The current environment┬Тs being favourable to the startup culture has led to a debate about associated topics, IPR being one of them. The contribution of public policies and facilities to private ideas and products requires an in-depth discussion, a goal that the Conference attempted to fulfil.
