Intellectual Property Facilitation Centres throughout the country

By Franklin R. Satyapalan

The government has commenced a programme to set up Intellectual Property Facilitation Centres throughout the country, Director General of Intellectual Property D. M. Karunaratne said yesterday.

"We hope to take the message of creating new inventions, registering inventions, intellectual property laws and their rights," he said.

According to the Director General, some of the space within the Vidhatha Centres, established throughout the country by the Ministry of Research and Technology, would be utilized initially in setting up Intellectual Property Facilitation Centres.

He said that the Ministry of Research And Technology, Ministry of Industry and Commerce and the National Science Foundation had joined hands with the Intellectual Property Office to establish those centres.

All funding for the three-year Pilot project would be borne by the government so as to help entrepreneurs/people to invent things, register their patents and to get the right commercialization.

The Ministry of Research and Technology has been entrusted with the task of identifying the three districts where the first three Intellectual Property Facilitation Centres should be established.

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