Post Graduate Diploma in Intellectual Property and Technology Management in Agriculture (PGD-IPTMA)

NAARM has started one-year residential programme on “Post Graduate Diploma in Intellectual Property and Technology Management in Agriculture (PGD-IPTMA)” to train graduates/post graduates in agriculture and allied sciences in Jan 2010. For the information of readers, there are plenty of courses available in the country, which are offered, by various law colleges as NLS, NLU, NUJS and NALSAR ect. for Intellectual property Rights but all courses are in distance mode and none of the course was regular and specially designed for Agriculture or allied science students. This course was the second academic course offered by Academy after Post Graduate Diploma in Information Technology Management in Agriculture (PGD-ITMA). 

We are providing a brief of the PGD-IPTMA program as under;

Aim of Program: 

The Programme was started with aim to create Intellectual Property professionals with pool of knowledge about various Agriculture or allied science practices and principals.

Admission to the program and Students:

The candidates were selected all India basis through a written test, followed by Group Discussion and Interview. The first batch of 16 Intellectual students was started in January 2009 and successfully completed on Jan, 2010.  

Students: 
Following were the selected students for the PGDIPTMA course (here).

1.    Amol Ramling Nalawade

2.    Aruna Nadipalli

3.    Anil Hooda

4.    Anuradha Varma

5.    Manpreet Hora

 6.  Ruchica Goyal

 7.  Makarand Uttam Navale

 8.  Harimohan Naidu

 9.  Sahida Kamri

10. Lavanya Kishore

11. Naga Babji Neppali

12. Shailendra Kumar

13. Pawan Sut Mishra

14. Yamini Suresh Yadav

15. Purwa Rathi

16. Onkar Singh

Curriculum Design:

The course curriculum was designed and developed in deliberations with many senior executives from agri-business industry, Law colleges, Technology transfer firms, LPOs, KPOs, Legal consultants, academicians and policy-makers in government.

The academic faculty for the contact classes is drawn from various sources including research/industry/business/legal-organizations-in-public-and-private-sector, National Law Schools, technology consulting firms and KPOs working on IP and Technology Management areas. The programme contents were designed to expose the prospective students to concepts of Intellectual Property and technology management in agriculture, real life challenges through case studies from working professionals from industry, law firms, statutory bodies, and innovators at grass root and at corporate levels.

Curriculum having many courses as under;

(1). Issues in Agriculture and Rural Development (2). Project Management (3). Communication Skills (4). Principles of Agriculture Economics & Marketing (4). Principles of Organization & Management (5). Agriculture & Rural Development (6). Entrepreneurship development (7). Business communication (8). Internship project. (9). Basic of Intellectual Property Regime, it evolution and developments (10). The Indian Patent Regime (11). The Trademark Act-1999 (12). Copyright Act (13). The Design Act-2000 (14). the Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration & Protection) Act, 1999 (15). The Biological diversity Act-2002 (16). Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Rights Act-2001 (17). Various Industrial laws as Company Act-1954, (18).Technology Management, Negotiations, licensing practices and drafting agreements (19). IP Prosecutions and Litigations (20). Rural Innovation, its protection and management (20). Technology Entrepreneurship (21) World Trade organization and TRIPS (22). Various treaties and agreements related to IPR as International Treaty on Plant genetic Resource for food and agriculture (ITPGRFA), Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure, The International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV), Convention on Biological diversity (CBD), Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property,  Berne Convention,  Madrid Agreement for the Repression of False or Deceptive Indications of Source on Goods, Lisbon Agreement for the Protection of Appellations of Origin and their International Registration, Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks, Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks (which also provides for the international registration of certification marks) and many more topics.

Internship Projects:

As we all know that, Experiential Learning is an integral part of management education. Keeping this in mind, the internship opportunity was provided for the students, wherein they practiced many aspects learnt within the classroom. Post the third trimester, students gone for internship for with organizations as Andhra Pradesh Technology Development & Promotion Center (APTDC), Sathguru Management Consultants, Advanta Seeds, SciTech Patent Art (SPA), National Institute for Rural Development (NIRD), National Innovation Foundation (NIF), KPIT Cummins, John Deere , Fox Mondal  etc.

During internship, students underwent rigorous training under the guidance of functional area experts in the corporate. Students learnt many additional skills and expertise required to be successful in the real-life work atmosphere. At the end of internships, students prepared a report and submitted the certificate received from the internship provider organization, which was considered as a satisfactory remark of assigned project completion.

Placements: 
After the completion of internship, students attended interviews and got placements. We have made an attempt to connect to all NAARMIAN by linking their LinkedIn profiles, some of the profiles are not up to date, please bear with us. We will be updating more about NAARMIAN’s present working organizations in our coming posts.

This above said course has been discontinued after completion of first batch in Jan 2010 and Academy started two new courses i.e Post-Graduate Diploma in Management - Agriculture (PGDMA) and Post Graduate Diploma in Technology management in Agriculture (PGTMA). The PGDMA is two-year regular course approved by the All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE).PGDMA’s 1^st and 2^nd batches completed their course and working in many various agri. & allied sectors organization. The 3^rd and 4^th fourth batch is pursuing PGDM(A),  (We will be updating more about PGDMA students/professionals in our coming posts). PGTMA is the correspondence, short and modified version of one year fully residential program i.e. PGDIPTMA. Post Graduate Diploma in Technology Management in Agriculture is running in collaboration with University of Hyderabad (UoH). Presently this course has completed its first batch and 2^nd Batch is going on…

Even, the PGD-IPTMA course has been discontinued but the trained IP professionals (NAARMIAN) are continue in their domains and doing excellent job. We are proud on them. It is true that, we are not able to meet them as frequently, but they are in our professional and personnel touch. We are seeking their advice/guidance in various matters and will be continuing the same in coming years. 

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