“To create something from nothing, in all the natural world is a uniquely human ability. Using our minds we originate works of arts, generate inventions, accumulate knowledge and discover truths about the world we live in.” Marlin Bennett in Knowledge Power

As more and more companies, products and services vie with each other today to seek a shelf in the world’s market palace, history serves to remind us always that success is but tenuous and lurking threats snatch away the best of ideas from the unwary in myriad ways.

What sets our information age apart from prior periods in history is the price tag we put on these humans intellectual creations and the mechanisms we have put in place to protect them. The establishment of corporate IP cells, dedicated solely to exploiting IP assets owned by respective companies, is proof of the changing times.

While geography is no constraint to competition; ideas, business concepts and intellectual properties that are well protected, alone can be carried profitably from one market to another. Apart from competitors trespassing and free riding, a larger problem for creative entrepreneurs with brilliant business ideas is in not knowing how to leverage and exploit them advantageously. Success stories are not only built around great ideas but also on how well they are told and managed!

That is best learnt at IIPS! IIPS was set up visualizing the future demand   for clarity on best practices in efficient management and resourceful utilization of innovation, for building core competencies in intellectual property law and for the development of robust policies to regulate technological growth.  In that direction it provides comprehensive training in the study and application of the various forms of intellectual properties like patents, copyrights, trademarks, designs.

The principle idea behind this set-up is to train and educate lawyers, agents, managers, consultants and experts in industry and government in intellectual property rights, specifically patents and reduce thereby the distortions and impediments to international and national trade arising out of ignorance of these rights and related laws. After all knowledge by itself does not pay, it is what you do with it that does!

Through an dynamic market determined curricula, a committed pedagogy and dedicated team of expert IP faculty, the focus at IIPS remains on contributing to a strong knowledge economy through the building of a robust IP culture and awareness. It often goes beyond the boundaries of a structured curriculum to successfully design many interesting and industry relevant programs. The infrastructure and state of art facilities create an ideal and inviting ambience for learning .

In the advance of civilization it is new knowledge that paves the way and the pavement is eternal! As Director of this unique and prestigious Institute, this little pearl in the oasis of learning, I hope that IIPS continues to serve as that eternal pavement to India and its seekers of new knowledge.