Media Release
Mangaluru, Dec 6: RDL Technologies Pvt Ltd received “The Best Patents Portfolio in Medium Enterprise in the Engineering category” of CII Industrial Intellectual Award 2019, held at New Delhi. The fifth International Conference on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) was held during December 3 and 4 at Hotel Le Meridian, New Delhi.
The award was presented by Dr R A Mashelkar, recipient of Padma Vibhushan (Yr 2014), Padma Bhushan (Yr 2000) and Padma Shri (Yr 1991).
The conference was also attended by eminent personalities like N N Prasad, assistant director-general and chief of staff in the office of the director-general, World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) - Geneva; Arvind Takur, chairman, CII-IPR; and R Saha, senior advisor-CII, who were also present during the awarding ceremony.
The fifth edition of CII Industrial Intellectual Property Awards were conferred on 11 companies on Wednesday for best portfolios in Patents, Design, and Trademarks. There were separate awards for large, medium, small-sized companies and start-ups in two broad categories of Engineering and Life Science.
The awards were given at 5th International IPR Conference, jointly organized by CII, Intellectual Property Office India and Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade. The theme of the conference was Innovation and IP led Technology for a $5 Trillion Economy.
CII Industrial Intellectual Property Awards aim at recognition and celebration of enterprises which have embraced IP generation and protection to fuel their business and economic growth. The purpose of these awards is to encourage organizations to foster a culture of IP and its commercialization, bring the achievements of enterprises in public domain, set up linkages with academic and research institutions in India and abroad, inform the government about IP-driven enterprises and engage such enterprises in policy-making exercises.
Raghavendra G Shetty, CEO, RDL Technologies Pvt Ltd and Dr Anush Bekal, associate professor, in-charge of Industry Connect and Sahyadri-CII, Sahyadri College of Engineering & Management were present during the awarding ceremony.