The Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law or RGSOIPL is a Law school based at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, in collaboration with the George Washington University Law School, Washington DC
It is engaged in the teaching and research of law with special emphasis on Intellectual Property Law. It commenced academic activities from the Academic Year 2006-07, on 20th July 2006. The school is named after late Rajiv Gandhi, former Prime Minister of India.
The school is the brainchild of Vinod Gupta, CEO of InfoUSA and Life Fellow of IIT Kharagpur, who proposed its setting up on 28 March 2005 and also promised a grant of one million US dollars to that end. The Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India accepted the proposal and announced a matching grant to RGSOIPL. The school of was formally inaugurated by the Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court, VS Sirpurkar, at the Kalidas auditorium in IIT Kharagpur on 23 July 2006, 3 days after the school started off with its flagship program.
Because of increasing relevance of Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), RGSOIPL will offer program to engineers, technologists and MBAs and train them to be IP attorneys subsequent to a 3 year program on the lines of the western countries. RGSOIPL will seek to fulfil the immediate need for a large number of Indian lawyers well-versed in intellectual property law whose services are needed to protect the intellectual property generated by Indian scientists, engineers and technologists in the sunrise sectors such as biotechnology, nanotechnology, bioinformatics, information Technology and computer software. Many eminent personalities in the legal and technology field have visited the school and delivered lectures, viz. Justice Umesh Chandra Banerjee [1] (Former Judge, Hon'ble Supreme Court of India), Justice Anand Mohan Bhattacharya (Former Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court), Justice A.K Ganguli (Sitting Judge, Hon'ble Supreme Court of India), Justice Pratap Ray ( Judge of the Calcutta High Court), Prabuddha Ganguli (Eminent IP expert), Rodney D. Ryder (eminent technology and media lawyer), Justice Giridhar Malviya ([Former Judge], [Allahabad High Court]), Justice Chittatosh Mukherjee (Former Chief Justice, Bombay and Calcutta High Courts), Barrister Jayant Mitra, Barrister Bimal Kumar Chatterji etc.
Under the guidance of Prof. N.L Mitra (Former Director, NLS Bangalore and Founder Vice Chancellor, National Law School Jhodhpur and Member, Bar Council of India), it will be reaching the realm of success by linking both technology and law.
Website: http://www.iitkgp.ac.in/departments/home.php?deptcode=RG
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