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Hyderabad , Oct. 14

WITH the global emphasis on intellectual property rights growing, India should focus on training a good number of judges in IP-related issues and set up special courts, manned by specialised judges, to deal with the issues.

Addressing the session on `Strategic issues and road map for developing countries' at the second international conference on `Innovation and IPR Strategy' and ninth Technology Summit and Technology Platform, Mr Pravin Anand, a senior patent and trade mark attorney, said about 50 judges in the country were concerned with IP issues. "Even these judges can't allot the time the issues deserve," he said.

He said the Government has appointed two core groups to make a law to protect traditional knowledge. The model draft for the first-of-its-kind law seeks to compensate communities for the their IP strengths.

"The Government has to discuss the draft and take a decision," he said.

Stating that a new genre of IP has been sprouting in the area of traditional knowledge, he said efforts should be made to protect the native knowledge.

Mr Prahlada, Director of the Defence Research and Development Laboratory (DRDL), said the roadmap for developing countries could be through vertical integration of hard infrastructure, horizontal integration of soft infrastructure and forging strategic alliances in the areas of space, atomic and defence areas.

Prof David J. Triggle of Suny University (Buffalo, US) said as the technologies of the two previous centuries were more or less driven by the paradigms of physics, the technologies of the 21st century will be driven by the paradigms of biology.

He said the application of TRIPS to the poor countries is significantly one-sided and unmodified form has the potential to impose costs and to increase the cycle of poor health and economic impoverishment.

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