Intellectual Property Rights, My New Found Love
Dear Visitors, Greetings. Age is never an impediment to learn if you are passionate. Am a firm believer in this credo. So @63, I began diving into the new world of intellectual property rights or IPR as it is known. Actually, IPR is not that new. Way back in 1987 while working at The Indian Post (1987-89) in the then Bombay, I used to handle editorial supplements and telecom and computers was one of those chosen field of interests. Besides, used to co-report along with senior correspondent K T Jaganathan (now as Managing Editor-Business @ The Hindu). We have jointly authored several stories on the developments on the C-DoT (Centre for the Development of Telematics), the favorite child of the then telecom czar Sam Pitroda. Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Director Madhav V Pitke, who was also the founding directors of C-DoT, was one of our regular touch points. , Through him, we flew into Delhi for three day interaction with telecom officials an...