The UKM Graduate Centre Workshop Series 23/2015​: IP AWARENESS & PATENT SEARCH

The UKM Graduate Centre in collaboration with Centre for Collaborative Innovation, CCI is pleased to invite you to join The UKM Graduate Centre Workshop Series 23/2015​: IP AWARENESS & PATENT SEARCH.

The details of the workshop are as follow:

This workshop is limited to 35 participants only. So hurry and grab your seat now!

Those who are interested, kindly register at

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This program will highlight:

• Do you think your research is NEW in the world?
• WHY do you need to know about your IP rights
• WHY do we need to protect our IP
• WHAT are the types of IPs
• IMPORTANCE OF SEARCH PRIOR TO RESEARCH

SPEAKER

Mr. Ramakrishna is the Managing Director of ADIPVEN (M) Sdn. Bhd., a boutique IP firm based in Kuala Lumpur. The speaker, Mr. Ramakrishna Damodharan hails from Sungai Petani, Kedah and is an IP Attorney and has been in practice for last 15 years. He is a registered patent, trademark, industrial design and geographical indications agent in Malaysia and has degrees in Applied Chemistry and Law from University Malaya, Kuala Lumpur. He is currently doing his post-graduate degree in law in a local university. Mr. Ramakrishna is actively involved in the promotion of IP, speaking at many local and foreign conferences. He has been invited by organisations like Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB), UPM, USM, UTHM, Technology Park Malaysia (TPM) etc. to deliver talks on IP and commercialisation. He has also been invited by international agencies such as International Science, Technology and Innovation Centre for South-South Cooperation (ISTIC) which is under the auspices of UNESCO, Hong Kong Trade Development Center (HKTDC), Universiti of Brunei Darussalam (UBD) and Brunei Economic Development Board (BEDB) as well as various local government and private entities to deliver talks on IP matters.

In 2012, he was appointed as an IP Expert by the World Intellectual Property Office (WIPO) and he has conducted training as a WIPO Expert in various countries such as Indonesia, Brazil, Thailand, Vietnam etc.

In 2013, he was invited by Japanese Patent Attorneys Association (JPAA) to deliver a e-learning seminar on trade mark and design prosecution and litigation systems in ASEAN countries in English language – the first Asian to have done so. The seminar has been broadcast to more than 10000 patent attorneys in Japan.