Abstract
Intellectual property rights such as Copyright, Trademark, Patents and Trade secrets etc. help us to gain some protection against certain inventions by acknowledging the founder. In today's industry it is agreed that Intellectual Property Rights has a big role to play. This current study envisages the knowledge, attitude, practice regarding Intellectual Property Rights among dental task force attending private dental colleges.The survey was conducted among students of which were Interns, Post Graduates, faculty members and other dental surgeons attending private dental colleges in Navi Mumbai. The subjects of this study comprised of a total of 1020 students, faculty members and other dental surgeons from five different private dental institutes. The survey includes closed ended questions. Data analysis was performed using SPSS software version 17. Explaining calculations were used to summarize all the answers. A total of 889 students, faculty and other dental surgeons from private dental colleges responded. Results showed that about 83.5% believe the statement “Articles and other publications are protected by copyright.” 66.6% of participants would select trademark in order to protect their clinic or organization name. About 38.7% were aware of the term Intellectual Property Rights. It also suggests that only 10.9% have attended any seminar/conference pertaining to IPR. The students and faculty members have an overall sense of eagerness to learn and gain more knowledge based on IPR. Thus conducting more workshops and seminars based on IPR should be encouraged.
Highlights
Globalization and advancement in digital technologies have bought about changes in the rapidly emerging and evolving cognitive field as well as the hands-on department
A structured English language questionnaire that subsumed 24 close-ended questions containing 14 general questions based on Intellectual Property Right (IPR), 3 questions based on copyright, 5 questions based on trademark and 2 questions based on patents was curated similar to that used in a prior study about IPR awareness [2]
The study demonstrated the explicit facts regarding the awareness of IPR; the interns accounted for 31.8%, postgraduates – 28.3%, faculty members – 54.5%, other dental surgeons – 33.3% who were unaware of the term and a significant difference (p
Summary
Globalization and advancement in digital technologies have bought about changes in the rapidly emerging and evolving cognitive field as well as the hands-on department This has led to the increase in the importance of intellectual property rights (IPRs), which encourages fair use and preempts plagiarism. IPRs are artistic, creative ideas resulting from the human brain applying art and design and inventing something unique based on the community’s pursuit to add property [1]. These rights are assigned to creators for a specific period when the builder acquires them in their work [2]. An IPR license is often contractual and crucial to avoid unfair practice wherein the licensee is authorized by the licensor to perform tasks that otherwise would be illegal [7]
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