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  Simple & Effective Ways to Protect Your Intellectual Property by: VIJAY SARDANA Techno-legal Expert  Advocate, Supreme Court of India YouTube Channel: @VijaySardana.INSIGHTS As soon as you think of investing in research for a better future, you have to plan for its protection from unauthorised use as well.  It is a common experience that when any new invention comes to light, the investors' initial thought may be to let the world know about the achievement and breakthrough. While shouting your success from the rooftops is appealing, before you do that, you need to consider how best to protect the same, what you have developed and invested to develop. Important point to note that legal options like Patents and copyrights can offer you some security, but don’t always mean that your design is completely protected, as copies can certainly emerge.  Based on the author's experience, there are several other simple ways which you may consider and they have their own strengths.  B

Business Practices for Innovation Vijay Sardana Techno-legal Expert Advocate, Supreme Court of India  Innovation & Risk Management Specialist In the knowledge economy and in the competitive world, the point of differentiation between progressive and stagnant organizations is resources including time commitment toward innovation. Innovation is and will remain the key driver for the success of any organization in the future. For survival, businesses must continually innovate and adapt the same at a faster speed to outperform their rivals for survival and to attract investments. Creative disruptions will decide the future of the competitors. The most important element in the innovation ecosystem is the need to retain an innovative and fertile mind. This will bring serious conflict between seniority and competency. Organizations must strive for competent human resources irrespective of age. If organizations are unable to identify and retain competent people, their existence is at risk.

Munich Security Conference (MSC) failed to recognise the Core Global Issues By: Vijay Sardana IIMA Alumnus, Techno-legal & IPR Expert Advocate, Supreme Court of India & National Green Tribunal  @vijaysardana The root cause of the global security crisis is the double standards of those in power on the international stage and capturing key committees of the UN and other international bodies like WTO and World bank and not keen to ensure reform even after 80 years. At MSC, global leaders are debating different visions for the future international order, which are often abstract and theoretical. Unfortunately, the whole forum has become a platform to debate Russia and China in the new world order. The western powers are still unable to digest the fact that many more countries are better equipped to handle the global crisis because they are bigger democracies and have better experience managing human and environmental crises. Clash of competing visions: The whole focus of the worl

Defence Sector must fix gaps in Procurement & R&D Policies to ensure "Make in India" By: Vijay SARDANA IIMA Alumni, Techno-Legal & IPR Expert Advocate, Supreme Court of India and NGT The Honourable Prime Minister is keen to make India self-reliant on critical technologies. This is the most critical decision to ensure the sovereignty of the largest democracy in the world. The Make-in-India program was initiated to push this agenda. Like any other scheme, many companies took this initiative seriously and many started playing with the scheme and trying to project their imported products as “Make in India” by projecting incorrect information.  It is high time that the ‘Make-in-India’ evaluation process must be calibrated so that good companies really committed to India must get due recognition for their efforts and defence forces must also support this effort seriously.  Unfortunately, many trading companies have started claiming that they are doing indigenous manufac