Date: 4/28/2010
TUMSPR: Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) in a joint move with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the Iranian Organization for Real Estate Property and Deeds Registration held a three-day conference to celebrate the World Intellectual Property Day and evaluate its role in medical and pharmaceutical sciences on April 26 to 28, 2010.
On April 26 to 28, 2010, Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the Iranian Organization for Real Estate Property and Documents Registration held a three-day conference to celebrate the World Intellectual Property Day and evaluate its role in medical and pharmaceutical sciences in TUMS headquarters.
The opening speech was carried out by Dr. Ahmad Touiserkani, the head of the Iranian Organization for Real Estate Property and Deeds Registration said that supporting intellectual property and patenting pharmaceutical innovations was of great value at it was interconnected with important social domains such as health and quality of life. He then argued that the pharmaceutical industry was based on vast investments in innovative research, allocating lots of time into the matter and it highly needed the support for their intellectual properties.
The chancellor for Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), Dr. Bagher Larijani was the second to take the floor. While welcoming the guests and the participants of the conference, the chancellor said "When we want to carry out research on the connectivity of academic institutions and industry, we have to regard a systematic relationship between technological growth centers, technology parks and health cities and attentively observing intellectual properties.
Exhibiting his displeasure of the number of internationally patented inventions, something around 20, in contrast to the high number of creations domestically, the chancellor called for the need for a tighter criteria for patenting in the country to result in a higher quality of innovations soproblem solving in the real world.
He then hinted at the need for at least 300 international patents in medical and pharmaceutical sciences that entailed robust strategic planning by the ministry of health and medical universities.
Dr. Ghanei, the health vice-minister for research, was the third to take the stage. His core message was on the importance of intellectual property and said that absence of intellectual property was an obstacle in developing science into technology and production of wealth.
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