A Survey about the Awareness, Knowledge and Attitude towards Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) among the Dental Researchers of SGT University, Gurugram

Abstract

With the advancements in modern science and technology, Intellectual Property Rights came in to existence to benefit and encourage innovative people for their work. The term intellectual property rights gained his strength from a long time and much expanded since then. These rights are applied to all innovation irrespective of educational qualifications and implies to all subjects. Dentistry in recent years has also developed interest in the field of intellectual property rights (IPR) and Patents due to extensive research in the fraternity. Therefore, it is need of the hour to check out the awareness about intellectual property rights. If people would aware about IPR, then only can proceed for IPRs in future for their research findings. As the universities are the main hub of intellectuals therefore, aim of the present study was to determine the intellectual property rights (IPR) awareness level among the dental scholars of SGT University, Gurugram.  Hence, this would be an advantage for dental researchers to explore and expand their scope of activities.