OREANDA-NEWS. The ceremony for Intellectual Property Awards was held at Steelenium Hall, Tata Steel, Jamshedpur. Through this event, the efforts of Tata Steel's employees, who contributed towards building a portfolio of more than 200 granted patents, were recognised. Partha Sengupta, VP, RM and CSI, Tata Steel, chaired the event and presented the awards to the prolific inventors. Twelve awards were given to employees from different departments of the company, such as automation, scientific services, product application group, growth shop, refractory group, FP planning, etc.

The company celebrated Intellectual Week from April 22 to 27, 2013, and organised various events to raise IP awareness among the employees. Activities included IP awareness sessions, sharing knowledge notes, conducting an online IP quiz, etc. More than 600 employees participated in the quiz, whose winners also received awards at the function.

Mr Sengupta emphasised the need to further develop the portfolio and the need to capitalise and leverage the IP portfolio by creating differentiation in the market and developing first to the world technologies and products. He said, “I am happy and pleased to meet people who have excelled in their respective fields and innovated. I am delighted to see many people from different departments who have got together in putting the company ahead in so many aspects. I congratulate them and wish them success in their future endeavours. We shall also protect the intellectual property rights of individuals who make efforts to do something new and in order to become the steel power in the world; we shall help our best in this project.”