Campus Life Events   Events   Archives Seminar on Intellectual Property Rights Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology (SZABIST) organized a Seminar on Recognizing & Respecting Intellectual Property Rights in collaboration with Pakistan Scientific & Technological Information Centre (PASTIC) and Intellectual Property Organization (IPO). Purpose of the Seminar was to raise the level of Intellectual Property Rights awareness amongst students and academia, to develop a strong research culture, characterised by objectivity and originality, through creativity and responsibility. Scholars, academicians and officials from Government and private sector including Chairman Pakistan Science Foundation, Dr Syed Azhar Hasan participated in the Seminar. Speaking on the occasion, SZABIST Islamabad Campus Head, Syed Asad Hussain has said that there was a need to introduce the domain of Intellectual Property along with its segments and contents, to create importance of Intellectual Property for academia and Research. He urged the audience to contribute towards a society based on rights and respect by giving credit to people striving to excel through hard work. He informed that SZABIST has already been working with many government and private organizations to promote a Research culture in the country. Speakers from PASTIC and IPO also highlighted the significance of Intellectual property rights, patents, trade marks, copy rights and software related issues etc. In the end Syed Asad Hussain had distributed shields among the participants.