During the workshop, Chief Guest Mrs. Pooja Kumar said that intellectual property rights are a set of laws and rules that protect the creative works and innovations of a person or organization. These rights enable those who develop new ideas, inventions, literary and artistic works, symbols, names and images. And it was also told that there are many important laws related to intellectual property rights in India such as Patent Act 1970, Copyright Act 1957, Trademark Act 1999, Industrial Design Act 2000, Geographical Indications (Registration and Protection) Act 1999 and Plant Variety and Farmers Rights Act 2001 which protect various types of intellectual property. On this occasion, there was a detailed discussion on patent, design, trademark, copyright, GI tag etc. and the benefits of all those sub-components of intellectual property were also told. It was also told that copyright gives researchers the right to share and license their work, so that they can disseminate their research.