A Patent Drive review workshop was held on 28-01-2015 at S. N. Nose Auditorium, IIT Kharagpur during 6:00 - 9:00 PM. It was attended by about 200 research students and faculty.
Dean, Sponsored Research & Industrial Consultancy (SRIC), IIT Kharagpur in his inaugural speech explained the importance of patenting and shared the current status of patent drive. He and Professor-in-Charge, Intellectual Property Rights & Industrial Relations (IPR & IR) introduced key members of patent drive team - the faculty, staffs and Technology Transfer Group (TTG) student members. A short video of this speech can be found here (
Link).
TTG representative then made a brief presentation of activities undertaken on patenting and technology promotion in recent time. This was followed by a presentation by Prof. Tapas Kumar Bandypadhyaya who is now taking a lead role in Patent Drive. He explained the basics of patenting in a lucid way. The 27 minute video of this talk can be found here (
Link). One of the major component in any patent documentation is prior art search. Prof. M. Padmavati in her brief speech explained how to conduct patent search. She also emphasized how such search can help in defining any R&D problem. The 24 minute video of this talk can be found here (
Link).
The second session of the workshop began after a short tea break. In this, first, one student who filed patent recently explained the process and how to get the documentation right quickly. Then one young faculty shared his experience of interaction with an industry where technology was transferred last year. A 21 minute video where these inventors share their experience can be found here (
Link). Finally, there was lively interactive session where researchers cleared various queries from a panel of experts.
To follow up this patent drive workshop interaction, the following web form is prepared for our research community to help them in getting patents filed quickly.
http://tinyurl.com/patent-follow-up
We request our viewers to go through videos in the links provided here and in the youtube channel (
Link). These and the 4 page note available here (
Link) will reduce the processing time which is important in IP protection. Once ready, IITKGP research community is welcome to submit extended abstract of their invention through
www.ipportal-iitkgp.in
