Patent Drive 2016: Prelaunch Activities

In the run up to Patent Drive 2016, a one and half day long workshop, comprising of three sessions, was held during Sept. 24-25, 2016 at NKN Room, Dept. of Electronics & ECE, IIT Kharagpur.

In the first session, Dr. J. K. Pradhan, Deputy Controller, Kolkata Patent Office was the main speaker. He explained basics of patenting, Patent Office practices and presented various case studies. Towards the end of the session, he along with our in-house experts attended queries of the workshop participants. In the second session, Mr. Sujith Subramanian, Manager, SRI-B CTO/ IPR Dept., Samsung R & D, Bangalore kept audience captive discussing strengths and weaknesses of academic IP and gave direction how to generate quality IP from academic R & D. There was Q & A session at the end of this session, too. In the third session, Dr. Sanchita Ganguli, Patent Attorney from S. Majumdar & Co. explained the significance of patent / claim drafting and also the means to do it by real-life examples. A Q & A session followed at the end. The workshop had an important take-home message - quality patent requires quality invention and quality drafting.

A post workshop follow-up was arranged yesterday evening, 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM at RCC Seminar Room, Dept. of Electronics & ECE to clear specific doubts of our inventors. With these prelaunch activities, we are looking for a successful launch of Patent Drive 2016 tomorrow. Here, are some pictures of the two warming-up events. The videos of the talk didn't come that well; however, we are sharing the links as major part of it can be found useful (Dr. Pradhan, Mr. Sbramanian, Dr. Ganguli). [We have better recording of the technical sessions of launch function dated 29th Sept. in the next post.]

Patent Drive 2016

Calling representatives of all research lab.s, innovation centres, hall tech. teams and, individual researchers, nearly ready with an invention disclosure to attend the pre-launch workshop of the new edition of Patent Drive scheduled on 24-25th Sept., 2016 at NKN Room, Dept. of Electronics & ECE, IIT Kharagpur! Individuals can work together with the patent drive team on drafting for a week and Patent Drive 3rd edition* can look for a mega launch with large number of abstract / disclosure submissions in the patent portal on the launch day itself! The target is 100 submission in 100 days like every other edition of patent drive.

Registration is free but mandatory. Limited seats are available for the workshop (75). Hurry, before it gets filled up! The speaker list include Deputy Controller from Kolkata Patent Office, Attorney from Patent Firm, Expert from Patent Office of Samsung, Bangalore. Besides patentability and patent drafting, the discussion will cover commercialization aspect too.

Registration link http://tinyurl.com/patentdrive16

Note: All registered within 12:00 noon of 23rd Sept., 2016 are confirmed of their participation by creating additional capacity in the workshop venue. All confirmed participants have been informed by email of workshop schedule. We regret that anyone registering later cannot be accommodated in this pre-launch workshop due to space constraint. However, other services that come with post-workshop follow up activities will be extended to such candidates by creating a special window, which will be communicated to them separately.

The 29th Sept., 2016 evening launch event at S. N. Bose Auditorium is open to all! The special invitee for this function will be National IP Award winner in G. I. category.

(*Patent Drive is supported by MHRD IPR Chair Professor grant)