Patent Drive Review Workshop

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

Workshop and IP Clinic

Message from Dean, SRIC to IIT Kharagpur research community:


A Workshop cum IP clinic has been arranged on 5th April, 2014, Saturday, during 9:15 8:45 Hrs. to 12:15 Hrs. at the Moot Court, Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law (RGSoIPL) as part of Patent Drive 2014. Four law school experts and associated persons in parallel sessions will assist in the abstract preparation. Participants are encouraged to discuss their abstract with the experts present. 

The abstract form can be downloaded from http://tinyurl.com/IITKGP-IPDrive-Abstract . The participants are advised to preregister by filling up the form http://tinyurl.com/Preregistration-5th-April for priority interaction at the IP Clinic. 

The Workshop and IP Clinic are free for IIT faculty and students. 

Your active participation is solicited to make this drive a success. 

Best regards, 

Sunando DasGupta, FNAE 
Professor of Chemical Engineering
Dean, Sponsored Research & Industrial Consultancy, 
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, 721302, India.


Opportunity to generate IP from Academic Project:

The Technology Transfer Group (TTG) of students are trying to develop awareness among student community where they can generate and protect Intellectual Property (IP) out of their exploits in academic projects. The BTP, MTP students are also encouraged to make the most out of the current patent drive. The workshop cum IP Clinic can address many of their queries resulting in greater conversion rate of project output to intellectual property.

Launch of IP Drive 2014

The new edition of Intellectual Property Drive is launched on March 12, 2014 at S. N. Bose Auditorium of IIT Kharagpur.

Dean, Sponsored Research and Industrial Consultancy (SRIC), IIT Kharagpur welcomed all and shared what has been achieved in the first edition of the drive. He attributed it to team work where student team of Technology Transfer Group (TTG) and Rajib Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law (RGSoIPL) played important role. He introduced key faculty members of this drive.

Four faculty from Law School (RGSoIPL):
Prof. S. Matilal, Prof. M. Padmavati, Prof. K. D. Raju, and Prof. T. K. Bandopadhyaya (Jt. faculty: Metallurgical and Material Engineering)

Four faculty from Science and Engineering:
Prof. Arnab Roy, Aerospace, Prof. C. R. Raj, Chemistry, Prof. S. Mukhopadhyaya, Electronics & ECE, Prof. S. Dhara, School of Medical Science & Technology (SMST) 

Prof. Goutam Saha, Professor-in-Charge, IPR & IR is coordinating  the drive with due support from Prof. K. Bibhute, Dean, RGSoIPL, MHRD IPR Chair Professor. 

Director, IIT Kharagpur in his address explained the significance of such drive in a technology institute like IIT Kharagpur and motivated the research community towards patenting. He announced that patent filing cost in India by institute researchers will be fully borne by institute. He encouraged all to achieve 100 provisional patent filing mark quicker than previous drive.

TTG students briefly explained the IP portal (www.ipportal-iitkgp.in) developed to streamline the abstract submission, evaluation and feedback through a paperless process. It is developed under the guidance of law school experts to take care of the legal / security issue. Researchers who are already aware of patent documentation can directly submit complete specification at IPR & IR Office in the usual channel.

Mr. T. Chandrasekhar, Director & Head of PFC, TIFAC, one of the guests of the occasion wished patenting to be a part of curricular project to accelerate the internalization process and emphasized on quality of the patent. Mr. Anil K Jagalur, Head, IPS of Philips Bangalore spoke about the economic side of the patenting and how industry looks at it.

After tea-break, the interactive Q & A session started and it went on for about an hour. Doubts of research faculty and students were addressed by a panel that comprised of two guest experts and two law school faculty.

Here are few videos of the event taken from SRIC IIT Kharagpur Youtube Channel http://www.youtube.com/user/IITkgpSRIC

Opening and closing of the first session (includes welcome address by Dean, SRIC): Video Link 1
Address by Director, IIT Kharagpur: Video Link 2
Address by Director and Head, PFC, TIFAC: Video Link 3
Q & A Session - Part A: Video Link 4
Q & A Session - Part B: Video Link 5
Q & A Session - Part C: Video Link 6
(Head, IPS, Philips requested to share his talk through IIT Kharagpur's internal server.)