IPR special lecture by Dr.Padma Satish, Chief Technology Officer, IIT Bombay

An IPR Special Lecture was organised on 6th of November 2019 and Dr.Padma Satish, Chief Technology Officer, IIT Bombay delivered a lecture on "Management of IP in Academia : AN enabler for bridging the gap between innovation and commercialization". Dr. Padma shared the practices of IP filing and management in IIT Bombay. The event witnessed a great participation from the students and faculty.

* Student inventors were felicitated by awarding "certificate of student invention" for fling patent from their B.Tech/M.Tech project works. This year a total of 10 students have received the award.

* Granted patent certificates were given to the faculty inventors in this event to encourage inventors and to promote the IP generation. Four inventors/authors were given the granted patent/ registered copyright certificates.   

The lecture noted the Prof. G.G. Roy, Associate Dean SRIC, Prof. M. Padmavati, Dean RGSOIPL. Prof. C. R. Raj, PIC, IPR briefly mentioned the new initiative in the generation of quality IP in our institute.

 

The students of Technology Transfer Group given their best effort to successfully organize this lecture.

Student Inventors

In the new initiative of identifying the novel works from the B.Tech/M.Tech thesis, six project works have been selected and the patents are filed in Indian Jurisdiction in the year of 2018. IPR & IR cell congratulates all the student inventors and their supervisors.

Special Lecture on IPR

IPR News Letter: Tech Tribune Spring 2019

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Workshop on Intellectual Property Rights

IPR workshop on Innovation, Invention and Creativity with a theme of Roadmap for Patent Creation was organized in two phases on 25^th August and 8^th September 2018. 

In the first workshop a total of 82 students/researchers have participated and the second workshop had a total of 72 students/researchers. The Technology Transfer Group students managed both the workshops. The workshop started at 9.30 AM and ended at 1.15 PM.

Prof. M. Padma, Dean, RGSOIPL welcomed the participants and Prof. C.R.Raj, IPC IPR & IR briefly introduced the Institute patent filing procedures and patent portal. TTG students presented their role in the IPR activities in the campus and explained the patent abstract submission in the patent portal. 

Prof. Gouri Ashok Gargate, RGSOIPL delivered the lecture on ‘Roadmap for Patent Creation’ and taught the fundamentals of patent creation and patent filing in two sessions. A brief highlight of the talk is given below:

A patent is an exclusive right granted by the sovereign of the state to the owner of an invention to make, sell, use, etc. A patent is a territorial rights for the inventor/owner. The life time of patent is 20 years (from the date of filing) and the patent holder gets the exclusive right to exploit (licensing, assigning, commercializing, etc.) within this period.

Novelty, non-obviousness and utility are the three different patentability criteria required for filing the invention. Mathematical model, surgical procedures and software per se cannot be patented in India. It is mandatory to demonstrate the utility of the mathematical model or software using hardware. New process, compound mixture, machine and any improvement in terms of efficiency or cost reduction can be patented. The timeline for patent filing, cost involved in filing and the procedures for filing international application were highlights in the workshop.

The first page of the patent application or granted patent has name(s) of the owner, inventor and the date of filing (provisional/complete), date of publication and date of grant. Indian patent offices are located in four different cities, Kolkata (head office), Mumbai, Chennai and Delhi.

The workshop was interactive and the participants put forward several queries and the speaker and other IPR team members clarified the queries and doubts. The video of this workshop is now available with this link https://youtu.be/QEjhGda9IBk

Domain-specific IPR workshop

The latest IPR workshop for the students and researchers of CSE, EE, ECE, GSSST, SMST and CET was conducted in IIT Kharagpur on 3^rd February 2018, with distinguished patent advocate Mr. Naren Thapetta as the special guest speaker. In an interactive four hour seminar split into two halves, Mr. Thapetta talked about the various facets of software patenting, including the history of the governing laws and their development over time. He drew comparisons between the existing patent laws in India and in the USA, and through an argument-counter-argumentative approach made the case for software patents within well-defined boundaries. He further emphasized on the role of the claims as being central to the value of the patents, and through the citation of several real-world examples drew home the idea of the importance of the claim structure. The workshop was also followed by a panel discussion, where a panel consisting of the guest speaker Mr. Naren Thapetta along with Prof. Padmavati, Prof. Matilal and Prof. TK Bandyopadhyay from RGSOIPL and Prof. C.R Raj, PIC, IPR and IR Cell, and Prof. Goutam Saha, MHRD IPR Chair Professor, IIT Kharagpur encouraged and discussed upon queries from members of the audience. The discussion witnessed enthusiastic participation from the audience.

Technology Transfer "Alpha Amylase production by Bacillus amyloliquefaciens"

α-Amylase is one of the important and widely exposed industrial biocatalyst that has gained huge acclaim for its multi-faceted applications. It is of utmost importance and challenge to produce the enzyme at cheaper cost while maintaining its hyperactivity. The other desired properties should also be promising so as to compete with the existing enzymes produced by different strains from different origin. Microbial Biotechnology and Downstream Processing Lab, IIT Kharagpur under the supervision of Prof. Rintu Banerjee has transferred one technology on α-amylase. 

The USP of the enzyme is that it can be produced at cheaper cost, have very high enzyme titre and can drastically reduce the viscosity of any gelatinized starchy system.  The enzyme bears immense potential for increasing the efficiency of cereals /grains based 1G ethanol production including some other promising industrial applications.