Patent Drive 2016 was formally launched on 29th Sept., 2016 evening. The function was held at S. N. Bose Auditorium, IIT Kharagpur. The Technology Transfer Group (TTG) students were in charge of the event#. IPR experts and Domain experts who play an important role in handholding the inventors from invention disclosure to patent filing were backing up the young team. Director, IIT Kharagpur who could not be present due to an emergency meeting at Delhi sent good wishes to the Patent Drive team for the launch event.
The program started at 6:30 PM. After TTG welcome, Dean (Continuing Education) addressed the audience on behalf of the institute explaining the importance of IP protection, commercialization and how IP contributes to overall assessment of the institute. Following this, the TTG team explained the in-house Patent Portal (Link) to the inventors. They showed new feature of the portal for this edition of the drive that facilitates speedier review. It included an innovative approach to help patent search and that feature is being further improved. The modified Invention Disclosure Form / Abstract can be downloaded from here (PDF, Word). The team explained the new Geographical Indications (G.I.) Portal of the institute in connection with newly launched G.I. Drive of last convocation day (GI Portal Link).
The major attraction of the evening was the guest-talk from Prof. Ganesh S Hingmire, Chairman, Great Mission Group Consultancy, Pune. He is the winner of National IP Award in G.I. category for two consecutive years 2015, 2016. He came with his experience of registering 19 G.I.s out of which 17 are Agri. GIs. His work on another 9 Agri. GI applications is waiting for registration. He had conducted hundreds of small group meetings of farmers to create awareness on GI and its benefits and 12 awareness seminars for the Office of the Controller of Patents. He held the audience captive by explaining how G.I. gives community the IP right in contrast to Patent right being enjoyed by an individual and how G.I. can help propel economic growth for the community.
After a short tea-break at 8:00 PM, the Q & A session started at 8:15 PM. While the initial questions were related to G.I., soon it widened to consider issues related to Patenting and the special aspects of patent drive, commercialization benefit sharing with inventors etc. The session ended at 9:00 PM when there were still queries which the Patent Drive team are to take up offline, on a one to one basis.
We share two videos of this launch function, the address by Prof. Hingmire and the Q & A session for the benefit of the inventors. Some photos from the launch function follow.
#Patent Drive 2016 launch is supported by MHRD IPR Chair Professor grant.
The program started at 6:30 PM. After TTG welcome, Dean (Continuing Education) addressed the audience on behalf of the institute explaining the importance of IP protection, commercialization and how IP contributes to overall assessment of the institute. Following this, the TTG team explained the in-house Patent Portal (Link) to the inventors. They showed new feature of the portal for this edition of the drive that facilitates speedier review. It included an innovative approach to help patent search and that feature is being further improved. The modified Invention Disclosure Form / Abstract can be downloaded from here (PDF, Word). The team explained the new Geographical Indications (G.I.) Portal of the institute in connection with newly launched G.I. Drive of last convocation day (GI Portal Link).
The major attraction of the evening was the guest-talk from Prof. Ganesh S Hingmire, Chairman, Great Mission Group Consultancy, Pune. He is the winner of National IP Award in G.I. category for two consecutive years 2015, 2016. He came with his experience of registering 19 G.I.s out of which 17 are Agri. GIs. His work on another 9 Agri. GI applications is waiting for registration. He had conducted hundreds of small group meetings of farmers to create awareness on GI and its benefits and 12 awareness seminars for the Office of the Controller of Patents. He held the audience captive by explaining how G.I. gives community the IP right in contrast to Patent right being enjoyed by an individual and how G.I. can help propel economic growth for the community.
After a short tea-break at 8:00 PM, the Q & A session started at 8:15 PM. While the initial questions were related to G.I., soon it widened to consider issues related to Patenting and the special aspects of patent drive, commercialization benefit sharing with inventors etc. The session ended at 9:00 PM when there were still queries which the Patent Drive team are to take up offline, on a one to one basis.
We share two videos of this launch function, the address by Prof. Hingmire and the Q & A session for the benefit of the inventors. Some photos from the launch function follow.
#Patent Drive 2016 launch is supported by MHRD IPR Chair Professor grant.
