Intellectual Property Rights & Industrial Relation (IPR & IR) is an activity of Sponsored Research & Industrial Consultancy (SRIC), IIT Kharagpur facilitating protection of its IP and acquisition of the same by Industry.
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.
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.
IPR
workshop on Innovation, Invention and Creativity with a theme of Roadmap for
Patent Creation was organized in two phases on 25th August and 8th
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
The latest IPR workshop for the students and researchers of CSE, EE,
ECE, GSSST, SMST and CET was conducted in IIT Kharagpur on 3rd 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.
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.
The Intellectual Property Rights Workshop on ‘How Intellectual
Property Impacts Life’ was organized on 19th August 2017 in
Maitrayee Auditorium, IIT Kharagpur by IPR & IR Cell, SRIC, MHRD IPR Chair
and RGSoIPL, IIT Kharagpur. The workshop was attended by a total of 92 students
that includes 52 inventors/research students and 40 students from RGSoIPL and several
faculty members from RGSoIPL and other departments. The workshop saw some great
speakers from different spheres of Intellectual Property ranging from High
Court Judges, Professors and a Patent Attorney.
Among the guests who attended
the event were Prof. Sudhir Kumar Barai, Dean, Undergraduate Studies, IIT
Kharagpur and Prof. Goutam Saha, MHRD IPR Chair Professor, IIT Kharagpur. The
first segment of the workshop involved an inaugural address by Hon’ble Justice
Ravindra Bhat, Judge, High Court of Delhi, in which the participants were given
an overview of what the situation of IP is, presently. He enlightens the
audience by sharing his own experiences in intellectual property. The first
session, themed, ‘Getting Patent – The Paradigm of Computer, Electrical,
Electronics and Telecommunication’,
which was chaired by Prof. Khushal Vibhute,
Head, RGSOIPL. The two speakers, Prof. V.C. Vivekanandan, Dean, School of Law,
Bennett University and Patent Attorney Mr. Vineet Rohilla, Remfry and Sagar of
the session gave a deep insight not
only to inventors but also to the Law
students. The case study by Mr. Vineet Rohilla highlighted the recent revised
CRI
guidelines of Indian Patent Office to the inventors. The second session centered
on the theme of ‘Intellectual Property and Human Rights’, was chaired by
Hon’ble Justice Ravindra Bhat, Judge, High Court of Delhi.
The Hon’ble Justice
Aniruddha Bose, Judge, High Court of Calcutta spoke on how intellectual
property impacts the quality of life.
Prof. Imtiaz Gulam Ahmed, Head, School of
Law, Sikkim University shared his thoughts on Intellectual Property and human
rights. Both speakers highlighted the
importance of balancing the moral and economic rights of inventors with the
larger interest of the society.
The workshop ended with Prof. C.R. Raj,
Professor in Charge, IPR & IR Cell, IIT Kharagpur, giving a vote of thanks.
The members of Technology Transfer Group made necessary arrangements for
successfully conducting the workshop.
On 26th April 2017, Indian Institute of Technology
has celebrated the World IP Day by taking different initiatives to promote
awareness on the importance of Intellectual Property creation and protection.
In spite of being engaged in their mid-semester examination during
this time, the students of Technology Transfer Group have prepared IP awareness
materials to make this event successful. Posters and Banners were displayed in
the campus to create awareness on Intellectual Property and to encourage
students and researches to impact the lives with their innovation.
The IP day celebration started with the WIPO theme of “Innovation - improving lives” in the
Sponsored Research and Industrial Consultancy conference room where Prof.
Pallab Dasgupta (Dean, SRIC), Prof. Subhasish Tripathy, Prof. Sudhir Kumar
Barai (previous PICs, IPR & IR), Prof. Goutam Saha (MHRD IPR Chair
Professor) and Prof. C. R. Raj (present PIC, IPR & IR) and the moderators
of Patent Review Committee of the Institute were present.
The importance of IP generation and possible commercial
exploitation were discussed and all the invitees have shared their experiences
and opinions to promote IP generation and protection in the Institute.
The programme ended in congratulating the inventors whose patent (National and International) has been granted recently. The inventors were given a copy of the granted Patent.The Moderators of the Patent Review Committee were appreciated with a memento and a Certificate of Appreciation for their insightful evaluation of patent applications.
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.
