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)

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.