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.
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.
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.]
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.
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)
