Final Day : IPR Workshop : Funding Mechanism

Today marked the culmination of our 15 days 3-part IPR workshop. The first session was conducted by Mr. Madhusudan, Assistant Controller, Patent Office Chennai. He spoke about how patent office and officers view the entire process of patent application and provided their perspective.. In the presentation he described the privileges and perils of being a patent officer and provided insights through anecdotes. He later took us through the process of Opposition.

Dr Saha from DST spoke about IP issues as related to Traditional Knowledge and challenges faced in defining and defending them. He also provided information on certain DST schemes intended to help institutions planning to set up IP cells.

The day ended with a simple valedictory function.

Day 14: IPR Workshop: IP Strategy

Today the focal point of discussion moved from generic IP issues to another important aspect. How to develop right perspectives and attitudes towards this nascent i.e IPR within the mindsets of organizations: Development of IP strategy. While patents represents intellectual property and have wealth and revenue generating potential ( eg. Google's Search Algorithm) , it must be stressed that not all patents fall to this category. The prime job of IP strategy is to estimate the hidden potential of any patent process either obtaining and maintaining at an institutional level. It includes even the job of weeding out those patents that do not any "perceived" value proposition either now or in the near future.

It was told that recency of IP domain makes it difficult for IP professionals to convince institutions and its governors about its growing importance and making it an integral part of institutional life. The immediacy of IP calls for urgent measures towards this. Later deliberations centered around framing a syllabus for IP course either as an independent course or as a part of an existing management course

Day 13: IPR Workshop: Plant Variety, IC Layout

Day 13 of our IPR work shop began with a presentation by Ms. Rajani Jaiswal, Laksmikumran & Srinivas, a leading agency specializing in plant variety related IP Issues. Revising the basic definitions of IR, the presentation took us through the meaning and scope of plant related IP issues and current status of the field in India.

Ms Rachna Singh Puri, first presented a session on Semiconductor IC design and connected IP related aspects and then she presented a session on IP in IT that covered issues such as software and hardware related topics.

Later in the afternoon, both Ms Rachna Singh and Ms Aravind Vishwanath presented interesting case studies each. One was about CT and other was from the field of chemistry
The day ended with a presentation on the topic of IP in BT by Mr Aravind

Day 12: IRP workshop: Copy Right & Trade Marks

Second day of IPR was very interesting both in topics and resource persons. The pre-lunch session was about Copy Rights and it was conducted by Ms. Shiny for Mohan Associates, a firm that specialises in copyright issues and is Chennai. A Post graduate from Dr. Ambedkar Law university, Ms. Shniy covered legal and practical aspects of copy right and illustrated with a number of case studies.

The after session on trade marks was conducted by another professional Mr. Vikrant Rana of S S Rana , a Delhi Based firm specialised in Trade mark issues. Starting presentations from very basic terms, Mr. Vikrant took us through the entire process of trade mark with very relevant and illustrative examples

Day 11: IRP workshop III Phase commenced today

The third part of 3-part series IPR workshop started today at SJCE, Mysore today. The principal Dr. Sangamesh inaugurated the 5-day workshop. First day sessions were dedicated for the discussions of Patent Analyses. The resource person Aravind Vishwanath conducted a very detailed presentation covering various aspects of patent analyses process including claim mapping.