IPR Workshop : Day 9 ( SDMCET, Dharwad), 09.01.2008

IPR workshop turned out to be very practical today. Mr. Yashwant, TIFAC conducted a session describing the entire process of patent searching. He explained :How different is patent search from general search? and why Keyword search is not good enough and said that free search tools for patents are not up to standard. In the following session, he took us through in a step by step manner on how to start and go on narrowing patent search process. He covered Indian, US and EP patent databases.

IPR Workshop : Day 8 ( SDMCET, Dharwad), 08.01.2008

Today IPR workshop continued by taking another important phase in patent process:Patent Prosecution- defending your patent application. The session introduced terms such as Office action, Office Action Response, prosecution history, Estoppel. Once a clear understanding was established we were taken through a number of case studies- explaining each one of them in details. Some sample exercises involving claims- how to understand them, interpret them and how to handle objections raised by patent office were discussed.

IPR Workshop : Day 7 ( SDMCET, Dharwad), 07.01.2008

Today we continued with the job of drafting a patent application and claims. We refined the draft done yesterday. We are told about different kinds of claim approaches among others such as:· Jepson Claim- Wherein improvement comprises and Markush Claim - Selected from a group consisting of A, B, and C. Claim coverage and dependent claims was also discussed. In the post-lunch session a case of a granted patent was selected and throughly discussed.

IPR Workshop : Day 6 ( SDMCET, Dharwad)

Today IPR workshop's second part of 3-part series commenced at SDM College of Engineering & Technology, Dharwad. In the inaugural function Prof. M.N.S Rao, Principal/Director made a presidential remark. Ms. Rachna Singh Puri and Mr. Vishwanathan from Xllentip are the resource persons. The session was moderated by Prof. Chelli

In the first session, Mr. Vishwanath ran a review of topics covered in the previous workshop at MSRIT, Bangalore during December 1-5, 2008. Followed by this, Ms Rachana Singh Puri and Vishwanath conducted Mock Inventor Interview. In this, a hypothetical case study of inventing wheel was discussed and inventors were subject to a series of questions. The session is expected serve as model for would be inventors on how such an interview is conducted and what transpires there. Later Ms. Rachana Singh presented a session on " Presenting the Invention" which covered the points to be included in a document describing an invention and presenting the same to others including patent attorney and patent application office. In the post-lunch session we covered the topic "Drafting the claim". Using the same case of " Invention of wheel" discussed in the morning, the class covered on how to formulate claims: main and dependent claims. A very detailed analysis of adding/removing a word/phrase into the claim and its overall implication was carried out.