Monday, January 5, 2009

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.


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