Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Cell

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Career Point University (CPU), Kota has set up an Intellectual Property Rights Cell (IPRC) at the University to deal with the available and growing knowledge wealth in the University. The IPRC will immensely support the rapidly growing activities on IP education and management in this University.

The IPR Cell was established in the university with the aim to provide assistance to the students and alumni interested in the matters of IPR. The cell offers assistance by protecting student’s interests by making them aware of: the rights over their Intellectual Property, prior-art search report, patentability opinion, drafting patent specifications, preparing filing documents, filing application and follow-up, prosecuting the filled application by responding to office action such as FER, advisory services on various IPR, IP management. To this end, the committee organizes various capacity-building workshops and conferences on IPR and reviews the IP policy of the university. The IPR cell of the university ensures speedy and accurate identification and protection of innovations arising out of the research work carried out by the students and alumni of the university. IPR cells will facilitate the transfer of knowledge and technology from the university to industry and enhance the scope of their commercialization.

Moreover, the cell also aims to offer assistance to grass-root innovators in the local area.

As the Cell gains experience, it would also act as a think tank on policy matters related to IPR in India with special emphasis on issues relevant to the local area.

Members of IPR CELL

The main objective of an IPR Cell under academics is to integrate IPR with the education process to enhance the quality of thinking, propagate a culture of regard and respect for IPR, ensure speedy and accurate identification and protection of innovations arising out of the research work carried out in the university, facilitate the transfer of knowledge and technology from the university to industry and enhance the scope of their commercialization. The Cell also aims to offer assistance to grass-root innovators in the local area to realize the commercial benefits of their innovations

Benefits of Cell

• In contemporary times, the research is translational and transforms into services or products. IPRs help in protecting as well as commercializing inventions. If the innovations framed by college students and alumni are patented and taken

  up for commercialization by the SUPS, it will give a competitive advantage to the inventors and entrepreneurs.

• Possession of IPR makes it safer to enter it in award competitions where public disclosure of the work is required and the risk of someone stealing the idea for commercial gain exists.

• Even if the Institute would end up becoming the sole owner of students’ work, it would be proud to provide official letters giving credit to the students who are the creators of the works.

• When IPR for student work is held jointly with the institute, the legal security of the work remains in the safe custody of the institute.

• NAAC provides special significance for the institution to conduct workshops/seminars on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and Industry-Academia Innovative practices. Awards for innovation won by institutions/teachers/research scholars/students,

  start-ups incubated on-campus are explicitly commended by the institution and help in good grades by NAAC.

Strategies of Cell

• Conducting IPR outreach activities among college faculty, students, and alumni.

• Counseling on career opportunities in IPR specifically to interested students.

• Career assistance and guidance on preparation for Patent Agent Examination, Trademark Agent Examination, other IP positions, and the required skills.

• Providing assistance in scientific R&D by providing the latest publications and patents on the subject.

• Providing Patentability opinion on the invention.

• Preparation of documents for filing IPR Applications.

• Facilitating filing IPR Applications and follow-up thereafter.

Assisting department to develop and introduce course curriculum on IPR like Carrier oriented skill development (COSD) programs in IPRs, Choice based credit system (CBCS) paper on IPR, Unit(s) on IPR in the existing course curriculums. 

Conducting IPR outreach activities

Celebrating World IP Day on 26 April

Counseling on career opportunities in IPR

Career assistance and guidance on preparation for Patent Agent Examination, Trademark Agent Examination TIFAC Women Scientists scheme (1-year training on IPR), other IP positions, and the required skills

Providing assistance in scientific R&D by providing the latest publication and patents on the subject

Providing prior-art search reports for analyzing Intellectual property

Providing Patentability opinion on invention

Drafting patent specifications

Preparation of documents for filing IPR Applications

Filing IPR Applications and follow-up thereafter

Facilitating IPR services including outsourcing, and coordinating with experts like advocates, agents, etc. for various IPR needs including IPR watch, oppositions, litigations, etc.

Intellectual Properties of the University

Copyrights

Copyright is a right given by the law to creators of literary, dramatic, musical, and artistic works and producers of cinematograph films and sound recordings. It is a bundle of rights including, rights of reproduction, communication to the public, adaption, and translation of the work. There could be slight variations in the composition of the rights depending on the work.

Patents

A Patent is a statutory right for an invention granted for a limited period to the patentee by the government, in exchange for full disclosure of their invention to exclude others, from making, using, selling, or importing the patented product or process for producing that product for those purposes without his consent.

Trademarks

A trademark is a visual symbol that may be a word signature, name, device, label, numeral, or combination of colors used by one undertaking on goods or services or other articles of commerce to distinguish it from other similar goods or services originating from a different undertaking.

Designs

‘Design’ means only the features of shape, configuration, pattern or ornament or composition of lines or color or combination thereof applied to any article whether two-dimensional or three-dimensional or in both forms, by any industrial process or means, whether manual, mechanical, or chemical, separate or combined, which in the finished article appeal to and are judged solely by the eye.

Geographical indications

Geographical indications of goods are defined as that aspect of industrial property which refers to the geographical indication referring to a country or to a place situated therein as being the country or place of origin of that product.

Biotechnology Inventions: include recombinant products such as vectors, nucleotide sequences, and micro‐organisms.

Traditional Knowledge: 

The knowledge developed by the indigenous or local communities for the use of a natural resource concerning agriculture, food, medicine, etc. over some time has been passed from one generation to another traditionally.

Published Patents

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