Creation of Cell:

The Intellectual property rights cell has been setup in the college, to promote awareness on intellectual property and to encourage students towards creation of Intellectual property rights. PR. The major objectives of the cell are to organize technical programs to generate awareness among staff on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and thus nurturing students as research scholars, technocrats, professionals, industrialists, grass root innovators, etc. It aims to increase the Intellectual Property output of the Staff and students by facilitating and guiding people from different walks of life. The cell will provide financial, technical and legal assistance for filling patents/ copyrights and facilitates to access patent related documents.

Intellectual Property rights strive to encourage, creativity and innovation, which in turn leads to generation of Intellectual property. Protection of Intellectual Property so generated is necessary to provide security, stimulation and incentives for sustained and enhanced output. The IPR Cell is constantly striving towards strengthening linkage with organizations to leverage its registered design further.

The Objectives of IPR Cell:

• To promote academic freedom and safeguard the interests of inventor in creation and commercialization of intellectual property with legal support wherever necessary.
• To create an environment for acquiring new knowledge through innovation, develop an attitude of prudent IP management practices and promote an IPR culture compatible with the educational mission of the institute.

Constitution of the IPR Cell:

The cell is reconstituted for every academic year. For the academic year 2022-23, following members are appointed:

The Functions of IPR Cell include

• • To work in co-ordination with cell formulated.
  • To promote constant awareness about IPR.
  • To engage in conduct IP workshop/ Seminars.
  • To advice and guide students and faculty on the importance of IPR with the help of authorized patent anatomy.
  • To participate in/ arrange periodic meetings of faculty members, to conduct development programs.
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Responsibilities:

IPR Cell will be responsible for the following deliverables:

• • Increasing IP awareness among faculty, staff & students within the institute.
  • Managing and protection of the institutional IP through patenting and other IP forms.
  • To encourage faculty staff and students towards object oriented research at institute level.
  • To fill gap between industry and academic institute in terms of IP utilization and commercialization.
  • Provision of legal counsel in terms of IP issues and policy matters to institute faculty and students who involved in research.
  • To pursue for MOU’s with industries with knowledge sharing.

Types of IP:

• Patent: is an exclusive right granted for an invention, which is a product or a process that provides a new way of doing something, or offers a new technical solution to a problem.
• Copyright: is an exclusive right given to the author of the original literary, architectural, dramatic, musical and artistic works; cinematograph films; and sound recordings.
• Trade/Service mark: means a mark capable of being represented graphically and which is capable of distinguishing the goods or services of one person from those of others and may include shape of goods, their packaging and combination of colours.
• Industrial Design: means only the features of shape, configuration, pattern, ornament or composition of lines or colours applied to any article whether in 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; but does not include any mode or principle of construction or anything which is in substance a mere mechanical device.
• IC Layout Designs: means a layout of transistors and other circuitry elements and includes lead wires connecting such elements and expressed in any manner in a semiconductor integrated circuit.
• New Plant Variety: a plant variety that is novel, distinct and shows uniform and stable characteristics.
• 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 with respect to agriculture, food, medicine etc. over a period of time and has been passed from one generation to another traditionally.
• Geographical Indications: means an indication which identify such goods as agricultural goods, natural goods as originating or manufactured in the territory of a country or manufactured in the territory of a country or a region or locality in that territory where a given quality, reputation or other characteristic of such goods is essentially attributable to its geographical origin and in case where such goods are manufactured one of the activities of either the production or of processing or preparation of the goods concerned takes place in such territory, regions or locality as the case may be.

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