NITC/TBI/IPR/13 27 Sep 2013

One Day Workshop on IPR Awareness

Technology Business Incubator of National Institute of Technology Calicut (TBI-NITC) is
organizing a one day Workshop/ Seminar on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Awareness for the
students and faculty members of NIT Calicut on Saturday, 05
th
Oct, 2013 with the sponsorship from
Department of Electronics and Information Technology, Govt. of India.
This Workshop/ Seminar would focus on:
Importance and scope of IPR in Academic Researches.
Types of Innovations patentable & how to test patentability of your innovations
procedures of patent writing & patent filing & The process of granting patent
The workshop will be useful to all those who are doing research, as patent/intellectual
property has great value in todays academia as well as industry. The day long workshop will
include a series of lectures by eminent experts in the field as follows.
Major Topics Experts
Importance & Scope of IPR in
Academic Research
Dr. R Sundaram
Chief Techno-Economic Officer, IIT Madras
Procedure of Patent writing & Patent
filing
Sri. R. S Praveen Raj
Scientist ,IP Management & Technology-
Transfer, NIIST, Trivandrum
Types of innovations Patentable & How
to test patentability of Innovations
Sri. Ajith
Asst. Controller of patent & Designs
Patent Office, Chennai
Venue: Chanakya Hall- NIT Calicut, Date: 05-10-2013, Time: 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Experts will also guide the faculty/student to file patent applications of their innovation.
There is no registration fee for the programme. Working lunch will be served.
Those who are interested to attend are requested to contact TBI Office on or before 4PM on 3
rd

October 2013, or send an e-mail in the following mail IDs to register. The detailed programme
schedule is attached
preethi@nitc.ac.in, vijitharyan@nitc.ac.in

Faculty members, Research Scholars, PG/UG students are requested to make best use of
this opportunity. Total number of participants allowed will be 100, on first come first served
basis.


Dr. Jose Mathew
Chairman, TBI & Dean (R&C)