For more detail, please contact:
Dr. C. P. Paul
Convener, Incubation Centre, RRCAT
Phone: +91 731 248 8396
Mobile: +91 94256 66596
Shri Praveen K. Agrawal
Co-convener, Incubation Centre, RRCAT
Phone: +91 731 248 2419
Mobile: +91 94258 31055
Email: incubation@rrcat.gov.in
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"One-day Workshop on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)" organized at RRCAT, Indore
One of the initiatives by Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), Government of India to contribute to "आत्मनिर्भर भारत अभियान" (Atma-Nirbhar Bharat Abiyaan) is successful transfer and translation of developed know-how into processes and products for useful for mankind. Hence, there is increasing emphasis on patent, technology transfer and incubation of the public useful technologies by DAE by adopting inclusive approach of all stakeholders, including the scientists/ engineers under DAE. Therefore, a one-day workshop was organized jointly by DAE-Intellectual Property Right Cell and Incubation Centre-RRCAT on February 3, 2023 at Convention Centre-RRCAT. The workshop was sponsored by Administrative Training Institute (ATI), DAE. The primary objective of the workshop was to create awareness about the intellectual property right (IPR) and its impact on commercialization of the developed technologies; to introduce the patent filing provisions and elaborate patent filling procedure of DAE; and to discuss and resolve the difficulties or problems faced while processing patent applications. The resource persons for the workshop were Smt. Anuradha Maheshwari, Ex-Director, Institute of Intellectual, Property Studies (IIPS) and Partner, Lex Mantis Advocates & Legal Consultants Mumbai; Shri Dani Rajiah, Member Secretary, IPR Cell, DAE; Shri. Daniel Babu, Head, Coordination & Information Management Section, Technology Transfer and Collaboration Division, BARC; and Dr. C P Paul, Convener, Incubation Centre-RRCAT.
Dr. S V Nakhe, Director RRCAT addressing to workshop participants
The workshop was inaugurated by Dr. S V Nakhe, Director RRCAT. In his inaugural address, he briefed about the importance of IPR in present context and emphasized on adopting more professional approach with an awareness about the potential commercialization of the developed know-how to develop marketable products/ processes. He praised the joint initiative by DAE-IPR Cell, ATI, and IC-RRCAT for providing an opportunity to engineers and scientists to prepare themselves with the changing departmental needs and priorities.
Smt. Anuradha Maheshwari briefing about IPR to workshop participants
The first session (of three lectures) of the workshop was conducted by Smt. Anuradha Maheshwari. She introduced the participants about the importance of IPR in the present context. She explained various IPR terms, like – Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks, Industrial Designs, Geographical Indications, Plant Varieties, Layout Designs of Integrated Circuits, Biodiversity, Undisclosed information/ trade secrets. She introduced the relevant Indian laws for IPR and explained about the basic requisite for filing a patent and jurisdiction area. The highlights of her talk were (a) Overview on Intellectual Property Rights, (b) PCT filling and International Patents, (c) Journey from Patent to Technology, (d) Conversion of the novel Research works into Patents, and (e) Benefits of Patent Search for searching novelty in technology.
Subsequently, Shri. Dani Rajiah introduced the DAE patent filing methodology and procedure. He explained how to bring long-term benefits to the DAE with patents and provisions of filling patents relevant to nuclear sector in India and abroad. He shared his experience in managing patent filling cases and briefed about various precautions that needs to be taken care during the filling procedure.
Resource persons (Left to Right): Shri Daniel Babu, Shri Rajib Das, Shri Dani Rajaih, and Dr. C P Paul during the workshop
Shri. Daniel Babu introduced and explained DAE technology transfer framework to the workshop participants. He briefed about the primary requirement for a know-how to be considered for the technology transfer. He also told the procedure being followed for the commercialization of the DAE developed knowhow into marketable product or process.
Dr. C P Paul took a session briefing DAE incubation framework and various initiatives taken at RRCAT for commercialization of developed knowhow. He also explained the support being offered by Technology Transfer Cell (TTC) and Incubation Centre (IC-RRCAT) to technology developer to translate the RRCAT developed technology into a successful product or process. He invited the participants to work with the TTC and IC-RRCAT to contribute nation building by transferring the developed know-how to Indian industries.
The workshop was attended by 82 nominated officers and 18 HBNI PhD students. It was concluded with the vote of thanks by Shri Praveen Agarwal, Co-convener, IC-RRCAT. He thanked to resource persons and participants for making it successful. He acknowledged the financial support of ATI, DAE and other RRCAT agencies (Administration, Accounts, Security, Guest House, and Convention Centre) for conducting the workshop. |
