IPR Cell

VISION STATEMENT:

To enable our students to maximize their potential for creating innovative technologies and the value they derive from it and integrated Intellectual Property services.

MISSION STATEMENT:

To create an ambience in which new ideas, research and scholarship flourish and from which the leaders and innovators of tomorrow emerge. 

OBJECTIVES:

• To create an awareness about IPR for faculties and students of the University

• To conduct workshops, seminars and training course on IPR

• To disseminate knowledge on patents, patent regime in India and abroad and registration aspects

• To impart training on future endeavors regarding patent filing processes

• To encourage faculty members and scholars to go for patentable works

SCOPE OF THE POLICY:

1. Patenting Club shall guide and help the faculty members and students of Francis Xavier Engineering College in patentability assessment and to apply for various IPRs such as Invention(s), Designs, Integrated                    Circuit Layouts and other creative works.

2. The faculty members/students desirous of filing a patent or for any other IPR application would be given the necessary advice and guidance by the IPR cell.

3. Invention disclosure/Patent/Trademark and similar documents are to be treated as Confidential and would be maintained confidentially by the signing of a Non-Disclosure.

A Primer on IP

Intellectual property refers to creations of the mind; such as designs, music, art, technological inventions and writing. It is the legal rights for intellectual activity undergone in the industrial, scientific, literary and artistic fields.

Types of IPR

Patents

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

Designs

'Design' means only the features of shape, configuration, pattern or ornament or composition of lines or colour 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

Trademarks

A trademark is a visual symbol which may be a word signature, name, device, label, numerals or combination of colours 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.

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. In fact, 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

Geographical indications

Geographical indications of goods are defined as that aspect of industrial property which refer 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

Plant variety protection

Protection granted for plant varieties, the rights of farmers and plant breeders and to encourage the development of new varieties of plants