Seminar on "Tools and Techniques for Patent Filing"
20th February 2023
Institution’s Innovation Council (IIC), Ministry of Education (MoE), Dronacharya Group of Institutions, Greater Noida conducted a seminar on “Tools and Techniques for Patent Filing” on 20th February, 2023. 43 students attended the seminar. The speaker of the seminar was Prof. Sanghamitra V. Arora (Head, RDC).
She started the session by explaining about Patents. She explained that a patent is an exclusive right for an invention which could be in the form of product, process or idea and exclude others from using, making or selling it. To get this right, information pertaining to the invention is required to be filed through an application. Moving further, she discussed various tools and techniques available for Patent filing. Patent Filing Process was discussed in detail.
- She illuminated the students that the Inventors can file the patent by themselves or can take the help of any patent filing agency or professional.
- Then, search if the invention is patentable or not.
- The next step in the process of Patent filing includes the drafting of the Patent application. If the invention is in testing stage only, she guided all to go for Provisional Patent Application.
- After drafting, the applicant is required to submit the application along with the requisite fee and also told about the link to be used for same.
- Afterwards, she told about publishing of the patent by the Indian Patent Office (IPO) upon fulfilling certain criteria. The time period for publishing may vary from 1 month to 18 months and after.
- Once the examiner from IPO finds no objection in the patent application, the patent is then published in the official patent gazette.
She also highlighted KAPILA which is one such platform for receiving grant for the patent thus approved by the IPO. She also told about Indian Patent Act 1970 and briefed about its scope.
The seminar was informative and helped the students understand the techniques involved in Patent Filing.