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A

Report

on

21stPatent Clinic

organized by

Gujarat Technological University (GTU)

for

Engineering & Pharmacy students/ alumni & Faculty Members of

GTU

on

23rd

& 24th

January 2016 (Saturday& Sunday)

organized at

Gujarat Technological University

Nr.Vishwakarma Government Engineering College

Nr.Visat Three Roads, Visat - Gandhinagar Highway

Chandkheda, Ahmedabad – 382424 – Gujarat

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BACKGROUND

Under the visionary leadership of Hon’bleDr.Akshai K. Aggarwal, Vice chancellor, GTU

Innovation Council (GIC) has started its mission for Intellectual Property (IP) literacy for

faculty members and students since September 2011. Till today GIC has organised more than

70 workshops for faculty members and students, based on various themes on IPR and Patent.

To assist and motivate such students to decide whether their projects are patentable or not,

under the visionary leadership of Hon’ble Vice Chancellor of GTU, Dr. Akshai K.

Aggarwal, Gujarat Technological University has launched unique program named “Patent

Clinic”. If the projects are patentable, then drafting and filing the Provisional Patent

applications is the second objective. GTU has successfully organized two days’ workshop on

“Patent Search, Drafting & Filing” (20th Patent Clinic) at GTU Chandkheda campus,

Ahmedabad on 18th

& 19th

September 2015 (Friday and Saturday).

It’s a unique initiative started by GIC to provide all possible assistance to students and faculty

members from any branch of science or technology, to file patent for his/her innovative work

or project. Patent Clinic is a two days’ workshop in which GIC organizes seminars and

workshops on basics of IPR/Patents, Patent Prior Art Search Techniques and its importance,

Patenting System in India and hands on exercises to draft patents. The whole program is

delivered absolutely free of cost to students and faculty members of GTU.

Circular: http://files.gtu.ac.in/circulars/15SEP/03092015_03_C.pdf

Brochure: http://files.gtu.ac.in/circulars/15SEP/03092015_03_B.pdf

During each of the Patent Clinic (PC), GTU invites many IPR experts from various industries

and organizations as resource persons for Patent Search and for the procedure of filing

applications for patent. The issues of types of patent applications, requirements for

provisional patent application, explanation for various patent application forms and fees,

patent and/or literature searching and drafting of provisional patent application for each

individual innovative project were discussed at 20th

PC programme. Students were motivated

to file their inventions in form of patent application.

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Patent searching through different online databases were conducted during this programme.

Participants were given hands on training of patent searching through various free as well as

paid databases.

130 people participated in the 20th PC program, after an intensive exercise during the two

days, and about 30 participants found their projects as novel, innovative and patentable and

filed for provisional patents.

PROGRAMME & DISCUSSION

During these two days’ workshop, on Day-1 intensive Patent search was done with the help

of experts. On Day-2, whosoever's invention is novel one, drafting and filing of Provisional

application was done with help of experts. Experts and coordinators at the Patent Clinic

explained the required process of patent filing, as required by Govt. of India. Then they

helped the registrants in filling the patent forms.

More than 130 participants from different colleges all over Gujarat have actively participated

in this entire day event.

Dr. Manish A. Rachchh, Associate Professor, Centre for Pharmaceutical Studies & Drug

Delivery Technologies, Gujarat Technological University (GTU), delivered a talk on “Patent

Search using Open Source Database”. He guided students regarding how to search relevant

patents through freely available various online databases like Es@pcenet, IPO, USPTO,

Patentscope, etc. along with some examples. He explained about how to search for relevant

patent documents along with different classification systems like IPC, CPC, etc. by using

freely available patent databases.

Mr. Amit Patel, Assistant Professor-IPR, Gujarat Technological University (GTU), focused

on hand on exercise on patent search using open source databases and gave brief about

WIPO, International patent classification (IPC) and patent scope.

Further, Mr. Shailesh Jain, Project officer-IPR delivered a talk on the “Patent Search using

Paid Databases like PATSEER. He also assisted the participants in the patent search process

by using online paid databases.

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In this programme, facility of Paid databases like PATSEER was arranged for all the

participants for two days in both the sessions.

The afternoon session was conducted on individual case studies of participant’s innovative

project. The participants found out the novelty and patentability of their projects by prior art

search using open source as well as paid databases. Mr. Amit Patel, and Mr. Shailesh Jain,

helped all the participants about patent search by different tool and techniques.

On Next day, Dr. Manish A. Rachchh, started the session on topic of drafting and filing of

patent in India. He explained the types of patent application, drafting of provisional

application and key features of provisional application. Further he focused on filing of

provisional application, forms and fees to be required for filing provisional application.

The afternoon session was conducted on individual case studies of participant’s innovative

project. The participants found out the novelty and patentability of their projects by prior art

search using open source as well as paid databases. Mr. Amit Patel, and Mr. Shailesh Jain,

helped all the participants about patent search by different tool and techniques.

On Next day, Dr. Manish A. Rachchh, started the session on topic of drafting and filing of

patent in India. He explained the types of patent application, drafting of provisional

application and key features of provisional application. Further he focused on filing of

provisional application, forms and fees to be required for filling provisional application.

Further, Mr. Anil Pandey, Head IPFC, CII, Ahmedabaddelivered a session on Drafting

Patent Application with case studies. He delivered a session on details to be added in to

various patent filing forms and precautions to be taken while drafting patent application.

In the afternoon session, Mr. Vinaykumar Pandya, Patent Attorney, Ahmedabad guided the

Participant for drafting of the provisional application and filled all three forms like Form -1,

Form-2 and Form-3 on their innovative project.

In the afternoon session, participant drafted the provisional application and filled all three

forms like Form -1, Form-2 and Form-3 on their innovative project.

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Feedbacks from the participants about 21st Patent Clinic programs

Good workshop for student to file patent for their new innovative ideas.

Parth Patel, SPCE-Visnagar, Information Technology

It was a quite helpful and fruitful workshop. It included all important aspects regarding

patent and patent filing. All the speakers were well experienced and competent. Lectures

were delivered in effective chronology. Each inventor was guided separately for his

inventions patent filing. Do’s and Don’ts for patent filing were discussed with examples,

which was really helpful.

Zala Sanjay Harishchandrasinh, GEC Bhavnagar Mechanical

After attending this program, I learnt about patent and how to protect our invention through

patent.

Patel Vimal,KJIT Savli, Electrical

The seminar was really a good experience and all the basic ideas have been provided to us

for patent filing. Protection of invention is very necessary and if it is from student then it

tends to be the investment of student for the future by the invention. Hence, really a good

exposure as an UG student for me. But, now it is my duty to initiate my work as a patentee

and hope I will get every help from GTU till the end of my final application of patent.

Shivam Singh Rajput, Mahavir Swami College of Engineering & Technology Electrical

It is very helpful to us and also received new ideas from expert suggestion.

AgravatMahima, KJITSavli, Electrical

It is a useful workshop for directing the right way to secure the patents of the inventors.

NameataGadani, L. D. College of Engineering, Electronics and Communication

This workshop had cleared my doubt about patent. A very helpful step from GTU Innovation

Council.

NiravParmar. A. D Patel Institute of Technology, Thermal Engineering

Every citizen across the world has right to protect its invention with the help to doing patent

filing.This is very helpful to us & all the credit goes to GIC and GTU for organizing such a

wonderful programmer.

Moral Gor, Government Engineering College, Modasa, Electronics and

Communication Engineering

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

We would like to thankShri Anil Pandey, Head CII and Shri Vinaykumar Pandya, Patent

Attorney for their expert sessions. We would also like to acknowledge with much

appreciation the crucial role of all GTU authority and staff members, who were directly and

indirectly engaged in makingthe event successful.

Reported By:

Shailesh Jain, Project Officer-IPR, GIC

Mr. Amit Patel, Assistant Professor (IPR), GTU

Photo Edited By:

Kalpesh Mayiad, Admin, GIC

Report Edited By

Dr. Manish A. Rachchh, Associate Professor, GTU

FOR FURTHER DETAILS KINDLY CONTACT

Dr. Manish Rachchh, Mob: 99099 61894, manish.rachchh@gtu.edu.in

Mr. Amit Patel, Mob: 98988 01467, ipr_projectofficer@gtu.edu.in

Mr. Shailesh Jain, Mob: 7359298134, po_ipr@gtu.edu.in