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GTU INNOVATION COUNCIL

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GTU Innovation Council organized Two days workshop on “Patenting in Engineering” on 24th and 25th September 2011 at Science City, Ahmadabad

Gujarat Technological University organized two days workshop on “Patenting in Engineering”

at Science city, Ahmadabad. The inaugural function was held on Saturday, 24th

September

2011. To participate in this workshop, 150 faculty members from more than 50 Engineering

colleges affiliated to GTU across the state had registered for the Workshop.

The inaugural session was begin with Saraswativandana, lamp lighting. Dr G.P. Vadodaria,

Registrar of GTU delivered the welcome speech. He emphasized that GTU has set target to file

at least 2,000 patents by the end of June-2012 and to do so GTU has number of plans to sensitize

all research faculty members in the field of IPR and Patent. Dr. Manish A. Rachchh, the Program

Coordinator gave an introductory speech and explained the objectives of the workshop. Dr.

Narottam Sahu, Senior Scientist, Science City appreciated the efforts of GTU for spreading

awareness about IPR among the faculty members and gave an assurance on behalf of GUJCOST

to provide all kind of support in future activities too. Guest of Honor, Prof. M. N. Patel

appreciated the efforts of GTU for arranging such kind of innovative workshop for the faculty

members and also urged that Professors should be proficient in their subject and have to strive

hard to make their class live and interactive.

The Honourable Vice chancellor of GTU, Dr. Akshai Aggarwal explained in detail about the

GTU objectives to promote and nurture the innovation at institute level so that each and every

student of GTU can be employable. He mentioned that IPR and Patents will not generate only

prestige to individual scientist, but it will also generate revenue for the researchers. He

mentioned that, GTU had organized such kind of workshop successfully for Pharmacy faculty on

3rd

and 4th of September 2011. While discussing the Final Year projects of students, he said that

GTU Innovation Council had linked up nearly 50,000 students of BE and Diploma Engg with

industries. The students had finalized Industry Defined Project (IDPs) for their Final Year

projects. The students were supposed to develop an innovative product or process, anchored in

the needs of the industries or our society. He said that when the students were able to crack the





problems and were able to find a solution, the need for protection of IPR for both the industry

and the student would arise. Hence the engineering faculty must be trained to understand the

concept of IPR and Patenting, so that Patent application may be filed by June 2012. He

highlighted the agenda of GTU Innovation Council to form virtual Sectoral Innovation Councils

in different domains of engineering. He also discussed about the plans of GTU for establishing

an IPR cell by February-2012. The cell will develop an equitable and fair policy for IPR at the

University level and will facilitate the associated SMEs, the faculty and the research students to

draft and file their patent applications. At the end of the inaugural program, Mr. Hiranmay

Mahanta gave a vote of thanks.

The scientific sessions of 24th

September 2011 began with Dr. Manish Rachchh, Head (PG), S. J.

Thakkar Pharmacy College, Rajkot. He gave an idea about different forms of IPR and how

academic researcher could go ahead to protect their IP. Mr. Padmin Buch, Director, GITCO,

Ahmedabad discussed the patent scenario in engineering industries. Prof. Manish Kumar,

Associate Professor, Department of Production and Industrial Engineering, JNV University,

Jodhpur discussed Patentable Subject Matter in Engineering. Mr. Kirti Patel, Chief Executive

Officer, IPCalculus, Surat informed about the IPR perspective in ICT Industry. Mr. Anil Pandey,

Honorary Consultant IPR, NIF and SRISTI, Ahmedabad gave a learned talk on creativity at

grassroot level and IP protection done by such grassroot innovators with the help of NIF.

On Sunday, 25th

September 2011, the scientific sessions began with the speech of Dr. Manish

Rachchh, who discussed about Drafting & Filing of Patents in India. He described the different

embodiments in any patent application followed by different types of filing procedure available

including e-filing. Miss Nilam Gadani, Patent Attorney, H. K. Acharya & Company, Ahmedabad

took a session on practical aspects of claim drafting with examples of engineering invention. Dr.

Kishore Sreenivasan, Program Director, GIIP Bangalore gave a talk on objectives and different

types of Patent Searches & Patent Landscape methodology. Ms. Yogita Parab, Partner,

Patonomics Group, Mumbai discussed about Objectivity & Reliability in Quality in Patent Life-

Cycle. She illustrated how to go ahead in R&D work, so that the chances of generating strong





patents can be increased. Lastly Mr. Dinesh Jotwani, President, NBAI, Pune gave a practical

overview of how to commercialize the patent and generate revenue out of it and demonstrated

the way from Saraswati to Laxmi.

On both the days after the scientific sessions, panel discussions were held in which all the

participants actively participated. On the second day, a self evaluation quiz was organized for all

the participants to check their level of understanding and the faculty who secured highest mark

was given a gift by GTU.

At the end of the workshop at the valedictory session, Dr. Manish A. Rachchh summarized the

proceedings of the two days of workshop. Dr. G.P. Vadodaria, Registrar of GTU expressed the

hope that faculties would have taken full advantage of all the resource persons. Three

participating faculties gave their feed back and mentioned that this was a unique program. They

congratulated GTU and the organizing committee for their wonderful event management. They

also assured Dr. Vadodaria that, they would try to file maximum number of Patents from their

academic research projects. Mr. Hiranmay Mahanta gave vote of thanks and emphasized that

each faculty member had to work as a “Change maker” on behalf of GTU Innovation Council, so

that the whole of the ecosystem could be revolutionized. The Honourable. Dr. Akshai Aggarwal

congratulated Prof. Alams Juneja, Ms. Krutika Desai and Mr. Himanshu Raval of GTU for their

untiring efforts to make this event a grand success. He also appreciated the efforts of program

coordinator Dr. Manish A. Rachchh and his team which includes Dr. Rina Gokani, Associate

professor as well as Mr. Bipin Patel, Mr. Jay Raja and Mr. Hardik Ghelani who were M. Pharm

students of S. J. Thakkar Pharmacy College, Rajkot.





Inauguration session of the workshop:

(L to R)Dr. Narottam Sahu, Dr. G. P.

Vadodaria, Prof. M. N. Patel, Honb.

Vice Chancellor Dr. Akshai Aggarwal,

Dr. Manish Rachchh and Mr.

Hiranmay Mahanta

Dr. G. P. Vadodaria, Registrar of GTU

giving a Welcome speech to all the

participants came from different part

of the state.

Introductory speech by Dr. Manish

Rachchh, Program coordinator & Head

(P.G.), S.J. Thakkar Pharmacy

College, Rajkot

Speech by invited guest Dr. Narrotam

Sahu, Senior Scientist, Science city and

Mission director GUJCOST,

Gandhinagar





Speech by Guest of Honor Prof. M. N.

Patel, Member Secretary of ACPC and

Principal of L. D. College of

Engineering, Ahmedabad

Presidential speech by Honb. Dr. Akshai

Aggarwal explaining the vision of GTU

for fostering innovation at academic

level, which can reach upto the grass

root level

Mr. Hiranmaya Mahanta giving vote

of thanks and explain the mission and

objectives of GTU Innovation council.

Participating Faculty at a glance. More

than 120 faculty members from more

than 50 Engineering colleges gathered

in this workshop





Dr. Manish Rachchh, Head (PG), S. J.

Thakkar Pharmacy College, Rajkot

gave the talk on “IPR-An overview”

Mr. PadminBuch, Director, GITCO,

Ahmedabad had discussed the “Patent

scenario in Engineering

Prof. Manish kumar, Associate

Professor, JNV University, Jodhpur

discussed about “Patentable Subject

Matters in Engineering”

Mr. Kirti Patel, Chief Executive

Officer IPCalculus, Surat had given

presentation on “IPR perspective in

ICT Industry”





Mr. Anil Pandey, Honorary Consultant

for IPR, NIF and SRISTI, Ahmedabad

had given an idea about “Creativity at

grassroot level” and IP protection done

by such grassroot innovators with help

of NIF

Brain churning Panel Discussion at

the end of 1st

day of scientific session.

(L to R ): Mr. Kirti Patel, Dr. Manish

Rachchh, Prof. Manish Kumar, Mr.

Anil Pandey

Miss NilamGadani, Patent Attorney,

H. K. Acharya & Company,

Ahmedabad had taken a session on

practical aspects of “Claim drafting”

with examples of engineering

Dr. Kishore Sreenivasan, Program

Director, GIIP, Bangalore had given

talk on types of “Patent Searche &

Patent Landscape methodology”





Ms. Yogita Parab, Partner,

Patonomics Group, Mumbai had

discussed about ”Objectivity &

Reliability in Quality in Patent Life-

Cycle”

Mr. Dinesh Jotwani, President, NBAI,

Pune had given a practical overview

“How to commercialize the patent and

generate revenue”

Participants actively doing interaction

with resource persons on Day 2 of the

workshop during panel discussion. In

photo Prof. Bipin Pandit, LE College,

Morbi interacting with resource

persons.

Dr. Rina Gokani, Associate Professor

and Joint coordinator of the workshop

did anchoring on both the days and

inviting participating faculty to give

feed back during Valedictory session





One of the participants, Dr. Krishna

Joshi from VVP Engineering College,

Rajkot giving feed back during

Valedictory session on Day-2

Dr. G. P. Vadodaria, Registrar of GTU

giving valedictory speech on Day 2 of the

workshop and motivate faculty to contribute

to achieve the bench mark laid down by

GTU to file 2,000 patents by June-2012

Mr. Hiranmay Mahanta giving vote of

thanks at the end of Valedictory session.

He emphasized that each participating

faculty member will have to act as

“Change Maker” by fostering Innovation

Pleasant memory of workshop in terms of

group photo of participating faculty members

on Day 2 with Dr. G. P. Vadodaria, Registrar

of GTU along with resource persons

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