Technology Transfer Office (TTO) in association with Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) at IIIT Hyderabad organised an IP awareness session on 8 September. The online event was attended by 140 participants.
The speaker were:
- Mr. Arjun Bala, patent attorney and a Certified Patent Valuation Analyst (CPVA) with 17 years of experience in patent prosecution. He is the founder of Metayage IP.
- Mr. Prakash Yalla, Head TTO
The topics discussed during the session were IP Awareness – what is IP and different forms of IP protection, patent filing process and lifecycle (IIITH process flow), what qualifies an invention/idea as patentable?, Invention Disclosure Form (IDF) and important things to focus on, software patents and how to go about, the typical stages of patenting : invention disclosure, patentability search, provisional filing, full filing to grant of a patent – timelines it takes and costs, Indian, UC, PCT patent law and list of IIITH patents.
Link to the recording of the session: https://iiitaphyd-my.sharepoint.com/:v:/g/personal/karthik_pasumala_iiit_ac_in/EV_gS7gCQq9DhKAR3uqD0N0BPjXXlhMtAIdoA1vjiIFjNw?e=WEWgGQ