Transcript Creating Institutional IPR Policies Professor Prabuddha Ganguli CEO “VISION-IPR” 103 B SENATE, Lokhandwala Township, Akurli Road, Kandivli East, Mumbai 400101 Tel: 91-22-28873766 e-mail: [email protected] pganguli©2000-2005

Creating Institutional IPR Policies
Professor Prabuddha Ganguli
CEO
“VISION-IPR”
103 B SENATE, Lokhandwala Township,
Akurli Road, Kandivli East, Mumbai 400101
Tel: 91-22-28873766
e-mail: [email protected]
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IPR Enabled Knowledge Incubation and
Realisable Value of IP to Potential Value of IP
Wealth Realisation
Product Lifecycle
Competitive sustenance
Market acceptability
IPR
Marketable Products/Processes
Management
Alignment with market
Idea into product/process
Ideas Actionable
Ideas demonstrable
Idea Feasibility
Freezing of options
Position in the protected
Technology grid
idea stage ..Technology
development
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time
Value addition
to Organisation
& Market
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OUTPUT
Product Lifecycle
Managing IPR Portfolio
Monitoring IPR
Policing IPR
Enforcing IPR
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INNOVATION
PROCESS
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CONCEPTS
Fit in IPR Portfolio
Marketing tieups
Working through the
IP grid
Patents & other IPR
Filings/Registrations
Strategy for
Foreign Filings
Licensing Options
Joint Developments
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Managing Intellectual Property
MARKET
Record Maintenance & Updating IPR Information
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What do we do ?
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Formulate Institutional IPR Policy
Institute Information classification policy
How do you sign MOUs
Make all employees aware of the IPR and information
classification policies
Users at unit level made aware of issues &
responsibilities. Manual of best practices.
Set up patent information service
Structured annual training and awareness workshops
Protection … establish a continuous process
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The IP Policy Process
• Recognise the Vision and Mission of the
Institute
• What are the various activities your
institution is involved in
• Interaction of the Institution with the
outside world
• Interactions within the institution
• What is the human resource policy the
institute say vis-à-vis benefit sharing
arrangements, etc.
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The IP Policy
• Who will sign on behalf of the organisation
• Which will be the team to advise on IPR
issues…. MOUs, protection, etc.
• What will be the channel to get it going on
the floor.
• Who owns what?..
• Documentation?
• Disclosures?
• Who will pay for the protection?
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The IP Policy
• When can the Institute Name or Logo be used?
• Faculty participating in courses outside… Can
Institution name be used?
• What will be the mechanism to identify
Institutional IPR infringements or activities in the
market that are damaging to the Institute’s
reputation? Who will initiate actions?
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Motivation for IP Protection and
Management
• IPR Management helps to integrate the
institution’s innovation process with a wide
range of R&D partnerships
• Institutional IPR encourages partnership
with other developers especially with SMEs
in the innovation supply chain.
• Optimal use of extra-institutional
knowledge. Avoid duplication and manage
funs for R&D effectively
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What the Institutional IP Policy
Should Lead to…..
• Achieving the VISION and MISSION of the
Institution.
• Stimulation of creativity and inventiveness through
Framework for Competence and Knowledge
Building
• Rationalisation of investment in human and capital
resources. Avoidance of duplication of R&D
• Optimal use of “Extra-institutional” knowledge
• Integration of the Institutional Innovation Process
with a wide range of R&D and Business Partnerships
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What the Institutional IP Policy
Should Lead to…..
• Timely Protection and Management of Institutional
Knowledge Assets…
• Encouragement of partnership with other developers
especially with SMEs in the Innovation Supply
Chain..
• Earnings from innovations to pay for further research
and acquiring other technologies ( e.g. licensing and
cross-licensing)
• Recognition to inventors and enhancement of ethical
standards in the Institution
• Transparent Benefit Sharing from IP earnings .
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What the Institutional IP Policy
Should Lead to…..
• Creating and retaining leadership in the Knowledge
Market.
• Academic Freedom to operate in a global
environment.
• Guarding the Institution from taking on undue
Financial and Legal liabilities.
• Effective enforcement of Institutions IPRs
• Enhancement of Institutional Image
• Assuring Long Term Growth of the Institution .
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