Webinar on "Patent Filing Process"

Department:  Faculty of Life Sciences

Year/sem: All Students

Activity:  Webinar

Date and Time: June 04, 2022

Title: Webinar on “Patent Filing Process”

Resource person/agency and affiliation:  Dr. Gayathri Vijayakumar

                                                                  Department of Biotechnology

                                                                  Rajalakshmi Engineering College, Chennai

Brief description / remarks:The Faculty of Life Sciences in association with IPR cell of MU had organized a webinar on Patent Filing Process for the students, research scholars and faculty member of Mandsaur University on 4 June, 2022. The main objective of the webinar was to enlight the attendees about intellectual property rights and intellectual property protection including Bio-safety guidelines; Patenting of biological product and patent filling process. Prof.  (Dr.) Arunava Das, Dean and Head of Faculty of Life Sciences and coordinator IPR cell formally welcomed and introduced the guest to the participants. During the lecture, Dr. Gayathri Vijayakumar thoroughly discussed various aspects of the IPR origin, process of filling IPR and protection of individual IPR, in detail and also differentiated between intellectual property protection (IPP) and intellectual property rights (IPR). The event concluded successfully with a vote of thanks by Dr. Pratibha Chouhan, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Life Sciences.   

Outcome: The webinar provided detailed information about various IPR and IPP including Patent v/s Trade secret protection.  At the end the speaker resolved all the queries asked by the participants in very elaborative manner. The students found the lecture very interesting and informative.

No. of participants: 30

Prepared by:  Dr. Pratibha Chouhan, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Life Sciences, Mandsaur University.  

Verified and Submitted by (HOD/HOI): Prof. (Dr.) Arunava Das, Dean & Head, Faculty of Life Sciences, Mandsaur University.