INSTITUTE
OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
Presents
Six-Month Certificate Course on
"Patent Portfolio Creation and Management"
About the Course
Technical advancements in corporate spheres have made all business areas technology driven. It is for this reason that in the current global economy scenario, the only mantra for growth in the corporate sphere seems to be an efficient investment in the knowledge economy, wherein an effective Patent portfolio creation and its management plays a crucial role and becomes an essential adjunct to the core business of a corporate and must be aligned with other core activities of the corporate.
Patent Portfolio creation, protection and commercialisation can only be successfully managed if the corporate has a team of Patent Professionals who not only understand the technology but also closely understand the other allied and extremely complex patent subject matters. This requires blending of expert knowledge from concerned Technologists and R&D professionals who need to understand patent grant procedures and other legal & commercial issues. This is precisely why Patent Experts are one of the most revered professionals in the corporate circle.
We at the Institute are totally convinced that in today's scenario a technologist or R&D professional cannot deliver on the expected lines unless he/she has an adequate knowledge on the Patent Drafting and Searching Practices, Patent Grant Procedures, and other allied patent related issues. If these professionals have adequate knowledge on patent subject matters, they would be able to better analyze and appreciate the impact of their IP's when commercialized. They would then precisely know what they intend to protect to create meaningful IP's. At the same time Legal Managers too cannot protect company's patent portfolio or contribute much in the commercialization process unless they are clear on the prevalent patent procedures and practices and have a holistic view of the patent issues. Therefore the Institute has initiated a sincere effort to introduce scientists, engineers and other domain experts to the subject matter of patents and make them appreciate and comprehensively understand the End-to-End global patent scenario. The course comes out with a dedicated purpose of aligning its prospective audience to the complete procedures and best practices relating to four verticals of Patents namely:
In order to go through the course meaningfully, the Institute has created an extensive course material, which has been reviewed and well blended by experts in the domain who have high expertise in their respective domains. Each coursework shall be supported by case studies for better appreciation and understanding of the best practices. It may also be appreciated that that the patent laws vary across the geographies and it is extremely significant to understand country specific patent laws and also the best practices that prevail in major IP sensitive geographies. This course, though focusing primarily on the Indian practices, would further highlight the major deviations of the Indian Patent Law from the practices followed by other active Patent aligned countries.
Modus-Operandi of Conducting the Course
The purpose of this course is to facilitate a comprehensive learning and understanding of Patent issues over the six-month period for working R&D professionals, for technocrat executives, and for technical graduate students. The course is conceived to take the participant through an extensive framework of understanding the multifarious issues relating to Patent Drafting, Patent Searching, Patent Grant Legalities & Procedures, and Patent Commercialization supported by extremely comprehensive case studies. At the end of the course, we expect that the target audience will be completely equipped to deal with Patent issues at their corporates or on a professional level and make technology advancement more meaningful from the commercial prospective.
The course is conducted in an online distance learning mode with printed course material prepared by IIPRD being provided to enrolled particitpants after registration and assignments/examinations being evaluated and conducted online. A candidate can register himself/herself at any time during the year to begin the course. Study material of the course material shall be given to each candidate within 20 days of his/her registration and the candidate can then eventually distribute the course work over the six months period so as to balance the work-load with the course work.
Each candidate, on registration, shall be allocated a username and a password with which the candidate shall log onto the portal of IIPRD and appear for the examination preferably in the last month of the course period, complete information of which shall be forwarded after the registration for the course. Before appearing for the exam, the candidate shall be required to furnish one assignment on each course-work in hard-copy which shall be evaluated and on obtaining 50% marks in the evaluation the candidate shall be eligible for the exam.
Each candidate shall need a minimum of 60% marks for each paper in the examination to be eligible for the certificate. For taking the examination the candidate shall be expected to log into the exam portal system with his/her username and password and undertake the exam. The exam shall be divided into four papers as discussed below in the course-work details and each paper shall be configured to test candidates on a set of objective and subjective case studies giving them a sense of practical problems faced by Patent practitioners in their respective Patent domains. On clearance of the examination, the candidate will become eligible for the certificate.
Course Contact Classes
IIPRD shall conduct One-Day contact classes for all course attendees twice a year. One such round of Contact classes shall be conducted in the first/second week of January and another round of contact classes shall be conducted in the first/second week of May. The classes shall be held on Weekends, the confirmed dates, venues and other details of which would be informed one month in advance of the classes. The contact classes shall be held at Delhi, Bangalore and Mumbai on separate days. An enrolled candidate can attend at any center that he/she desires. The students who get enrolled themselves during the months from January to May can attend the first round of contact classes in May and the students who get enrolled themselves during the months from June to December can attend the Second round of contact classes in January at the respective designated Centers.
Each contact class shall be for one complete day which will cover all the course modules and will include one practical session on each of the four course modules. The classes shall be handled by the expert Patent Attorneys of IIPRD and Khurana & Khurana, Advocates and IP Attorneys. Attendance for the contact classes is optional but strongly recommended.
Target Audience
Scientists, Engineers, Technologists, and Legal/IP Managers willing to experience and understand the complete picture of Patent Regime enabling them to practice, consult and take strategic IP decisions.
Time Frame
The course involves about 240 hours of study time over a period of Six-Months. The course can be enrolled for at any time during the year at which date the Six-month course period shall commence.
Course Coverage
The course essentially comprises of four course modules which have been prepared and designed so as to provide a detailed insight of each vertical of the patent regime and equip the participants with
necessary expertise required to execute projects relating to Patent Procedures and Practices, Patent Application Drafting, Search-Mapping-Analysis, and Patent Commercialization. For complete coverage of
each of the four courses click on the respective link below:
1. Procedures and Practices of Patent System
2. Patent Drafting Procedure and Practices
3. Patent Search-Mapping Procedure and Practices
4. Patent Commercialization, Valuation, Licensing and Litigation Practices
Course Advisor: Dr. Ramesh Shukla
Dr. Ramesh Shukla worked as a patent examiner from 1975 to 1981 in the British Patent Office in London. In 1981 he joined the European Patent Office as a patent examiner. He was appointed as a Technical Member of a Board of Appeal (Physics) in the EPO in 1989 and from 1999 to 2005 he served as a Chairman of Technical Board of Appeal (Physics) and Member of the Enlarged Board of Appeal from the European Patent Office, from where he retired
Key Differentiators of the Course
Course Fees
Course Fees for the Six Months course on "Patent Portfolio Creation and Management" for Indian Participants is Rs. 15000/- only (all inclusive) and shall be payable at the time of registration for the course.
Course Fees for the Six Months course on "Patent Portfolio Creation and Management" for Non-Indian Participants is USD $400 only (all inclusive) and shall be payable at the time of registration for the course.
Registration for the Course
The course has commenced from the 1'st March 2009 and shall allow a candidate to apply for the course at any time thereafter. IIPRD is proud to have over 150 students for the course in its very first year till March 2010.
Application forms for the course shall be available from 25'th February 2009 onwards. Students, as stated above, can apply for the course at any given time giving the desired flexibility to students to execute the course based on their schedules.
To apply for the course, the candidate would need to download and fill the application form and send it back to the Institute along with a DD/Cheque of Rs. 15000/- in favor of "Institute of Intellectual Property Research & Development"
, payable at New Delhi.
Click here to download the application form in word format.
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