IPR Cell

Intellectual Property plays a significant position in providing a competitive edge to any institution. The IPR Cell of Pazhassiraja College Pulpally was established on 2020-21. Pazhassiraja College Pulpally IPR Cell to encourage, protect, administer, and commercialize intellectual property developed by the College, such as patents, copyright, and trademarks.

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Objectives

• To generate awareness about IPR for Faculties and Students of the Institution.
• To organize Workshops, Seminars, and Training programs on IPR and Patent filing processes.
• To disseminate knowledge on patents and registration methods in India and abroad.
• To promote Faculty members and Scholars towards patentable works and innovation.
• To inform the faculty on obtaining copyrights for their publications.

Types of IP

The intellectual properties can be broadly listed as follows:

• Patent: is an exclusive right granted for an innovation, which is a product or a process that provides a new way of doing something, or offers a new technical solution to a problem.
• Copyright: This is an exclusive right given to the author of the original literary, architectural, dramatic, musical, and artistic works; cinematograph films; and sound recordings.
• Trade/Servicemark: means a mark competent of being represented graphically and which is capable of distinguishing the goods or services of one person from those of others and may include the shape of goods, their packaging, and combination of colors.
• Industrial Design: means only the description of shape, configuration, pattern, ornament, or composition of lines or colors apply to any article whether in two dimensional or three dimensional or in both forms, by any industrial process or means, whether manual, mechanical, or chemical, separate or combined, which in the finished article appeal to and are judged solely by the eye; but does not include any mode or principle of construction or anything which is in substance a merely mechanical device.
• IC Layout Designs: this means a design of transistors and other circuitry elements and includes lead wires connecting such elements and expressed in any manner in a semiconductor integrated circuit.
• New Plant Variety: a plant variety that is novel, distinct, and shows uniform and stable characteristics. Biotechnology Inventions: include recombinant products such as vectors, nucleotide sequences, and micro‐organisms.
• Traditional Knowledge: The information acquired by the indigenous or local communities for the use of a natural resource concerning agriculture, food, medicine, etc. over some time and has been passed from one generation to another traditionally.
• Geographical Indications: means an indication which identifies such goods as agricultural goods, natural goods as originating or manufactured in the territory of a country or manufactured in the territory of a country or a region or locality in that territory where a given quality, reputation, or another characteristic of such goods is essentially attributable to its geographical origin and in the case where such goods are manufactured one of the activities of either the production or of processing or preparation of the goods concerned takes place in such territory, regions or locality as the case may be.