IIT- Madras has already filed as many as 226 patents through the present fiscal (as of December), together with 163 Indian patents and 63 worldwide patents purposes (together with PCT).

In a exceptional achievement, the Indian Institute of Expertise-Madras has been granted a report excessive of 300 patents within the yr 2023, doubling the variety of patents the institute obtained within the earlier yr. Moreover, the variety of worldwide patents filed, together with these granted beneath the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), additionally recorded a major enhance, rising to 105 throughout 2023 from 58 in 2022, officers mentioned.

They mentioned that IIT- Madras has already filed as many as 226 patents through the present fiscal (as of December), together with 163 Indian patents and 63 worldwide patents purposes (together with PCT).

Over 2,500 patents filed by IIT-Madras since 1975

Because the inception of the Indian Institute of Expertise (IIT)-Madras, a complete of about 2,550 mental property (IP), together with patent, purposes have been filed, each in India (1,800) and overseas (750) thus far, of which about 1,100 are registered IPs or granted patents (about 900 Indian and 200 worldwide).

“It’s a matter of pleasure for IIT-Madras that it had began submitting patent purposes as early as January 1975 (granted in Could 1977). The full variety of IP purposes filed crossed 1,000 in 2016, 2,000 in 2022 and a couple of,500 in 2023. As we march in the direction of our one centesimal yr of Independence, for Bharat to grow to be a superpower it is vitally essential to guard our concepts,”IIT-Madras Director V Kamakoti mentioned in an announcement.

IIT-Madras producing IPs in superior sciences

Kamakoti revealed that researchers at IIT-Madras are proactively producing IP in domains similar to wi-fi networks, superior supplies, robotics, additive manufacturing expertise, engine developments, assistive gadgets, superior sensor purposes, clear power, aerospace purposes, polymer materials and skinny movies, catalysts, and biomedical purposes, amongst many different rising applied sciences.

The Workplace of Industrial Consultancy and Sponsored Analysis (ICSR) at IIT-Madras coordinates the totally different elements associated to IP and expertise switch. The centre collaborates with school, researchers and college students and likewise has a devoted authorized cell.

“The institute has made it simple for inventors to entry present patent data by way of a web-based AI-based patent search instruments. This facility has helped the inventors not solely to rapidly consider the invention by themselves but additionally to enhance their concepts and claims. The emphasis can also be equally on the standard of the work being translated as IP. That is solely doable due to the collaborative effort of our inventors and the IP staff,” mentioned IIT-Madras Dean Manu Santhanam.

There are three elements of IP enabling at IIT-Madras — clarifying, simplifying and demystifying IP filling; offering help for fast submitting and follow-up with out the college dropping time or worrying about procedures; and facilitating expertise switch and monetisation of IP.

IIT-Madras Professor T Pradeep, a Padma Shri awardee, mentioned, “When my first patent was filed about 20 years in the past, there was no environment friendly mechanism to do it. I did nearly every thing, together with patent drafting submitting, responding to examination experiences, commercialisation, and so forth.”

“Through the years, we now have constructed a sturdy system for submitting and commercialisation. I’ve filed patents even inside three days utilizing this method and reached out to potential companions for commercialisation. About 25 of my IPs have been commercialised in somehow,” he added.