Event

Date- February 02, 2023 

Venue- Golden Jubilee Hall, Panjab University, Chandigarh

DPIIT- IPR Chair, Panjab University (PU), Chandigarh in collaboration with DST-Centre for Policy Research (CPR), PU, Chandigarh organised a National Symposium on ‘The Role of Intellectual Property (IP) and Technology Transfer in Academic Sector’ on 02 Feb., 2023. The program aimed to bring together the domain experts, members of academia and key stakeholders on a common platform for understanding the importance of Intellectual Property (IP) and Tech Transfer. Various dignitaries from national level graced the event and enriched the participants with their thoughts. Prof. Kashmir Singh IPR-Chair Professor & Coordinator of DST- CPR at PU, Chandigarh welcomed the Patron Prof. Renu Vig, Honorable, Vice-Chancellor, Panjab University, Chandigarh and Chief guest of function Dr. Jatinder Kaur Arora, Executive Director, Punjab State Council for Science & Technology (PSCST), Chandigarh and Member Secretary, Punjab Biodiversity Board, Govt. of Punjab and other guests, speakers and participants . Prof. Renu Vig, Honorable, ViceChancellor, in her inaugural address, underlined the flourishing IP ecosystem in Panjab University, Chandigarh. She highlighted the innovation led technology developments in PU and highlighted all the facilities available in PU to achieve the same. Further, on the need to strengthen the bond between Industry and Academia and highlighted various success stories that are elevated to startups and how students of PU are gaining new verticals in new era. Dr. Jatinder Kaur Arora, highlighted the various initiative started by PSCST to facilitates technology developments across the state of Punjab. She mentioned the support provided to 600 MSME by PSCST across the state for the benefits of the industry culture in Punjab on clean technology. She mentioned various success stories of PSCST under ‘Mission Innovate Punjab’ to build an Innovation Ecosystem in Punjab such Jaggery production process, rural accelerator program etc. at districts level. She mentioned the Punjab’s state level S&T portal, a great innovative model to look up by all the states. She mentioned the various collaborative program going on with Panjab University, Chandigarh such S&T cluster coming up under the agies of Office of Principal Scientific Advisor (PSA), GoI. The resource persons in the symposium like Prof. Rupinder Tewari, Mentor of DST-Technology Enabling Centre (TEC) and Prof. A C Joshi from Doon University, Dehradun highlighted the need of technology readiness level (TRLs) in education institutions and its crucial role in technology commercialization. Further, worthy speakers Ms. Aprana Jain, Prof. Rupak Chakravarty and Prof. Neeraj Bala and Dr. Neeraj Kumar Singh enriched the participants with their specialized talk on IP and Tech Transfer. Around 100 participants took part in this symposium, including faculty members, researchers, and students from various institutions.

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Event

Date- November 12, 2022 (10 AM onwards)

Venue: Community Centre, Sector 25, Panjab University, Chandigarh

Technology Enabling Centre, Panjab University, chandigarh orgainsed a “Industry-Academia meet” cum CRIKC-CII Exhibition where paticipant from academic/Research Institutes got the opportunity to showcase their technologies and got the chance to be a part of panel discussion of industry people to know R&D needs of Industry. 

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Event

Date- August 24, 2022 (10 AM to 11 AM)

Venue: Online- Google Platform

DST-Centre for Policy Research, Department of Chemistry and Department of Biotechnology, Panjab University, Chandigarh in collaboration organized an invited talk by Ms. Aashrika Ahuja, Advocate & Associate Partner for Knowledgentia Consultants Corp. Legal & Intellectual Property Rights Firm on the topic ‘Overview of IPR with case laws’ on 24 August, 2022 over the google platform. Prof. of Biotechnology, Kashmir Singh, coordinator, DST-CPR, PU was the Convener of the event and Prof. of chemistry, Gurjaspreet Singh, Local Coordinator, GIAN/MHRD-UGC was the Co-convener of this event. The talk was focussed on intellectual property rights (IPRs) and its types along with need for protecting IPR with help of case studies. Speaker shared her views on implications of the effect of registration of IP and importance of IP as a source of development of economy as well as Science and technology. Ms. Aashrika threw the light on what is IPR for a layman than move on to talked about what IPR for an academic institution mean. She highlighted the role of IPR in achieving sustainable development goals (SDGs) and appraised the importance of IPR for the betterment of the environment. She stressed upon how innovation plays an important and proven to be an assets to achieve SDGs. She stated different types of IPR such as trademark, copyrights, patent and trade secrets in her talk.

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Event

Date- August 29, 2022 (11:00 A.M. to 1 P.M)

Venue: Seminar Hall, Department of Biotechnology, Sector 25, Panjab University, Chandigarh

As part of the National Intellectual Property Awareness Mission (NIPAM), launched by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India in 2021, the DST-Centre for Policy Research (CPR) and the Department of Biotechnology, Panjab University, Chandigarh, organised a national seminar on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR). The National seminar was conceived as part of the ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav‘ with the aim of increasing IP awareness amongst the faculty, research experts, and students of Panjab University, Chandigarh. Prof. Y P Verma, Registrar, PU, Chd, presided over the opening remarks and emphasised the economic and intellectual significance of IP for young researchers and students. The seminar was led by Mr. Shailendra Singh, Examiner of Patents and Designs, Indian Patent Office, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India, New Delhi, as a resource person. Mr. Singh, who is affiliated with the NIPAM mission, defended the value of intellectual property in the contemporary era and its existence in nearly every sphere of life. He shared with young students how innovations can lead to IP value and how students can file IPs and solve society’s problems. Prof. Kashmir Singh, Coordinator, DST-CPR, and Prof. D D Singh, Chairperson, Department of Biotechnology, Punjab University, Chd., urged students to investigate intellectual property when doing research and academic projects.

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Event

Date- July 29, 2022 (11:30 A.M.)

Venue: Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India, New Delhi

Descriptive meeting between Dr. Akhilesh Gupta, Sr. Advisor & Head STIP Secretariat and Policy Coordination and Programme Management (PCPM) Division, DST and Prof. Raj Kumar , Vice Chancellor of Panjab University (PU) held on 29 July, 2022 to discuss the way forward for DST-CPR, PU at PU & the future S&T collaborations.

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Date- June 08, 2022 (11:30 A.M.)

Venue: Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, New Delhi

A ‘ Roundtable meet ’ took place at DST, New Delhi, India chaired by Dr. Akhilesh Gupta, Sr. Advisor & Head STIP Secretariat and Policy Coordination and Programme Management (PCPM) Division, Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi on 08 June, 2022. DST-CPR, PU team led by Prof. Kashmir Singh, Coordinator, DST-CPR, PU appraise the activities of the center to Dr. Akhilesh Gupta and officials of DST, GOI. Recommendations were received from the chaired committee as well as from the STI fellows of DST, GoI for strengthening the role of DST-CPR, PU at National, Regional and Local level to achieve S&T goals. A need for interventions in National IPR policy was highlighted in the meeting. (more…)

Event: INTERACTIVE SESSION on Importance of IP for Academia

Date- April 29, 2022 (12:30 P.M.)

Venue: Seminar Hall, Department of Biotechnology, Panjab University, Chandigarh

 A fruitful conversation and discussion on the current ecosystem of IP in India and what measures need to be taken to strengthen it in the academic sector took place. The special address was delivered by Mr. John Cabeca, United States Intellectual Property Counselor for South Asia, United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) , US embassy , Delhi and Dr. Dinesh Sharma, Sr. IP Policy Advisor – India, USPTO, US Embassy, Delhi, who Spoke on the topic “Importance of Patents and their Quality for Innovation.”

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Event: National Symposium on ‘Significance of Science Communication and Intellectual Property’
Date- March 21, 2022 (10:00 A.M.)

Venue: Seminar Hall, Department of Biotechnology, Panjab University, Chandigarh

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Event: International Women’s Day
Date- March 8, 2022 (3:00 P.M.)

Venue: Seminar Hall, Department of Biotechnology, Panjab University, Chandigarh

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Event: A Webinar on ‘National Science Day’
Date- February 28, 2022 (10:00 A.M.)

Event Link: https://meet.google.com/umg-mbfc-ijp

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