• Name of the Department: IIC Council
• Date: 22 August 2020
• Time and duration: 3-5 PM (2 hour).
• Venue: Online
• Resource Person with affiliation : IPR Facilitator Pankaj Kumar, Innovation Ambassador, IIC- IIS (deemed to be University), Jaipur
• Topic on which activity was organised: Handling and Management of IP portfolios with a focus on Agricultural Sciences
• Number of Participants: more than 150 including faculty and students from Central Agricultural University (an agricultural university at Lamphelpat, Imphal)
• Objective of the Workshop/Seminar/Activity: To aware and train the students and faculty on Handling and Management of IP portfolios with a focus on Agricultural Sciences

The session was organised by the IIC- IISU on 22 August 2020 between 3-5 PM (2 hour). The aim of the session was to aware the participants on importance of IPR, its legislation, filing process for its registration and Handling and Management of IP portfolios with a focus on Agricultural Science. The resource person of the session was IPR Facilitator Pankaj Kumar, Innovation Ambassador, IIC- IIS (deemed to be University), Jaipur. As expected that the participants who are mostly research scholars and their supervisors, they may have issues regarding patenting and its management, during the interaction session the expectation proved right as some of them already have filed application for patents and unable to track own application and no idea how to move further. Present program help the participants how to track the filed application and how to move forward like enabling for how to decide whether do provisional or complete application and under which circumstances, whether to request optional stage for early publication and when they may request for examination of the filed application. The session ended with the interaction with the participants where the issue faced with them regarding patenting and its management was resolved by the resource person.

Outcome:
Sensitization to the participants on various IPR matters;
Brief awareness on IPR related issues;
Motivation to create and manage the IPR in view of discussed significance and the benefits of various IPR and more particularly on patent

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