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Accredited by NBA(CSE, ECE, EEE, MECH)
AICTE Sponsored Margdarshan Mentor Institution
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Recognised Under Section 2(f) & 12(B) of the UGC Act,1956
103/G2, Bypass Road, Vannarpettai, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, India - 627003.
On 31st May 2022 a “Workshop on IPR relating to Design Patent” was organized by Entrepreneurship Development Cell and Institution’s Innovation Cell in association with Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at 3.00-4.00 p.m. Dr. A. Andrew Roobert, Assistant Professor/ECE, FXEC and the professor in-charge of Advanced Electronic System Design Pre-Incubation Centre was the guest speaker.
The Guest speaker explained the concepts relating to Intellectual Property Rights and why the inventor must protect the right to use the invention/innovation. As our college is having number of patents the resource person explained few patents submitted by the staff members and the students working in the incubation centres.
The resource person explained different types of IPR namely Patent, Utility Models, Layout Design of Circuits, New Plant Varieties, Trademarks and Copyrights. After explaining the types of patents he started explaining the details regarding the design patent. He highlighted the provisions relating to the Design Act, 2000 and the amendment rules 2021 design patent in the IPR Act.
He also discussed about who can file the design, Jurisdiction for filing the design application, requirements for design application filing, Patent legislations. These valuable points were very useful for the students to publish their invention and file the patent according to the Intellectual Property Rights. 41 students from EEE department and 2 staff members participated in the program and the event was coordinated by Ms.M.Krithika AP/EEE and Mr.N.V.Selvam, AP/EEE. We have received good feedback from the participants about the program and all participants were benefited.
