Vision

To be a leading center for fostering creativity, innovation, and intellectual property (IP) excellence by encouraging the protection and commercialization of intellectual assets, contributing to the institution’s academic and technological advancement.

Mission

• To cultivate awareness and understanding of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) among students, faculty, and researchers.
• To support and guide the identification, protection, and legal filing of innovative ideas, patents, copyrights, and trademarks.
• To create a supportive ecosystem for managing and commercializing intellectual property developed within the institution.
• To promote interdisciplinary innovation and ensure the institution’s IP assets contribute meaningfully to societal and industrial needs.

Functions and Responsibilities

• To create an awareness about IPR for faculties and students of the Institution.
• To conduct workshops, seminars and training course on IPR.
• To promote better understanding of IPR.
• To encourage faculty members and students to go patentable works.
• Frame and keep updated IPR Policy of the Institution.
• Communicate the IPR Policy to the various stakeholders and the Inventors of the Institution, students in general.
• Identify prospective inventions, innovations, Service improvement ideas and Copy rights.
• Study and recommend inventions etc for feasibility of converting to patents/Copy Rights.
• To impart training on future endeavors regarding patent filing processes, procedure of IPR, screen projects, make drafts and file patents to the competing authority.
• Compensate the Inventors with due reward for encouraging inventions.
• To promote technology advancements for improved quality of life and environment protection.

Strategies

• IPR cell shall guide and help the faculty members and students of AVNIET in patentability assessment and to apply for various IPRs such as Invention(s), Designs, Integrated Circuit Layouts and other creative works.
• The faculty members /students desirous of filing a patent or for any other IPR application would be given the necessary advice and guidance by the IPR cell.
• The names of the Inventors/Authors shall be mentioned is to be signed by the Principal as forwarded by the HOD, and scrutinized by the IPR members and finally approved by the Head R&D.
• Invention Patent /Trademark and similar documents are to be treated and maintained confidentially by the IPR Cell.
• The IPR cell shall help the inventor in drafting the patent application/ or any other IPR application and filling of relevant forms.
• The draft application along with the relevant forms shall be forwarded to the concerned agency/authority by the IPR cell.
• The IPR Cell shall correspond with the authority/agency and the inventors on IP matters.
• The inventors would be required to cooperate with the IPR cell to expedite furnishing of information for timely actions since delay would mean payment of extra fee to the patent office.
• Any work sought to be filed by a faculty member and or student(s) arising out of R&D work done at AVNIET will be filed in joint names as inventors or authors while AVNIET shall be the applicant and owner of Intellectual Property (IP).
• After filing of the application for IP protection, the inventors shall inform the IPR cell of any further development, if any, in the related R & D work.
• Process Steps
• Finding the problem statement (New innovative idea for patent / Problem identification)
• Checking existent of the idea (Plagiarism / already filed)
• Getting the approval / acceptance from the IPR cell
• Implementation / Progress work (Research survey / weekly status report)
• Submission of final report to the IPR cell
• Submission the proof / acknowledgement of filing process