DST - PATENT FACILITATION PROGRAMME 1 Genesis of Patent Facilitation Programme (PFP) of DST : Department of Science & Technology (DST) Government of India has been implementing Patent Facilitation Programme (PFP) from the year of 1995. Under the Programme Department has established Patent Facilitating Cell (PFC) at Technology, Information, Forecasting Assessment Council (TIFAC) (an autonomous body of the Department) and subsequently 26 Patent Information Centres (PICs) in various states. PFC's and PIC's are engaged in creating awareness and extend assistance on protecting Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) including patent, copyright, industrial design, geographical indication etc. at state level. These PICs have also established Intellectual Property Cells in Universities (IPCU’s) of their respective states to enlarge the network. As of now 142 IPCU’s have been created in different universities of the states. In addition, they are also mandated to provide assistance to the inventors from Govt. organizations, Central & State Universities, for patent searches to find out the potential and assessment of the invention. Further technical and financial assistance in filing, prosecuting and maintaining patents on sustained basis on behalf of Government R&D Institutes and Academic Institutions. The details of the activities with regard to various forms of Intellectual Property Rights carried out under the DST-Patent Facilitation Programme (PFP) during the last 3 years (2016-17 to 2018-19) are given in two tables below: Table 1 : PFC-TIFAC's Patent Facilitation Activities 2016-2017 to 2018-2019 S. IP Year Number of Number of IP filing, No. requests received grant/registration from Universities/ Application Granted / Institution Filed Registered 1. Patents 2016-17 79 28 22 2017-18 74 21 23 2018-19 75 49 14 Total 228 98 59 2. Copyrights 2016-17 1 1 1 2017-18 0 0 0 2018-19 1 1 1 Total 2 0 2 3. Industrial 2016-17 3 3 0 designs 2017-18 0 0 3 2018-19 0 0 0 Total 3 3 3 2 Table 2 : PIC's activities, state-wise number of IP filings, grant/registration and other activities S. No a Pradesh Goa State Total IPR's Kerala Assam Punjab Odisha Sikkim Gujarat Haryana Manipur Mizoram Nagaland Rajasthan Karnataka Telangana Tamilnadu Meghalay Uttarakhand Maharashtra Chhattisgarh West Bengal West Madhya Madhya Himachal Pradesh Himachal Arunachal Pradesh Arunachal Patent filing requests 1 4 111 41 87 18 12 12 0 207 0 7 0 6 10 24 228 7 8 79 0 81 71 1013 received Patent Applications 2 1 18 10 23 18 6 11 0 2 0 2 0 0 1 5 9 0 0 4 1 1 3 115 filed 3 Patents Granted 0 2 0 0 2 2 0 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 11 1 0 0 0 0 10 34 Trademark filing 4 0 28 10 5 74 0 6 0 5 0 9 0 7 0 0 1 0 1 8 0 9 5 168 requests received Trademark Applications 5 0 10 8 5 74 0 6 0 0 0 7 0 7 0 0 1 0 0 8 0 0 1 127 filed 6 Trademarks Registered 0 8 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 8 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 28 Copyright filing 7 0 13 2 1 8 3 1 0 7 0 3 0 0 0 3 4 0 1 35 0 18 0 99 requests received Copyright Applications 8 0 5 1 in 2019 Started 0 8 3 0 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 15 0 0 0 39 filed 9 Copyrights Registered 0 3 0 0 5 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 0 0 0 27 Industrial Design filing 10 0 4 2 5 16 1 2 0 12 0 0 0 0 0 1 12 0 0 10 0 3 0 68 requests received Industrial Design 11 0 3 1 0 16 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 2 0 0 0 29 Applications filed Industrial Design 12 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 7 Filings Granted 13 Geographical 0 2 0 6 1 0 140 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 5 6 0 4 1 1 0 1 13 185 Indications filing requests received 14 Geographical Indication 0 1 0 2 1 0 140 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 13 159 Applications filed 15 Geographical 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 10 16 Indications Registered 16 New Plant Variety 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 filing requests received 17 New Plant Variety 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Applications filed 18 New Plant Variety 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Registered 19 IC Layout Designs 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 filing requests received 20 IC Layout Designs 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 Applications filed 21 IC Layout Designs 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Registered Awareness and Training by organizing IPR Camps, Workshops and Training Programmes 22 IPR camps 0 87 0 0 0 37 8 2 0 20 0 8 0 0 4 1 43 32 30 0 0 23 16 311 23 Awareness Programme 3 12 6 1 7 29 40 48 37 17 0 5 2 23 41 26 3 41 2 12 0 30 29 414 organized 24 Short term training 0 1 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 0 1 0 0 1 13 programme organized (more than 2 days) 25 No. of IPCU's created 5 1 0 0 5 8 8 15 0 10 5 4 0 6 5 7 15 10 8 13 3 8 6 142 PIC’s in the State of Tripura, Uttar Pradesh and UT Jammu & Kashmir has not provided the input, however PIC is existing there. IP FACILITATION ACTIVITIES OF DST PATENT FACILITATING CELL (CENTRE) PFC-TIFAC 5 Patent Facilitation Cell- TIFAC: DST through Patent Facilitation Cell (Centre) helps in filing and prosecuting patent and other IPR applications in India and in other countries on behalf of academic institutions and government R&D institutes. These patent and IP applications are drafted and filed through patent attorneys on the panel. The cost of filing these patents is borne by Department and patent/IP applications are filed in the name of inventing institute/s. Department conducted through patentability assessment in house for all the invention disclosure received by it. Facilitation on filing of Patents during 2016-2019 DST through Patent Facilitation Centre has assessed the patentability of about 228 new cases for filing of patents on behalf of academic and government R&D institutions. Out of which 98 cases were found suitable and have been sent to attorneys for filing of new patent applications during 2016-2019. During the above period 59 patents (include 53 Indian and 6 foreign ) were granted, the details are mentioned below: Details of the Patents granted during the year 2016-2019: Indian Patents S. No Patent No. Grant Applicant Title Date 1. 272480 04-04-2016 Department of Science An improved process for and Technology(DST), the New Delhi Alkylation of phenols 2. 272564 08-04-2016 Department of Science An improved narrow gap and Technology(DST), gas metal arc welding torch New Delhi 3. 272938 04-05-2016 University of Calcutta, Microencapsulated enzyme Kolkata biosensor for pesticide 4. 273805 29-06-2016 Indian Institute of Engineered bamboo pipes Technology Delhi made of radially split bamboo slats 5. 274256 25-07-2016 Indian Institute of A method of separation of Technology Kharagpur pectin during membrane clarification of fruit juice for productivity improvement 6 274345 21-07-2016 Mumbai University Novel mesoporous Institute of Chemical superacid catalyst Technology, Maharastra 7. 275517 08-09-2016 M. S. University of Liquid phase non-solvent Baroda, Gujarat oxidation of styrene with molecular oxygen 8. 196749 20-06-2016 Indian Institute of Process for the isolation Technology Delhi and purification of a 6 glycoprotein avidin 9. 275797 22-09-2016 University of Hyderabad, Nanoparticles of Telengana apotrasferrin/transferring, pharmaceutical composition containing them and processes for their preparation 10. 276183 04-10-2016 Indian Institute of Polution preventing Technology Delhi temperature sensitive lithographic ink composition and process for preparing the same 11 277138 11-11-2016 Indian Institute of “Fire retardant intumescent Technology, Kharagpur high density rigid polyurethane foam for specialty Applications” 12 277274 16-11-2016 University of North High liquid crystalline Bengal, West Bengal azoxy compounds and method of preparation 13 277832 01-12-2016 Panjab University, Novel Thienopyridines as Kakatiya University Pharmacologically Active &Council of Scientific & Agents Industrial Research 14 278099 23-12-2016 Indian Institute of A clean process for the Technology preparation of alkyl and aryl isothiocyanates.