Intellectual Property Rights: Protect and Monetize Your Ideas and Designs
Duration:
Half day
Schedule:
Sunday, 21st March 2010, Morning
Fee:
Rs. 2500
Participants: 10-30
Overview
Designers come across various ideas, but they remain
unprotected because of lack of awareness about intellectual property.
Understanding of IP can prove to be critical in creating value for these
ideas and their
subsequent monetization.
This tutorial intends to provide an overview of intellectual property, various types of intellectual property for e.g. Patent, Registered Designs, Copyright, Trademark, Trade secret. Comparison of design patents with trademark, copyright and utility patent will be discussed. Attendees will also learn the design patent (Registered Design) filing process in India and abroad.
Considering the background of attendees a few sessions are dedicated for discussing IP from a ‘Design’ standpoint. To help attendees understand the commercial importance of patents, some of the recent litigation & lawsuits in the industry will be discussed.
Towards the end attendees will be aware of how to protect fonts, icons, UI, UI elements, interactions, ornamentation and shape of objects designed by them
This tutorial will be extremely helpful for designers, innovators, budding entrepreneurs, and people with research background.
Tutor: Suyog Deshpande
Suyog is a graduate of Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. He completed his bachelors of design with focus on Interaction Design. He has presented several research papers in various national/international conferences. Suyog was invited to speak on “IP from academic and industry standpoint” at IP symposium 2008, IIT Guwahati . Topic for his final year research seminar was “Design & Intellectual Property Rights”
Suyog has worked on several projects in the domain of intellectual property litigation at iRunway, a company in the domain of Intellectual Property & Technology Consulting,
Schedule
Modules Sessions Content
Intellectual Property IP Overview What is IP
Types of IP (Patent, Trademark Copyright etc.)
Importance of IP for Corporations and Individuals
Methods to commercialize your of IP
Patents Patents Basics Requirements for a patent
Parts of a patent
Patent filing How to file a patent?
Patenting in India
USPTO/WIPO overview
PCT to file patent worldwide
Design Patents/ Registered Design How to protect your designs
What does novelty in design mean
Looks or/and Utility, how to file a design application?
IP and User Experience How to protect the UI, visual assets, UI elements, Icons, Interactions and fonts.
Interesting patent litigation suits and case studies
Assignment and Q&A session
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