Seminar on Intellectual Property Strategy and Patent Drafting

A seminar on “Intellectual Property Strategy and Patent Drafting” was arranged by the IPR cell and ED cell for the faculty members of JIT on 16.12.2019 (FN). The invited speaker was Mr.
Muruganantham. S, President and Patent Attorney, Metayage IP Strategy Consulting LLP, PSG step, Coimbatore.

The highlights of his presentation was on
 The importance of Intelluctual property strategy and the different types of IPR like
trademark, patent, copyright, design patents, trade secret etc.
 The difference between copyright and patent and how programming could be patented
 The importance of patent for student community and startups
 The concept of prior art and the process of filing patents
 The renewal of the patents and its rules and regulations was emphasized