Intellectual Property Rights

Faculty and students of Maharshi Karve Stree Shikshan Samstha’s Cummins college of Engineering for Women, Pune are involved in various Research and Development activities. Many of these activities further give rise to the Intellectual Property (IP) in the form of Patents, Copyrights, Designs, devices / instruments, software and other inventions.

Purpose

The purpose of the IPR cell / Technology transfer cell of Cummins College, Pune is to –

• Activate, promote, encourage, facilitate and safe guard research and development activities in the areas of Engineering, sciences and humanities.
• Secure the legal interests of students, faculty and the Institute and to avoid as far as possible conflict of opposing interests.
• Create an innovation culture which will stimulate the creation and development of Intellectual Property at the institute.
• State the policies of the Institute with respect to Disclosure, Protection, Ownership and Commercialization of Intellectual Property generated with or without any external funding.
• Provide the procedures and guidelines for Securing the Intellectual Property Rights through filing of necessary applications such as Patents, Industrial Designs, Trademarks, Copyright and other available mechanisms.

Objectives

The IPR cell of the Cummins College, Pune aims to –

• Protect Intellectual Property and make it available to industry and others while providing recognition to its faculty / students and other individual inventors.
• Put forth a transparent administration system for the ownership control as well as the assignment of Intellectual Properties and sharing of the revenues generated by the intellectual properties generated and owned by the Institute.
• Frame standards for do’s and don’ts for the Institute and creators of Intellectual Property relating to inventions, discoveries and original works originating from the Institute.
• Make the Institute a prime academic research institution enabling it to make use of developed IP for the maximum possible benefit of the creators as well as the Institute.
• Assisting the Institute with respect to Industry funded projects and related arrangements with a focus on Intellectual Property Rights

For all this, apart from “Innovation and Startup Policy” (based on NISP), Institute has it’s own well defined IPR policy.

The policy document provides the guidelines and states the policies of the Institute with respect to Disclosure, Protection, Ownership and Licensing of Intellectual Property generated with or without any external funding. It also provides the guidelines relating to the procedure of filing patent applications via the Cummins College of Engineering for Women, Pune IP cell.

Cummins College IPR Policy