Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Policy

1. General

The Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) policy provides a transparent framework for the ownership, control, and transfer of IPRs of IPs that are partially or fully generated and owned by Panipat Institute of Engineering and Technology, Samalkha, hereinafter referred to as SSCET. The policy is to support and protect the invention or creation of the original research work of students, faculty, and other staff members of SSCET. The policy is designed in a way to develop, provide, and sustain an encouraging as well as potentially competitive environment within the SSCET campus and to foster collaborative research with other Govt. and/ or private universities, institutions, organizations, associations, etc.

2. Objectives

The IPR policy of SSCET is focused on protecting the outcomes of scientific and innovative efforts of the researchers including faculty members, students, and other staff members of SSCET alone or in collaboration with other Govt. and/or private agencies, organizations, industries, etc. in creating the potential IPs. Furthermore, the IPR cell shall organize awareness sessions to sensitize the faculty, students, and other staff members of SSCET about intellectual properties and the respective rights to protect the same.

3. Applicability

IPP policy applies to all faculty members, students, and staff of SSCET involved in the invention/ research and creation of any kind of intellectual property such as patent, copyright, trademark, design, etc. The application(s) of any IP generated must be filed through the IPR Cell.

4. Ownership and Cost of Filing and Protection

• All IPR obtained on any IP generated as a result of in-house research/ invention carried out by faculty members, scholars, students, or any other person affiliated with SSCET by ‘utilizing the institute’s resources’ shall be owned by SSCET. The institute will meet the entire cost of filing and protecting the IPR subject to a maximum five number of inventors involved. The IP shall be owned by SSCET with the researcher(s) name(s) as the inventor(s) and the institute will be the applicant.The expression ‘utilizing the institute’s resources’ includes the use of duty hours, funds, laboratories, other premises, equipment, etc.
• In a case, IP is created as a result of research/ invention carried out ‘without utilizing the institute’s resources’, then the IPR shall be owned by the inventor and the entire cost for filing and protecting the IPR will be borne by the inventor.
• The IP generated as a result of the research/ invention carried out in case of ‘sponsored projects’, funded by external agencies such as industries, Govt. or Non-Govt. organizations, etc., shall be owned as per the mutual agreement between the institute and funding agencies or as per the guidelines of funding agencies enshrined in the sanction or approval letter. The entire cost of filing and protecting the IP will be borne accordingly. If no such clause is contained in the agreement or, for that matter, in the sanction letter, or the funding agencies do not come forward to file the IPR, then the following clause shall be applicable with respect to the cost of filing and protecting the IP. The institute shall apply for obtaining IPR with absolute ownership, and the entire cost of filing and protecting the IPR will be borne by the institute, subject to a maximum five number of inventors from SSCET.
• In case, IP is generated as a result of ‘collaborative research/ invention’, the IPR shall be owned jointly by SSCET and the collaborating organization. The collaborating organization shall be requested to equally bear the cost of filing and protecting the IPR with the researcher(s) name(s) as the inventor(s). However, if the collaborating institute does not come forward to file the IPR, SSCET shall file the IPR with absolute ownership and the name(s) of the inventor(s) of the collaborating institute shall be retained in the IPR but the revenue or royalty (if any) earned in this case via this IP will not be shared with the collaborating institute or its inventors involved in this research/ invention. In such a case, SSCET will bear all costs of filing and protecting the IPR, subject to a maximum four number of inventors from SSCET. In case of joint/ collaborative research/ invention with other organizations, the faculty, staff, students, or any other member of SSCET need to get prior permission from the competent authority to commence the research project.
• Furthermore, if any faculty, staff, student, or any other member of SSCET engaged in the invention or research carried out in another institute, only by sharing his/ her intellect (without utilizing the SSCET’s resources) which creates an IP but the other institute or faculty, staff, students involved do not come forward to file the IPR then SSCET shall file the IPR with absolute ownership. In such a case, the name(s) of the inventor(s) of other institutes shall be retained in the IPR but the revenue or royalty (if any) earned via this IP will not be shared and SSCET will bear the entire cost of filing and protecting the IP subject to a limit of maximum six number of inventors involved and at least half or a greater number of inventors must belong to SSCET. In such a case, the inventor of SSCET needs to obtain and submit a ‘No Objection Certificate’ from the inventor of other institutes involved in the research/ invention to the IPR cell, before applying for IPR. The inventor shall provide the necessary inputs, data, and information about the invention/ research, for filing an IPR application, to the institution.

5. Commercialization

The institute, SSCET, shall attempt to market the IP based on the market potential for the IP to which it has ownership or joint ownership. The creator(s) are expected to support this process. If the institute is not able to or does not intend to commercialize the IP in a reasonable time frame (mutually decided), the inventor(s) may approach the IPR cell for reassignment of the IPRs. However, the inventor(s) need to reimburse the patenting and other fees (if any received) to the institute in lieu of the same. Furthermore, the inventor(s) with a mutual agreement with SSCET can commercialize the IP and also help in technology transfer.

6. Revenue / Royalty Sharing

Shared equally among inventors unless otherwise agreed. For jointly owned IP, revenue sharing is per agreement. Students are not entitled to profits if the work is part of academic requirements.

7. Rewards

• Patent granted: ₹6,000 (1–2 SSCET inventors), ₹8,000 (>2 SSCET inventors)
• Design patents not eligible for rewards
• Additional rewards for commercialization based on market potential