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Enhancing IP/Patent Quantity/Quality
IP Audit/Mining as a Tool
By
Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala
BananaIP - www.bananaip.com
Books: www.kalyankankanala.com
Blog: www.bananaip.com/sinapse-blog
Just One Layer
Protection and Risk Mitigation
IP can Add Value, provided an
organization wants it to add value
BUSINESS
IP
OTHERS
Increasing IP/Patent Numbers
• What works?
• Awareness/Training• Culture/Hygiene• Policy/Process• Incentive System• IP Audit/Mining
Audits so far--107
Large Companies – 36 SMEs – 62 Educational/Research
Institutes - 9
Results
MNC 1
Savvy IP filer well known for its products in heating, ventilation and air conditioning
Uses IP very efficiently and effectively in business
Indian arm - Inventive work, but IP productivity was low
Performed an IP Audit
Example 1
Uncovered - 208 potential inventions Filed – 56
Amended the policy to smoothen out rough edges
Invention disclosures increased by two hundred percent
Example 1
MNC 2 Large electronics manufacturing
company Was seeking investment and keen on
showing IP to investors Performed IP Audit Potential inventions - 89 Patents filed - 1 Policy/Process - Does not exist even after
audit
Example 2
Example 3
SMEs - UNIDO ClusterIP Audits for Machine tools and Plastics industries
PatentsDesigns
TrademarksCopyrights
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
Protected
Protectable
Protected
Protectable
Example 4
Premier Educational/Research Institution was seeking to sensitize professors, change culture, improve filings and increase commercialization proceeds
Chose IP Audit as a tool Potential IP - 40 Filed - 0 Policy/Process recommendations -
Implementing now after 7 long years
Example 5
• A large food products company• Had more than 1200 trade marks• Fighting several litigations• Wanted to put its files in order• An Audit was performed• More than 600 files corrected• Process set up for efficient management
IP Audit as a Tool
IP Inventory
Mining
Best
Practices
PIRATES OF BOLLYWOODA Legal Thriller around film production, Piracy and Organized Crime.
Review
" . This copyright law fiction has project piracy as its lodestar, and this book indeed has all the makings of (dare I say) a Bollywood Masala movie, albeit with the only difference that the author casts his mojo by interweaving the legal aspects of the copyright law debate within its theatrical setting of Bollywood in Mumbai. ... “
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ROAD HUMPS AND SIDEWALKS
• A Tale of Patents, Drugs, Health Care and Greed
• “A blind lawyer, a virus outbreak, a dog that dreams and a patent infringement case. Dr. Kalyan Kankanala’s debut fiction, Road Humps and Sidewalks: The Path less travelled is an engrossing fast-paced legal thriller”
- The Hindu
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FUN IP– Fun IP makes intellectual property learning
fun, and enjoyable.
– Some Reviews
– "Written in a very easy to understand language, FUN IP is anexcellent book for those not well versed in IP."
– - Journal of IPR
– "While comprehensive treatment of even a single subject covered by Fun IP would require many volumes, this book does provide a good overview of all the types of intellectual property protection. "
- Patent Baristas
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THANK YOU.
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