IPR, Legal & Ethical Matters Cell

Goals

The main goals of IPR, Legal & Ethical Matters Cell :

1. to promote, spur and encourage creative activities in all the areas of academics and research in the university;
2. to protect all lawful interests of the stakeholders including the University, faculty, scholars, students and other members of the University and the society at large so as to resolve conflicts of opposing interests;
3. to lay down a transparent and fair administrative system for the ownership, control and assignment of IPRs and sharing of the revenues resulting from the properties so created and held by the University;
4. to develop a mechanism through which research results and technology developed in the course of research in the campus may be transferred to the outside world through channels of commerce and transfer of technology;
5. to lay down standards for determining the rights and obligations of the university, creator of IP and their sponsors in respect of inventions, discoveries and intellectual works created in the university;
6. to secure compliance with extant regulatory norms with regard to IP creation and protection goodwill;
7. to build and sustain goodwill of the university as an academic institution of the highest order and to confer the benefits of its scholarship and teaching on the creators and users; and
8. to provide a mechanism for preservation and use of IP and lay down procedures through which invention and discoveries made in the course of research are disseminated to the public through the channels of transfer of technology, and also to generate intellectual property for common use and benefit while generating funds to further strengthen research and academic activities.