Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Department of Industrial and Management Engineering

Workshop on

Role of Patent Literature in Technology Development

1-2 December 2005

Introduction

With the advent of globalization and liberalization, technology has become important for competitiveness of the Indian Industry. Traditionally, developed countries have protected and controlled Intellectual  Property through patents.  Patent literature is a rich source of information about technological knowledge and if used appropriately can become a valuable tool in technology development.

Technology mapping helps in understanding the relevance and progress of  various sub-technologies. It helps in classifying sub-technologies, measure their  progress, identify the major players, asses the maturity level and the likelihood of commercialization.

Technology Development in Indian Languages

The Department of Communication and Information Technology initiated TDIL with the objective of developing information  processing tools and techniques to facilitate man machine interaction without language barrier. The thrust areas  include translation support systems and man  machine interface system.

This workshop is aimed at discussing the impact of patents on technology development through a technology mapping search engine developed at IIT Kanpur through the project support from Intellectual Property Cell of Ministry of Communication and Information Technology. The participants would also be exposed to patents in their research area which would encourage them to use patent literature as a rich source of knowledge as well as to file patents. In each session, the participants will be given a document containing selected relevant patents granted by USPTO.

Conference Agenda

The conference agenda includes :

Focus on TDIL

Identify patents in the areas of OCR and Machine Translation Support System from the USPTO web site.
Relate and compare the work done under TDIL projects with the identified patents.

Who Should Attend

Research and development managers, technologists and scientists involved in commercialization of technologies, professionals in the area of IPR and technology transfer, entrepreneurs  interested in acting as service providers in IPR area.

Schedule

Date
 Time Speaker and Affiliation  
Venue
1 Dec, 2005 9:00-10:00 Inauguration :
Prof. S. G. Dhande, IIT Kanpur
Dr R.C. Tripathi, MCIT
Prof. A K Mittal, IIT Kanpur
Dr. Ajai Garg, MCIT
 		   Pioneer Batch Continuing Education Center, Visitors Hostel Extension
10:00-10:30 Inaugural Tea  
10:30-11:15 Dr. R C Tripathi, Director, MCIT Patents and technology development
 
11:15-12:00 Prof. A K Mittal, IIT Kanpur Text Mining
 
12:00-12:45 Prof. Jayanta Chatterjee, IIT Kanpur A business development approach to Patent search-leveraging the KM to Innovation connection
 
12:45-13:45 Lunch
 
13:45-14:30 Mr. T Usmani, ITI Naini, Allahabad Developing technology for solar systems
 
14:30-15:15 Prof. Veena Bansal, IIT Kanpur
 		 Image Mining
 
15:15-15:45 Tea and Move to IME lab
 		  
15:45-17:30 Prof. Veena Bansal, IIT Kanpur
Project Staff		  Search Engine
 		 IME Lab
19:30-22:00 Workshop Dinner
 		 Visitors Hostel
2 Dec, 2005 9:00-9:30 Prof. M D Tiwari, IIIT Allahabad Plenary lecture
 		 Pioneer Batch Continuing Education Center, Visitors Hostel Extension
9:30-10:00
 		 Dr P K Chaturvedi, Amity
 		 Plenary lecture
 
10:00-11:15 Prof. R Moona, IIT Kanpur Basic Indian Language Tools
11:15-11:30 Tea
 
11:30-12:45 Prof. R.M.K. Sinha, IIT Kanpur
Prof. R. Sangal, Director, IIIT Hyderabad		 Machine Translation & Natural Language Processing
12:45-13:45 Lunch
 
13:45-15:00 Prof. Veena Bansal, IIT Kanpur Man Machine Interface
15:00-15:15 Tea Break
 
15:15-16:30 Prof. T V Prabhakar (tentative), IIT Kanpur Content Creation & Search Strategy
16:30-17:30
 		 Dr. Om Vikas, Dr. P K Chaturvedi, Dr. A Garg, Dr. S K jain, Dr. M D Tiwari, Dr. R C Tripathi, Prof. R M K Sinha, Prof. R Sangal, Prof A K Mittal
 		 Panel Discussion
 
 

 

Organizing Committee

Prof. A K Mittal, IIT Kanpur

Prof. Veena Bansal, IIT Kanpur

Dr. Ajai Garg, MCIT, New Delhi