5 IP rights transferred to industry
Background
An IP cell is not a filing service. It is a permanent function inside an institution: it finds inventions early, teaches people to recognise what is protectable, and moves the good ones through to a right that can be licensed or transferred.
MYCrave built and ran the IP cell at Rungta College of Engineering & Technology over seven years. The work was cumulative — awareness first, then a disclosure process, then filings, and finally the part most institutions never reach: technology transfer.
What we did
Awareness. Faculty and student sessions on what intellectual property is, what qualifies for protection, and why publishing or presenting before filing can destroy patentability. Most campus inventions are lost at exactly this step, long before anyone thinks about an application.
A disclosure pipeline. A standing process for capturing invention disclosures as they arise rather than in a rush before a deadline, with first-pass screening for novelty and industrial applicability.
Drafting and prosecution. Applications drafted with commercial claims in mind rather than academic description, then carried through examination and office actions.
Commercialisation. Identifying which registered rights had a realistic buyer, valuing them, and running the transfer.
The outcome
Three industrial design registrations and two utility patents completed technology transfer to industry — five rights that left the campus and entered commercial use.
That last figure is the one worth reading carefully. Filing counts are easy to grow. Transfers are not: they require a right drafted well enough to be worth buying, and an institution willing to let it go.
Why it worked
Seven years. There is no compressed version of this. The transfers happened because the awareness work had happened years earlier, and because disclosures were screened before drafting rather than after.
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