ITMU Cell

At IIPR under the guidance of ICAR, Krishi Bhawan the ITMU is established and taking care all the cases/ procedure related to Intellectual Property (IP) as per ICAR guidelines of “Intellectual Property Management and Technology Transfer/ Commercialization” which is effective from Oct 2, 2006.

Aims & Objectives

To accelerate technology development and utilization between IIPR and entrepreneurs for commercialization of agri technologies.
To develop business policy and planning for commercialization of technologies.
Creating methodologies to identify research priorities that can bring economic gains through commercialization

Mandate

To create awareness about IPRs in IIPR.
Guide the researches in respect of protecting their inventions and other IP’s.
Active assistance in preparation and drafting of Memorandum of Understandings (MoU’s).
To provide prior art search/ patent search to Scientist/ Researchers of the Institute.
To provide prior art search/ patent search to Scientist/ Researchers of the Institute.
Identification of potential technologies of the institute which is capable for IPR protection/commercialization.
To procure and provide latest books dealing with different aspects of Intellectual Property Rights.
Database management of institute IP’s i.e registered varieties and germplasm, success stories, contract research etc.

Constitution

A high powered committee viz., Institute Technology Management Committee (ITMC) also exists to take the final decision on commercialization of technologies generated at Institute. A composition of the committee is:

Dr. N.P. Singh, Director Chairman
Dr. Shiv Sewak, Member
Dr. Jagdish Singh, Member
Dr. Krishna Kumar, Member
Dr. Rajesh Kumar, Member
Dr. C.S. Prahraj, Member
Dr. I.P. Singh, Ex-Officio Member
Dr. G.P. Dixit, Ex-Officio Member
Dr. Sanjeev Gupta, Ex-Officio Member
Dr. Devraj, Member
Dr. Udai Chandra Jha, Member
Dr. Aditya Pratap, Member Secretary