Enhancing IP/Patent Quantity/Quality

IP Audit/Mining as a Tool

By

Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala

BananaIP - www.bananaip.com

kalyan@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

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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

• For details: www.kalyankankanala.com

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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.

Blog: www.bananaip.com/sinapse-blogkalyan@bananaip.com