Management of Intellectual Property Rights and Strategy (MIPS 2016)

3rd International Conference on Management of Intellectual Property Rights and Strategy

(MIPS 2016) was held at National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE) Mumbai from

15-16 July 2016. The conference was jointly organized by MHRD IPR Chair, IIT Bombay and

NITIE Mumbai

The theme of the conference was IP for Development: The Emerging Paradigm Over a period

of 3 days various keynotes, panel discussion, papers, poster and workshop were centered on

sub theme of the conference, driving nation’s development through IP ecosystem.

The inaugural address for the conference was given by Shri. O.P. Gupta, Controller General of

Patents Designs and Trademarks, Government of India. The key take ways from the talk was

on process and excellence in operation of patent evaluation undertaken by government. Rajeev

Srinivasan, Member, National Think Tank Policy, Government of India address the audience

by stating the capabilities of Indians to Innovative and how IP can help to maintain the edge in

businesses in this highly competitive scenario.

Three panel discussion on following topics were talk in length during the conference

Driving nation’s competitiveness – Make in India and IP strategy for ecosystem

development

Digital India – Role of IP in digital competitiveness

Negotiating India’s IP policy

Three keynotes on issues surrounding IP and its role in countries development agenda was

also discussed

India’s IP and Economy Policy by Prof. A Damodaran, IIM- Bangalore

Biological Resources, Agriculture, Intellectual Property and Development: From

Biodiversity to Bio economy by Dr. S Mauria from Indian Council for Agricultural

Research

Role of IP in Electronic and Information Technology industry by Dr. A K Garg, Add.

Commissioner, DeiTY, Govt. of India.

In total 30 papers were presented ranging across MELT (Management, Economics, Legal and

Technology) areas. From this pool of papers each paper from student and other category was

awarded given best paper award with a 3D printed memento of IPR chair done at AMCE,

NITIE and a cash prize of 15000/- INR

Student category

Measuring Research Efficiency of higher academic premier technical institutions of India: A

data Envelopment analysis based Malmquist Productivity Index Approach by Akriti Jain,

IIT-Delhi

Others Category

Secondary patents: Portfolio building or Evergreening? Presented by Saritha Kiran and

Mohan Kulkarni, URDIP-CSIR, Pune

This year saw the genesis of the poster competition on patent analytics, thanks to Relecura-

the sponsor for the competition

Winners for the Patent Analytics competition

Poster titled Innovations in Modern Biotechnology in India by Kashmira Parihar, Parchitee

and Dr. (Mrs.) Manasi Telang, URDIP-CSIR, Pune,bagged first prize of Rs. 10000/- and a

memento.

Poster titled “Indian and Global Food Processing Companies in India: Patent

Informatics & Analysis” by Rohit Sood, NITIE, bagged second prize of rupees 5000/- and a

memento.

3rd International Conference on Management of Intellectual Property Rights &

Strategy

15-16 July 2016, NITIE, Mumbai

Inaugural of MIPS 2016, at NITIE, Mumbai

(L to R – Prof. Shishir Kumar Jha (Conference Co-Chair, IITB) Shri Rajeev Srinivasan, (Member, National Think Tank Policy,

Government of India), Prof. (Ms). Karuna Jain (Director, NITIE), Shri. O.P.Gupta (Controller General of Patent Designs and

Trademarks, Government of India), Prof. A Damodaran (IIM- B), Prof. Mukundan R (Conference Co-Chair, NITIE)

Inaugral Address by Shri. O. P. Gupta

MIPS Proceeding release by dignitaries on Dais

Get-together for Group Photo at NITIE lawn

Panel discussion: - Driving nation’s competitiveness - Make in India and IP strategy for

ecosystem development

(L to R – Dr. Vijay Paranjape, (Sathguru Management Consultants), Ms. Jaya Murthy (Eaton India), Dr. Raj

Hirwani (Director, URDIP- CSIR), Dr, Aravind Chinchure ( Symbiosis, Pune) & Prof Ashok K Pundir (Dean

Students Affair’s and Placement, NITIE)

Genesis of Poster competition in MIPS 2016

Invited paper presented during the conference

Panel discussion – Digital India – Role of IP in digital competitiveness

(L to R: - JD Sanjeeth Hegde, (Banana IP), Ms. Chitra Iyer (Head of IP&S at Philips-India), Dr. Neil Wilkof, (Bresseler Group,

Israel), Prof. Shishir K Jha ( IIT-Bombay)

Heartily congratulation to Winners of Best paper and Best Poster in MIPS 2016

Best Paper award in Non-Student category from URDIP CSIR, Pune

Presented by Dr. A K Garg

Best Paper award in Student category, Akriti Jain, IIT-Delhi

1st Prize in Poster competition on patent analytics winners from

URDIP CSIR, Pune

2nd Prize in Poster competition on patent analytics to Mr. Rohit Sood,

NITIE

3D3D 3D Printed IPR Chair logo , Memento @AMCE, NITIE

MIPS 2016