Kanpur: Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT-K) has submitted 107 patents in the calendar in 2021, making it the highest number of intellectual property rights (IPR) that had been submitted by the Institute by breaking the 76 patent record proposed earlier in 2019.
This achievement was achieved Despite the disaster impact of the second wave of Covid-19.among 107 IPR submitted, the prospects of different IPR include 62 patents, 15 design registration, two copyrights and 24 trademark applications along with four US patent applications.
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Director, Iit-Kanpur, professor Abhay Karandikar said, “I am happy to share that Iit-Kanpur not only crosses a century in terms of submission of patents in 2021, but also has reached a total of 810 IPRs for a certain period of time.” Commercialization activities in IIT- Kanpur has witnessed an increase in doubling income from IP license.