Realising the importance of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs), universities, technical and educational institutes in Punjab are getting their innovations patented.
Already 27 applications have been filed through the Patent Information Centre of the Punjab State Council for Science and Technology, Chandigarh.
Of the total applications, patents have been granted to eight applications. Among the prominent innovations which have been granted patent are determination of Copper in Copper Plating Industrial Effluents by Neelam Verma of Punjabi University (Patiala), Earthquake Alarm by Kuldeep Singh, Government Polytechnic (Bathinda), Mechanism to clear bird dropping under the cage in poultry farm by Kuldeep Singh Nagla, and National Institute of Technology (Jalandhar).
Also, three patents have been granted to Gurmeet Singh, Government High School, Mehtan (Phagwara). These are a manipulative device for visual understanding of geometrical theorems relating to triangles, visual understanding of geometrical theorems and devices for visual understanding of geometrical theorems.