IPR Awareness
Promote continuous awareness among students and faculty members about Intellectual Property Rights and the importance of protecting intellectual creations.
Protecting Ideas & Encouraging Innovation
Building Awareness of Intellectual Property
Intellectual property plays an important role in providing a competitive and innovative advantage to educational institutions, researchers and creators. Stella Mary's College of Engineering recognises the importance of intellectual-property generation by faculty members and students and encourages creativity, research and innovation that may result in valuable intellectual assets. The IPR Cell provides awareness, guidance and institutional support to help students and faculty members understand the importance of protecting inventions and innovative ideas.
IPR Cell Focus
Awareness, patents, innovation protection and guidance for intellectual creations.
Objectives of the IPR Cell
Promoting intellectual-property awareness and supporting the protection of innovative ideas.
Workshops & Seminars
Conduct workshops, seminars and awareness programmes that improve understanding of intellectual property, patents and innovation protection.
Patent Knowledge
Disseminate knowledge relating to patents, invention disclosure, intellectual-property protection and the value of protecting innovative ideas.
Innovation Support
Provide guidance and support to students, faculty members and innovators seeking appropriate protection for inventions and creative ideas.
IPR Cell Faculty Members
Faculty members supporting Intellectual Property Rights awareness, innovation and institutional IPR activities.
IPR Cell faculty member information is currently being updated.
IPR Action Plan
Institutional focus areas for developing awareness, innovation literacy and intellectual-property protection.
01
Create IPR Awareness
Encourage awareness of patents, copyrights, trademarks, designs and other forms of intellectual property among the academic community.
02
Identify Innovative Work
Encourage students and faculty members to identify potentially protectable inventions, innovations, designs and creative outputs arising from academic and research activities.
03
Promote Patent Literacy
Improve understanding of patent documentation, prior-art awareness, invention disclosure and the broad process of protecting intellectual property.
04
Conduct Capacity Building
Organise suitable talks, workshops, seminars and expert interactions relating to Intellectual Property Rights and innovation protection.
05
Guide Innovators
Provide institutional guidance to innovators who require support in understanding suitable mechanisms for protecting their intellectual creations.
06
Strengthen Innovation Culture
Encourage an institutional culture in which research, creativity, innovation and responsible intellectual-property protection are recognised and supported.
Innovation & IPR Gallery
Selected photographs showcasing student innovation and technical activities.
What does the Intellectual Property Rights Cell at Stella Mary's College of Engineering do?
The Intellectual Property Rights Cell at Stella Mary's College of Engineering, Kanyakumari, promotes awareness and understanding of intellectual-property protection among students and faculty members. The cell encourages innovators to recognise potentially valuable inventions and creative outputs, develops awareness relating to patents and other forms of Intellectual Property Rights, organises IPR-oriented learning activities and provides institutional guidance for protecting innovative ideas. Its broader purpose is to strengthen a culture of research, creativity, innovation and responsible intellectual-property protection within the engineering institution.