{"id":74282,"date":"2019-05-25T09:46:55","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T04:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/one\/?p=74282"},"modified":"2025-06-23T12:17:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T06:47:05","slug":"multinational-company-india-ip-audit-rd-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/multinational-company-india-ip-audit-rd-center\/","title":{"rendered":"A large multi-national company with an R&#038;D center in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Nature of the company: A large multi-national company with an R and D center in India<\/h2>\n<h3>Why they approached us:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Wanted to improve the quality, and number of inventions coming out of their Indian R &amp; D center;<\/li>\n<li>Wanted to spread IP awareness among their engineers\/scientists, and build some basic skills such as patent searching, disclosure drafting, and so on;<\/li>\n<li>Wanted to set up an in-house IP team, and institute processes that suit specific Indian circumstances.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What did we do:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Performed a comprehensive IP Audit\/Mining exercise to accomplish two objectives:\n<ul>\n<li>Uncover potential IP not disclosed earlier by inventors; and<\/li>\n<li>To study the R &amp; D processes, culture, and employee mind set.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Organized a series of awareness programs across divisions to build IP knowledge and skills;<\/li>\n<li>Organized boot camps for specific personnel nominated by the company for the IP team.<\/li>\n<li>Devised processes\/mechanisms for identifying inventions, improving transparency in the evaluation process, and taking shortlisted inventions for filing to IP attorneys.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Impact:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>About 148 potential inventions were uncovered, and 36 went for filing.<\/li>\n<li>The number of invention disclosures improved by three fold.<\/li>\n<li>The in-house IP Team to co-ordinate internal IP activities was set up within a month.<\/li>\n<li>An efficient, and transparent idea disclosure, assessment, and IP\/patent process was set up.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This case details how a multinational company improved its Indian R&#038;D centre&#8217;s intellectual property output through IP audits, targeted training, and new processes. Notable outcomes include a significant increase in invention disclosures and the establishment of a dedicated in-house IP team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4025],"tags":[10043,3896,10041,172,10046,6490,64,10047],"class_list":["post-74282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-case-study","tag-in-house-ip-team","tag-intellectual-property-training","tag-invention-disclosure","tag-ip-audit","tag-multinational-company-india","tag-patent-filing-india","tag-patent-process","tag-rd-centre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74282"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139026,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74282\/revisions\/139026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}