International Technology Transfer Symposium

Summary Report and Key Recommendations

In collaboration with
United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) &
Office of the Controller General of Patent, Design & Trademark (CGPDTM)
23/05/2023,
Tamarind Hall, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi

Organized by
नेशनल रिसर्च डिवेलपमेंट कारपोरेशन (एनआरडीसी)
National Research Development Corporation (NRDC)
(वै. औ. अनु. विभाग, विज्ञान और प्रौद्योगिकी मंत्रालय, भारत सरकार का उद्यम)
(An Enterprise of DSIR, Ministry of Science and Technology, Govt of India)

cmdnrdc@nrdc.in
 PREFACE

Commodore Amit Rastogi (Retd)

Chairman & Managing Director
National Research Development Corporation
An Enterprise of DSIR, Ministry of Science and Technology, Govt of India

It is a pleasure for us to unveil the deliberations and recommendations of ‘International Technology

Transfer Symposium’ which was organized by us in collaboration with United States Patent and
Trademark Office (USPTO) and Indian Patent Office(IPO) on 23rd May, 2023 at New Delhi. Tech-
nology transfer provides last mile connectivity and the process should be efficient with lot of value
addition in making Technology Readiness Level to Business Readiness Level. But there is a
requirement to see whether these processes are efficient or not and this forms the genesis to organise
this technology transfer symposium with participation from stakeholders and participants from
academia, industry, government, startups and MSMEs. .

This report and the deliberations on the Symposium, discusses the opportunities and challenges of
the stakeholders in the innovation ecosystem with a special emphasis on importance of innovation
management, IP management,technology transfer best practices, technology valuation mechanisms
in India & US and commercialization for institutions, industries, scientists, engineers, technolo-
gists, researchers and governments. Across the world, the stakeholders in Innovation ecosystem are
seeking to understand the strategies of technology commercialisation leading to successful deploy-
ment of technology, revenue generation and socio economic benefit .

I congratulate our team, for organizing this symposium with the active participation from relevant
stakeholders across the globe. This summary report and recommendations emanating from the
deliberations will be torch bearing to connect the dots in managing innovations and leading them to
benefit the society.

Jai Hind

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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The International Technology Transfer Symposium demonstrated that there is a need for a collabo-
rative effort with key stakeholders to overcome the challenges of technology value addition and
technology transfer & commercialisation process. Commercialization of IPR is key to accelerate
the technological innovation process.

At the outset, we are grateful to our CMD, Commodore Amit Rastogi (Retd) for his leadership
support and for entrusting this program to us. We are also thankful to Mr John Cabeca, United States
IP Counselor to South Asia, USPTO for handholding the program and providing intime collabora-
tive support.

We are thankful to participants from USPTO, Office of the PSA, CGPDTM, DST, DPIIT, DSIR,
CSIR, CIPAM, DBT and various R&D institutes and universities for their participation in the sym-
posium and their inputs and recommendations will certainly make the difference.

Shri N.G. Lakshminarayan Dr Bijay Kumar Sahu

Chief, NRDC, Convenor & Coordinator of Symposium
lnarayan@nrdc.in, 9945204755 bksahu @nrdc.in, 9810104163

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 Contents

1. INTRODUCTION: .................................................................................................................5

2. INAUGURAL PROGRAM: ...................................................................................................7

3. TECHNICAL SESSIONS: ...................................................................................................10

3.1 Overview of the United States Technology Transfer System: ............................................... 10

3.2 Indian Technology Transfer: Policy, Practice, Mechanism & Ecosystem: ............................ 10
3.3 Understanding Stakeholders Perspectives on TOT: ............................................................... 11
3.4 Managing a Technology Transfer Office-University Perspectives: ...................................... 12
4. TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER INDUSTRY PERSPECTIVES: ..........................................13

5. RECOMMENDATIONS & KEY TAKEAWAYS: .............................................................14

ANNEXURE – I - AGENDA ...................................................................................................15

ANNEXURE II - LIST OF PARTICIPANTS ..........................................................................16

ANNEXURE III - TOP LEADERSHIP TESTIMONIALS AND STATEMENTS ................19

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1. INTRODUCTION:

Science, technology and innovation have always been catalysts for societal and economic progress.
Technology is most powerful when shared and technology transfer serves as a crucial conduit for
turning break through inventions into practical applications. In recent years, disruptive invention
and innovation have emerged as powerful forces, revolutionizing traditional approaches to learning
and opening new horizons for acquiring knowledge and skills. Technology transfer plays a key role
in achieving India’s vision of ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat’ & ‘Make in India’ mission which is devised to
transform India into a global manufacturing hub by fostering innovation, facilitating investment and
protecting intellectual property rights. Technology transfer is the process of transferring scientific
findings from one organization to another for further development and commercialization. The
process typically includes identifying new potential technologies; protecting them through IPR and;
forming development and commercialization strategies such as marketing and licensing to existing
companies or new startup based on the technology. The ultimate benefit of technology transfer,
however, is the public that is derived from the products that reach the market and the jobs that result
from the development and sale of products.

In the light of above, National Research Development Corporation (NRDC), an enterprise under
Department of Scientific & Industrial Research (DSIR), Government of India in collaboration with
United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) and Indian Patent Office (IPO) organized an
‘International Technology Transfer Symposium’ on 23rd May 2023 at India Habitat Centre, New
Delhi to understand the best practices followed in the field of technology transfer and to devise
new strategies to strengthen the ecosystem of technology transfer collaboration opportunities.

NRDC has been serving the nation since 1953, and became the torch bearer in the country in the
area of technology transfer and IP management, with the objective to promote, develop and com-
mercialize the technologies / know-how/ inventions / patents / processes emanating from various
national R&D institutions / Universities and is presently working under the administrative control
of the DSIR, Ministry of Science & Technology, Govt of India. NRDC has forged strong links with
the scientific and industrial community in India and abroad and developed a wide network of
research institutions, academia and industry and made formal arrangements with them for the com-
mercialization of know-how developed in their laboratories and is now recognized as a large reposi-
tory of wide range of technologies spread over almost all areas of industries, viz. agriculture and
agro-processing, food and food processing, chemicals including drugs and pharmaceuticals,
biotechnology, metallurgy, electronics and instrumentation, building materials, mechanical, electri-
cal and electronics etc. It has licensed the indigenous technologies to over 5000 entrepreneurs and
helped to establish over 1000 small and medium and large scale industries.

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is the federal agency for granting United
States patents and registering trademarks. In doing this, the USPTO fulfills the mandate of Article
I, Section 8, Clause 8, of the Constitution that the legislative branch "promote the Progress of
Science and useful arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right
to their respective Writings and Discoveries." Under this system of protection, American industry
has flourished. New products have been invented, new uses for old ones discovered, and employ-
ment opportunities created for millions of Americans. The strength and vitality of the U.S. economy
depends directly on effective mechanisms that protect new ideas and investments in innovation and
creativity. The continued demand for patents and trademarks underscores the ingenuity of American
inventors and entrepreneurs. The USPTO is at the cutting edge of the nation's technological prog-
ress and achievement.

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The symposium aimed to facilitate knowledge exchange and collaboration in the field of technolo-
gy transfer among national and international participants and it was organized with insightful inputs
from key officials from NRDC, CSIR, USPTO, BIRAC, TIFAC and other relevant organizations.
The International Technology Transfer Symposium was attended by key stakeholders from Govern-
ment, Policy makers, Technology Transfer Offices, Academia, R& D Institutions,MSMEs,Startups
and Non government organizations. The Technology Transfer Symposium provided an opportunity
to bring all stakeholders to one platform to share their experiences, exchange views and explore
new frontiers to address the challenges that lie ahead in developing strong and vibrant innovation
eco-system. This report provides a summary of the discussions at the symposium and the recom-
mendations emerging from the meeting.

The Program Schedule was divided into the following sessions:

Session 1 : Inaugural Program

Session 2 : Technical Program

1. Overview of the United States Technology Transfer System

2. Indian Technology Transfer Policy, Practices, Mechanism & Ecosystem
3. Understanding Stakeholders Perspective on ToT & Technology Exchange
4. Managing a Technology Transfer Office-University Perspectives
5. Technology Transfer Industry Perspectives

Session 3 : Valedictory Remarks and Way Forward

Session 4 : Technology Transfer Industry Perspectives

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2. INAUGURAL PROGRAM:

During the inaugural session, Shri Surinder Pal Singh, Joint Secretary, DSIR, GOI; Mr John
Cabeca, United States IP Counselor to South Asia, USPTO; Rahul Das, Patent Attorney, Office of
Policy and Internal Affairs, United State Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO), USA; Shri N.G.
Lakshminarayan, Chief, NRDC, Shri Subodh Chawla, Chief, NRDC have initiated the ceremony of
lamp lightning. The event was attended by senior officials from DPIIT, DSIR, CSIR, Office of the
PSA, CIPAM, BIRAC, DST, DBT and various R&D institutes and universities.

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while lighting the lamp

Dr B K Sahu, Senior Manager, NRDC; delivered the introduction and welcome note.Commodore
Amit Rastogi (Retd.), CMD, NRDC addressed the gathering virtually and stressed the need for
developing a strong and robust technology transfer system and efficient processes with TRL assess-
ment and IP valuation.

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Commodore Amit Rastogi (Retd.), CMD, NRDC in his inaugural address

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Mr. John Cabeca, United States IP Counselor to South Asia, USPTO emphasized USPTO’s role in
creating such collaborative opportunities for innovation translation in India and congratulated
NRDC for making such platform for deliberation.He stressed that strengthning the IP system is the
need of the hour. He mentioned about the USA’s approach to foster and nurture Innovation,
Research and IP management for emerging technologies.In his keynote address, Shri. Surinder Pal
Singh, Joint Secretary, DSIR congratulated NRDC for organizing such symposium in collaboration
with USPTO and IPO and emphasized that this effort leverage more innovation translation to our
society. He mentioned that India’s growth story has shown an upward trajectory and scaled up the
innovation index by 40 points, the startup ecosystem has placed India in 3rd position and the key to
grow these startups/msme’s/entrepreneurs is the effect of technology transfer from labs to industry.
He emphasized that this platform will share & learn the best practices from each other and under-
stand various approaches and mechanisms for strong and vibrant innovation ecosystem, discuss the
emerging trends in technology transfer at global scale.

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Special address by Mr. John Cabeca, Keynote address by Shri. Surinder Pal Singh,
United States IP Counselor Joint Secretary, DSIR

Prof (Dr) Unnat Pandit (Virtually), Hon’ble Controller General of Patent, Design & Trademark,
Govt. of India said that the pressing challenge lies in the commercialisation of IP and enabling it is
a high priority task. He emphasized the importance of Commercial Readiness level and Societal
Readiness level along with Technology Readiness level. IP monetization and need of collaboration
for enhancing such platform in the country is the need of the hour.

Dr (Mrs) N.Kalaiselvi (Virtually), Director General & Secretary, CSIR & DSIR in her inaugural
address emphasized the role of science, technology and innovation for driving the development of
society, that has lead to the economic progress of the society. She appreciated NRDC’s efforts in the
area of IP & technology transfer at both national and international levels.

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Dr (Mrs) N.Kalaiselvi, Director General & Secretary, CSIR & DSIR in her inaugural address
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NRDC has exchanged few technology transfer agreements on Wave Power Navigation Buoy to
M/s. NextEng Enviro Private Limited, Ahmedabad and Protein Fortified Millet Flakes to
licensee M/s.Davanagere and Chitradurga Districts Regional Co-operative Organic Farmers
Associations Federation Ltd. (R), Davanagere, Karnataka.

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Handing over of the technology transfer tripartite license
Agreement on Wave Power Navigation Buoy to
Mr. Varul Patel, Managing Director, M/s.NextEng Enviro
Private Limited, Ahmadabad.
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Handing over of four technology transfer agreement on
Protein Fortified Millet Flakes to Shri Krupa T, Chairman,
M/s.Davanagere and Chitradurga Districts Regional
Co-operative Organic Farmers Associations Federation Ltd.
(R), Davanagere.

During the event NRDC’s new organizational brochure was released.

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Release of NRDC’s new brochure.

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3. TECHNICAL SESSIONS:
3.1 Overview of the United States Technology Transfer System

Mr Rahul Das, Patent Attorney, Office of Policy and Internal Affairs, United State Patent & Trade-
mark Office (USPTO), USA. He mentioned about National Institute of Standards and Technology,
an agency responsible to submit a report to President and Congress describing all the technology
transfer activities for the United States anually. BAYH-DOLE Act, is the legal framework followed
by the nation since 1980 to promote the utilization of the federally funded R&D. Small Business
Administration’s (SBA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) or Small Business Technolo-
gy Transfer (STTR) programs were designed to ensure a portion of federal R&D funding into start-
ups and small businesses.

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3.2 Indian Technology Transfer: Policy, Practice, Mechanism & Ecosystem:

Dr Vibha Malhotra Sawhney, Scientist ‘H’ & Head- IPU & TMD, CSIR emphasized the robust
system of IP Licensing and Technology transfer in CSIR. She discussed varies models of IP licens-
ing i.e. exclusive or non-exclusive which is practiced on case to case basis in CSIR laboratories.

Dr Anita Aggarwal, Head TDT, DST gave overview of R&D funded projects by DST to various
stake holder in the country. She mentioned about Centre of Excellence in partnership with industry
and host institutes to strengthen their partnership. DST has already created 22 Technology Enabling
Centres in Universities to strengthen Technology awareness, technology transfer and IP systems.
Technology Research Centres are also supported by DST to promote technology commercialisa-

Dr Shirshendu Mukherjee, Mission Director, DBT- BIRAC gave an overview of the policy initia-
tives taken by BIRAC for IPR & Technology Transfer. BIRAC has funding mechanisms to promote
innovation from pre-concept to commercialisation. Technology Transfer Organizations funded by
BIRAC work on a hub and spoke model connecting academia and the industry.

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Shri N G Lakshminarayan, Chief, NRDC gave a brief introduction about NRDC’s major activi-
ties like Licensing of Technology, Intellectual Property Rights(IPR) Consultancy, Consultancy
Projects, Programme for Inspiring Inventors & Innovators, Programme for Development of Tech-
nologies for Commercialisation. He mentioned about Technology Development, Validation &
Commercialisation(TDVC) program to address the issue of the valley of death or gap funding for
technologies in TRL between 6-8 by infusing up to Rs 1 crore grant. He emphasized value-added
services like BEDP, Market surveys, feasibility reports and DPRs services provided by NRDC.

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Panel Speakers Shri N G Lakshminarayan, Chief, NRDC; Dr Shirshendu Mukherjee,
Mission Director, DBT-BIRAC; Dr Vibha Malhotra Sawhney, Scientist ‘H’ & Head- IPU
& TMD,CSIR and Dr Anita Aggarwal, Head TDT,DST (left to right).

3.3 Understanding Stakeholders Perspectives on TOT:

Stakeholders' perspectives on TOT and Technology Exchange was moderated by Dr B K Sahu from
NRDC and the panelists include Dr Tata Sudhakar, Chief Scientist from NIOT; Dr Yashwant Dev
Panwar, Scientist 'F' from TIFAC; Dr Mohit Gambhir, Adjuct Professor, IIT Jodhpur (virtual); Lalit
Ambastha, Founder, IP Bazar; Jatin Talwar, Founder, TT Consultant, Chevening-Oxford Fellow;
Vivek Singh, Head, IP Prosecution & Services, Sagacious IP.
Dr Tata Sudhakar, Chief Scientist from NIOT, emphasized the importance of establishing a com-
prehensive framework for managing intellectual property (IP) rights for public funded projects. He
raised the issues of the complexities in technology valuation and technology premium value assess-
ments. He urged a framework and standard mechanism to assess and address such challenges that
directly impact the technology commercialisation. He also intimated the framework of NIOT for
said activities.
Dr Yashwant Dev Panwar, Scientist 'F' from TIFAC, appraised the need for proper documentation
about the technology know-how which enables anyone who is trained in the art to replicate it. He
said that for technology transfer to be successful, there is a need for the right kind of documentation
support, framework support, royalty collection support and value addition support that is required.
Dr Mohit Gambhir, Adjunct Professor, at IIT Jodhpur, mentioned that technology transfer should
have a standard framework and mechanisms in line with national IPR policy.

Vivek Singh, Head, IP Prosecution & Services, Sagacious IP mentioned about the Singapore model
of IP commercialisation through Innovation Partner for Impact(IPI). They are primarily supporting
open innovation, innovation prototyping support, innovation market space and portal supporting IP
transfer.
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Lalit Ambastha, Founder, IP Bazar stated that most of the times the technology buyer is a small
entity and educating them about the technology benefits and challenges is also important. There is
a need for floating more courses in the valuation of technology and IP. Jatin Talwar, Founder, TT
Consultant, Chevening-Oxford Fellow, appraised about ways of using AI in the innovation man-
agement. He pointed that technology should be leveraged properly and right tools should be used
democratically.

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Panle speakers Jatin Talwar , Founder, TT Consultant; Dr Tata Sudhakar,
Chief Scientist, NIOT; Dr B K Sahu, Sr Manager, NRDC; ) Lalit Ambastha,
Founder, IP Bazar ; Dr Yashwant Dev Panwar, TIFAC; Vivek Singh, Head,
Sagacious IP (left to right)

3.4 Managing a Technology Transfer Office-University Perspectives:

The presentation on managing a TTO -University Perspectives was delivered online by Richard
Cahoon, President at BioProperty Strategy Group, Inc., and Former Director of Technology Trans-
fer at Cornell University, USA. Richard Cahoon gave instrumental insights in line with Cornell
University's TTO activities.

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The Center for Technology Licensing (CTL) is Cornell University’s technology transfer office and
its mission is to bring the University’s scientific discoveries, technological innovations, and medi-
cal advances to the marketplace for societal benefit. To bridge the gap between lab and market,
business ideas, and successful startups, CTL manages the university gap funding series and works
closely with the university’s incubators and accelerators to advance commercialization, new
ventures, and partnerships. He explained the US University Tech Transfer system, where technolog-
ical advancement for the public good is the primary goal. University always owns and licenses its
patents. He has also explained various Technology Transfer Office models.
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4. TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER INDUSTRY PERSPECTIVES :

This session was moderated by Mr Rahul Das, Patent Attorney, Office of Policy & International
Affairs at the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the panelists include Abhishek Jain,-
General Manager Tata Group; Yogesh Sharma, Global Head, External Research Collaborations,
Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research(NBR); Anubhav Kapoor, Director of Legal Affairs,
Ford India; Jenny Yang, Senior Director , Global Search & Evaluation, Novo Nordisk. This is the
industry perspective session and was attended by industry experts from all over the world i.e. com-
panies from India, China and USA. There was an active deliberation on various corporate strategies
towards in-licensing, out-licensing and IP commercialisation.

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Panel Speakers and the Panelists include Yogesh Sharma, Novartis Institute for Biomedical
Research(NBR); Abhishek Jain, General Manager, New Ventures at Tata Group; Jenny Yang,
Novo Nordisk ; Anubhav Kapoor, Director of Legal Affairs, Ford India; Mr Rahul Das, Patent
Attorney, USPTO (left to right)

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5. KEY RECOMMENDATIONS &TAKEAWAYS:

During the deliberation, collaboration opportunities were discussed and the following recommen-
dations were made.

1.IP awareness and technology commercialization awareness workshops should be conducted time
to time in a collaborative mode to understand the value of IP and its commercialisation in the
changing paradigm of innovation.

2.Strategic international partnerships on IP should be developed using bilateral and multilateral

channels.

3.Framework on IP holding rights and transfer of technology from institute for public funded proj-
ects is required in line of US Bayh-Dole Act.

4.IPR Policy mechanism must be put in place in universities and institutions that provide rules and
guidelines on the commercial exploitation of IP and benefit sharing mechanism.

5.There is a need for floating more deleberation on understanding valuation of technology and IP in
publicly funded organizations and R&D institutes.

6.Technology transfer with a focus on societal need is the important mantra for next 25 years.

7.Industry should be involved in the initial stages of technology development as sponsored

research, rather than at the final stage of technology commercialization.

8.There is a huge mismatch in the TRL claimed by the inventor and assessed by the industry. There
is a need for a standard TRL assessment practice which is desired by industries as well.

9.Techno economic assessment should be done diligently while evaluating the projects for public
funding.

10.There is a need for huge investments to support gap funding i.e. innovations between TRL 5-8.

11.Documentation about the technology know-how should enable anyone who is trained in the art
to replicate it.

12.AI generated and AI supported tools should be encouraged for innovation management.

13. For TOT activities, Universities/ technology transfer offices should work closely with incuba-
tors and accelerators.

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 ANNEXURE – I – AGENDA

International Technology Transfer Symposium

9.00 AM to 4.30 PM, 23rd May 2023,
Tamarind Hall, India Habitat Centre,New Delhi, India

Tentative Program Schedule

Time* Events
9.00 Hr-9.45 Hr Registra�on of Delegates, Networking Tea/ Coffee
Inaugural Program
(10.00 hr-10.45 hr)
Inaugura�on of Interna�onal Symposium and Invita�on to Guests
09.45 hr-09.47 hr Presenta�on of Bouquet
09.47hr-09.52 hr Ligh�ng of Lamp
09.52 hr-09.55 hr Welcome Note
09.55 hr-10.00 hr Se�ng tone of the Program: Dr B K Sahu, SRM, NRDC
10:00 hr-10.06 hr Address by Cmde Amit Rastogi (Retd), Chairman & Managing Director, NRDC
10:06 hr-10:15 hr Special Address: Mr John Cabeca, United States IP Counselor to South Asia, USPTO
10:15 hr-10:20 hr Key Note Address by the Guest of Honor: Mr Surinder Pal Singh, Joint Secretary,
DSIR ,Govt. of India
10:20 hr-10:30 hr Keynote Address by Prof (Dr) Unnat Pandit, Controller General of Patent, Design &
Trademark, Govt. of India (virtual)
10:30 hr-10.35 hr Inaugural Address by Dr (Mrs) N Kalaiselvi, Director General & Secretary, CSIR &
DSIR, Govt. of India
10.35hr-10.38 hr Handing over of Technology Transfer Agreement on Wave Power Navigation
Buoyto M/s. NextEng Enviro Private Limited, Ahmadabad
10.38 hr-10.42 hr Handing over of four Technology Transfer Agreements on Protein For�fied Millet
Flakes to M/s.Davanagere & Chitradurga Districts Regional Co-opOrganic Farmers
Associa�ons Federa�on Ltd. (R), Davanagere
10:42 hr-10:44 hr Vote of Thanks: Mr Subodh Chawla, Chief ,NRDC
10.44 hr-10.45 hr Group Photo
Technical Program
(10.45 hr-16.30 hr)
10.45 hr-11.35 hr Overview of the United States Technology Transfer System
• Rahul Das, Patent A�orney, Office of Policy and International Affairs, United
State Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO),USA
11.35 hr-12.25 hr Indian Technology Transfer: Policy, Practice, Mechanism & Ecosystem
• Dr Vibha Malhotra Sawhney, Scien�st ‘H’ & Head-IPU &TMD, CSIR
• Dr Anita Aggrawal, Head TDT ,DST
• Dr Shirshendhu Mukherjee, Mission Director, DBT-BIRAC
• N G Lakshminarayan, Chief, NRDC
12.25 hr-13.15 hr Lunch

13.15 hr-13.45 hr Understanding Stakeholders Perspectives on TOT & Technology Exchange

Moderator: Dr B K Sahu, NRDC
Panelists:
• Dr Tata Sudhakar, Chief Scien�st, NIOT
• Dr Yashwant Dev Panwar, Scien�st ‘F’ TIFAC
• Dr Mohit Gambhir, Adjunct Professor, IIT Jodhpur(virtual)
• Lalit Ambastha, Founder, IP Bazzar
• Ja�n Talwar, Founder, TT Consultant, Chevening- Oxford Fellow
• Vivek Singh, Head, IP Prosecu�on & Services, Sagacious IP
13.45 hr-14.35 hr Managing a Technology Transfer Office-University Perspectives
Richard Cahoon, President at BioProperty Strategy Group, Inc., and Former Director
of Technology Transfer at Cornell University, USA
14.35 hr-14.50 hr Networking Tea Break
14.50 hr-15.50 hr Technology Transfer Industry Perspec�ves
Moderator: Rahul Das, Patent A�orney, Office of Policy and International Affairs at
the United States Patent and Trademark Office
Panelists:
 Abhishek Jain, General Manager, New Ventures at the Tata Group
 Yogesh Sharma, Global Head, External Research Collabora�ons, Novartis
Institutes for Biomedical Research (NIBR)
 Anubhav Kapoor, Director of Legal Affairs, Ford India
 Jenny Yang, Senior Director, Global Search & Evalua�on, Novo Nordisk
15.50 hr-16.30 hr Valedictory Remarks & Way Forward
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 ANNEXURE II - LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

S.No. Names Organisation

1 Pro.(Dr.) Unnat P. Pandit (Virtual) Govt. Of India
2 Mr. John Cabeca US Embassy, New Delhi
3 Mr. Surinder Pal Singh DSIR & CSIR, Govt. Of India
4 Mr. Richard Cahoon (Virtual) Cornell University, USA
5 Dr. Shrishendu Mukherjee DBT-BIRAC, Govt. Of India
6 Dr. Vibha Malhotra Sawhney CSIR, Govt. Of India
7 Mr. Rahul Das Office of Policy & International Affair, United States
Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO), USA
8 Mr. Anubhav Kapoor (Virtual) Ford India
9 Ms. Jenny Yang (Virtual) Novo Nordisk
10 Dr. Anita Aggarwal DST, Govt. Of India
11 Dr. Yashawant Dev Panwar Technology Information Forecasting & Assessment
Council
12 Mr. Abhisek Jain (Virtual) Tata Group
13 Mr.Yogesh Sharma(Virtual) Novartis Institues for Biomedical Research (NIBR)
14 Mr. Lalit Ambastha Founder- Patentwire, Co-founder IP Bazar
15 Mr. Vivek Singh Sagacious IP
16 Dr. Mohit Gambir(Virtual) Adjuct Professor, IIT Jodhpur
17 Dr. Tata Sudhakar NIOT
18 Jitin Talwar TT Consultant
19 Shri N G Lakshminarayan NRDC
20 Shri Subodh Chawla NRDC
21 Shri Rajendra B Gondane NRDC
22 Aditya Sharma NRDC
23 Ramya Malaraju NRDC
24 Dr Bijay Kumar Sahu NRDC
25 Mr V K Jain NRDC
26 Mr Arvind Kaushik NRDC
27 Mr Amitab Mishra NRDC
28 Mr A P Singh NRDC
29 Dr Sanjeev Kumar Majumdar NRDC
30 Mrs Dipanithya Banerjee NRDC
31 Dr Aditi Chauhan PAU, Chandigarh
32 Dr Amit Bansiwal NEERI
33 Dr Dipak Kumar DPIIT
34 Dr Kashmir Singh DST Policy Centre
35 Dr Mamata Bhardwaj DST Policy Centre, Chandigarh
36 Dr Meenakhi Singh CSIR
37 Dr Pramod Prasad SERB
38 Dr Prashant Chaubey CSIO
39 Dr. Ameet Chavan VIT
40 DR. ANUSHRI GUPTA ANUSHRI GUPTA & ASSOCIATES
41 Dr. Arushi Verma TIFAC
42 Dr. Debapriya Dutta SEED, DST
43 Dr. Jonas Davidson, CECRI
44 Dr. Kritika Gupta BCIL
45 Dr. Md. Sirajudeen - Professor SCOPE
46 Dr. Satish L CSRTI,Mysore
47 Dr. Shivnarayan Nishad CSIR-NIScPR
48 Dr. Tahira Khan TIFAC

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49 Dr.Jitendra Singh CTRTI,Ranchi

50 Dr.Poornima Chandran Registered Patent Agent

51 Garima Singhal ICMR
52 Himani Vashisth FITT
53 Lalit Kapur Evalueserve
54 LIPIKA PATNAIK CSIR
55 Moumita Gorai CIPAM
56 Namita Gupta FITT
57 Nishy P CSIR NIIST
58 Padma Kumari S CSIR-IIP
59 Pragati Agarwal FITT
60 Pragnya Chaturvedi UK IPO
61 Priyanka Raghav CSIO
62 Rajive Gulati SGT University
63 Ruchita Singh CIPAM
64 Samta Maurya MeitY
65 Sandeep Tandon UNIDO
66 Sukhdeep Kaur Panjab university
67 Swarup Kumar Kumar & Sardana Associates (KSA)
68 Swati Varshney
69 T. Selvan TIFAC
70 Utsav Mukherjee Singh & Singh Law Firm LLP
71 Vinita Krishna Shiv Nadar University
72 Rashima Singh BIRAC
73 Mr Soumil Mukherjee Office of the PSA
74 Kiran Yadav IPO, Delhi
75 Neelu Srivastav CSIR -NIScPR
76 Kailash T CSIR - IMTECH
77 Zixuan Wang Kommit Techno Legal LLP
78 Jenice JETRO
79 Manoj Varma IPO, Delhi
80 Dr Shahida Umar IPO, Delhi
81 Ms Dipti TIFAC
82 Vinay Kumar DSIR
83 Dr Anoop Singh DSIR
84 Suhail Ahmed USPTO
85 Mahesh USPTO
86 Dr Sujit Bhalal CSIR- NIScPR
87 Ekta Singh IPO, Delhi
88 Vinita Suyal IPO, Delhi
89 Dr Lakshmi IPO, Delhi
90 Shivam Verma IPO, Delhi
91 Bhanu Verma CSIR - IPU
92 Dr Arvind CSIR- NIScPR
93 Nitesh Kaushik UNIDO
94 Dr Nishiy P CSIR
95 Dr Dara Ajay IIT Madras
96 Ridhima ITTO, ATT
97 Sudhir Kochhar ICAR
98 Dr Shiv Narayan Nishal CSIR- NIScPR
99 Gaurav Kr Tomar Patent Office
100 Rahul Dhakad Patent Office

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102 Yogesh Sachav Patent Office
103 Sunil Sharan Yadav Patent Office
104 Krupa NA
105 Sanya Singh & Singh Law Firm LLP
106 Dr Deepika Rohotgi DSIR
107 Neeraj NA
108 Sangeeta Nagar TIFAC
109 Ankit Corossion
110 Ashutosh Corossion
111 Vishaka Gupta Patent Office
112 Ranjan Mukherjee TTC
113 Veeranna TERI
114 Sourabh IPO, Delhi
115 Dr Priti CSIO
116 Praveen Kumar IPO, Delhi
117 Divyansh Mishra IPO, Delhi
118 Anshuman Verma IPO, Delhi
119 Divyanshu Yadav SR4IPR
120 Dr Rahul Saxena Sharda University
121 Dr Bimesh Kumar IIMT
122 Chhayo Singh IIMT
123 Priya Pokhariya IIMT
124 Shruthi Pandey IIMT
125 Simran Chaurasia IIMT
126 Aditya Raj IIMT
127 Ankit Kumar Singh IIMT
128 Mr D Srihari NRDC
129 Mr R K Nangia NRDC

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STATEMENTS

Though India is very strong in science in global arena, there are many
challenges in moving from science to technology. This is where organizations
like NRDC come into picture and hanholding scientific organizations and
connecting them to startups/industry/msme’s and entrepreneurs. Therefore
NRDC deserves a great deal of appreciation.
Dr N Kalaiselvi, Director General, CSIR & Secretary DSIR, Govt. of India

Getting the IP certificate is not the end. It is the beginning.I appreciate NRDC
for this International Technology Transfer Symposium and bringing all
stakeholders together.

Prof. (Dr) Unnat P. Pandit,Controller General of Patents, Designs & TMs, GoI

USPTO is fortunate to have MoU with NRDC for past several years. Through
this MoU we have been successfully in doing several roundtable discussions
with academia, industry and government officials to talk about technology
transfer and challenges to face.

Mr. John Cabeca, United States Intellectual Property Counselor for

South Asia, U.S. Embassy – New Delhi, India

Appreciate NRDC in organizing such useful collaborative platform where we

shall listen and share our thoughts on technology transfer ecosystem and
possibilities of improved support and interaction among stakeholders. This
effort shall leverage more innovation translation to our society.

Shri. Surinder Pal Singh, Joint Secretary, DSIR

The syposium event would facilitate more engagement and partnerships

between universities, industry and federal laboratories providing licensing
platform, legal framework at early stage partnering with more commercial
parties.
Mr Rahul Das, Patent Attorney, Office of Policy and Internal Affairs,
United State Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO), USA

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CSIR actively promotes IP licensing & technology transfer, which involves
the dissemination of knowledge, expertise, and technologies to interested
clients, which involves engaging with potential licensees and negotiating
licensing agreements that enable the authorized use and commercialization
of developed technologies.
Dr Vibha Malhotra Sawhney, Head IP Unit, CSIR

DST has implemented a comprehensive mechanism that spans from the

development of technologies to their successful commercialization. By
providing these comprehensive support mechanisms, DST strives to empower
innovators and help them navigate the complexities involved in taking their
technologies from the lab to the marketplace.
Dr Anita Aggarwal, Head TDT, DST

BIRAC actively promotes technology management, which involves the

systematic and strategic approach to the development, evaluation, protection,
and commercialization of technologies, also requested to utlize support
scheme BIRAC PATH for IP filing assistance and various capacity-building
programs to strengthen the capabilities.
Dr Shirshendu Mukherjee, Mission Director, DBT- BIRAC

A flexible framework for technology commercialization providing structure

and allowing for customization, which can maximize the potential for
successful technology commercialization while adapting to the requirements
of different technologies and markets.

Dr Tata Sudhakar, Chief Scientist, NIOT

As most inventions build upon existing products, collaborating with the right
partners, along with a supportive framework and evaluation mechanisms, is
vital for the large-scale commercialization of inventions.

Dr Yashwant Dev Panwar, Scientist 'F' from TIFAC

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It is important to prioritize the quality of each invention and recognize that
not all innovations are suitable for commercialization, emphasizing the need
for meaningful knowledge transfer and a critical evaluation of the policy
framework is crucial.

Dr Mohit Gambhir, Adjuct Professor, IIT Jodhpur

Innovation is not providing solutions. Innovation is identifying problems.

Solutions are there, we have to identify the problems.

Lalit Ambastha, Founder, IP Bazar

Congratulations to all who are working towards converting paper into reve-
nue. The process of innovation should be democraticed .

Jatin Talwar, Founder, TT Consultant, Chevening-Oxford Fellow

Four Pillars are important, the first one is R&D and Innovation; next is
awareness about IP; third is patent filing and the most important and final one
is enforcement and commercialisation.

Vivek Singh, Head, IP Prosecution & Services, Sagacious IP mentioned

University IP and technology transfer policy enhance academia industry

collaboration towards new innovation & entrepreunership.

-Richard Cahoon, President at BioProperty Strategy Group, Inc.,

and Former Director of Technology Transfer at Cornell University, USA

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