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Product Design: BITS Pilani
Product Design: BITS Pilani
(DE G531)
BITS Pilani
Pilani | Dubai | Goa | Hyderabad
Dr. Nitin Kotkunde
BITS Pilani
Pilani | Dubai | Goa | Hyderabad
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C o n te n t
• Reliable source?
• Getting pin pointed and reliable information with less effort and time is a key
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So u r ce s o f In fo r m a ti o n
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L ib r a r y So u r ce s o f In fo r m a ti o n
Technical dictionaries
Technical encyclopedias
Handbooks
Textbooks and monographs
Indexing and abstracting services
Technical reports
Patents
Suppliers catalogs and brochures and
other trade literature
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G o ve r n m e n t So u r c e s o f In fo r m a ti o n
Reports prepared
under contract by Government
Government-
industrial and Printing Offi ce
sponsored reports
university R&D (GPO)
organizations
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I n fo r m a tio n fr o m th e In te r n e t
https://www.techrepublic.com/blog/10-things/10-tips-for-smarter-more-efficient-internet-
searching/
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Pr o fe ssi o n a l So ci e t i e s a n d Tra d e
As so ci a ti o n s
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C o d e s a n d Sta n d a r d s
• A standard can be defined as a set of technical definitions and guidelines-“how to"
instructions for designers and manufacturers.
• They serve as a common language, defining quality and establishing safety criteria.
• A code is a standard that has been adopted by one or more governmental bodies
and has the force of law, or when it has been incorporated into a business contract
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Sp e ci fi ca ti o n s
something.
• They are set of instructions and/or requirements over and above requirements
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Pa t e n ts a n d o th e r In te l l e ctu a l P r o p e r ty
• Term of a new patent is 20 years from the date on which the application for the patent
was filed in the United States.
• US patent grants are effective only within the US, US territories, and US possessions.
• Patentability: "any person who invents any new and useful process, machine,
manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof“.
• Conditions of Patentability:
– Utility
– Novelty
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Pa t e n ts a n d o th e r In te l l e ctu a l P r o p e r ty
Example:
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Pa t e n t p r o ce d u r e i n In d i a
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Tr a d e m a r ks
• Not to prevent others from making the same goods or from selling the same
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C o p y ri g h ts
• Including literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, and certain other intellectual works, both
published and unpublished
• Not protected:
– Unrecorded choreography
– Slogans, short names, titles, familiar symbols
– Ideas, procedures, methods, systems, principles
– Information that is "common property: Calendars, rulers, tape measures,
public lists
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Tr a d e Se cr e t
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C o m p a n y- ce n te r e d In fo r m a ti o n
• Cost data on previous projects • Design guides prepared for new employees
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THANK YOU!
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