With two patents granted recently by the Indian Patent Office (IPO), the patent granting authority in India, the tally of those granted to the Shoolini University has gone up to 25.
Vice Chancellor Prof P K Khosla said it was a wonderful achievement for a university which is just a decade old. He said the faculty members and students of Shoolini University have filed a total of 415 patents since its inception. These have been filed in different categories like design, drugs, and products. Filing of about 20-25 more patents is also in the pipeline in the near future.
Prof Khosla said Shoolini University was among the three top institutions in the country to have filed about 180 patents last year.
He said the University would now like to focus on grant of patents. He pointed out that there are three stages to get patent granted. The first stage is filing a patent or registration for patent.
After a cooling off period of 18 months, the second stage starts in the form of Publication of patent in the research journals to check whether patent claim is true or false. After publication, the third stage starts which is ‘Request for Examination’ before the patent is finally granted. The entire procedure takes about three years since the date of filing. Out of the total patents filed till now, 175 have been ‘published’ while 11 were in ‘Request of examination’ stage.
Prof Khosla said Shoolini university has its own Intellectual property right (IPR) cell. The cell is dedicated to encourage, protect, manage and commercialize Intellectual Property such as Patent, Copyright, Trademark, etc. generated through the university.
He said that the two patents which were granted recently are design patents category for ‘Solar Water Heater’ and ‘Solar-Nanomaterial Energy Storage’.
Shoolini university has achieved another milestone as its H-Index, which is based on the quality of research, has moved up to 55. It is not only the highest among the universities in the state but is among the best in the region.
H-Index reflects the output based on the number of research publications and the total number of citations of those works. There are certain quantifiable parameters to define the quality of research and H-Index is one of them.
An H-index 55 indicates that 55 research papers of the University scholars have been cited 55 times or more. The quality of every research paper is counted upon two factors: the first one being the impact related to the journal in which the paper is published and the second being the relevancy of the paper for the scientific society. These researches are very relevant for scientific as well as general society.
