Management of Intellectual Property Rights and Strategy (MIPS 2016)
3rd International Conference on Management of Intellectual Property Rights and Strategy
(MIPS 2016) was held at National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE) Mumbai from
15-16 July 2016. The conference was jointly organized by MHRD IPR Chair, IIT Bombay and
NITIE Mumbai
The theme of the conference was IP for Development: The Emerging Paradigm Over a period
of 3 days various keynotes, panel discussion, papers, poster and workshop were centered on
sub theme of the conference, driving nation’s development through IP ecosystem.
The inaugural address for the conference was given by Shri. O.P. Gupta, Controller General of
Patents Designs and Trademarks, Government of India. The key take ways from the talk was
on process and excellence in operation of patent evaluation undertaken by government. Rajeev
Srinivasan, Member, National Think Tank Policy, Government of India address the audience
by stating the capabilities of Indians to Innovative and how IP can help to maintain the edge in
businesses in this highly competitive scenario.
Three panel discussion on following topics were talk in length during the conference
 Driving nation’s competitiveness – Make in India and IP strategy for ecosystem
development
 Digital India – Role of IP in digital competitiveness
 Negotiating India’s IP policy
Three keynotes on issues surrounding IP and its role in countries development agenda was
also discussed
 India’s IP and Economy Policy by Prof. A Damodaran, IIM- Bangalore
 Biological Resources, Agriculture, Intellectual Property and Development: From
Biodiversity to Bio economy by Dr. S Mauria from Indian Council for Agricultural
Research
 Role of IP in Electronic and Information Technology industry by Dr. A K Garg, Add.
Commissioner, DeiTY, Govt. of India.
In total 30 papers were presented ranging across MELT (Management, Economics, Legal and
Technology) areas. From this pool of papers each paper from student and other category was
awarded given best paper award with a 3D printed memento of IPR chair done at AMCE,
NITIE and a cash prize of 15000/- INR
Student category
Measuring Research Efficiency of higher academic premier technical institutions of India: A
data Envelopment analysis based Malmquist Productivity Index Approach by Akriti Jain,
IIT-Delhi
Others Category
Secondary patents: Portfolio building or Evergreening? Presented by Saritha Kiran and
Mohan Kulkarni, URDIP-CSIR, Pune
This year saw the genesis of the poster competition on patent analytics, thanks to Relecurathe sponsor for the competition
Winners for the Patent Analytics competition
Poster titled Innovations in Modern Biotechnology in India by Kashmira Parihar, Parchitee
and Dr. (Mrs.) Manasi Telang, URDIP-CSIR, Pune,bagged first prize of Rs. 10000/- and a
memento.
Poster titled “Indian and Global Food Processing Companies in India: Patent
Informatics & Analysis” by Rohit Sood, NITIE, bagged second prize of rupees 5000/- and a
memento.
3rd International Conference on Management of Intellectual Property Rights &
Strategy
15-16 July 2016, NITIE, Mumbai
Inaugural of MIPS 2016, at NITIE, Mumbai
(L to R – Prof. Shishir Kumar Jha (Conference Co-Chair, IITB) Shri Rajeev Srinivasan, (Member, National Think Tank Policy,
Government of India), Prof. (Ms). Karuna Jain (Director, NITIE), Shri. O.P.Gupta (Controller General of Patent Designs and
Trademarks, Government of India), Prof. A Damodaran (IIM- B), Prof. Mukundan R (Conference Co-Chair, NITIE)
Inaugral Address by Shri. O. P. Gupta
MIPS Proceeding release by dignitaries on Dais
Get-together for Group Photo at NITIE lawn
Panel discussion: - Driving nation’s competitiveness - Make in India and IP strategy for
ecosystem development
(L to R – Dr. Vijay Paranjape, (Sathguru Management Consultants), Ms. Jaya Murthy (Eaton India), Dr. Raj
Hirwani (Director, URDIP- CSIR), Dr, Aravind Chinchure ( Symbiosis, Pune) & Prof Ashok K Pundir (Dean
Students Affair’s and Placement, NITIE)
Genesis of Poster competition in MIPS 2016
Invited paper presented during the conference
Panel discussion – Digital India – Role of IP in digital competitiveness
(L to R: - JD Sanjeeth Hegde, (Banana IP), Ms. Chitra Iyer (Head of IP&S at Philips-India), Dr. Neil Wilkof, (Bresseler Group,
Israel), Prof. Shishir K Jha ( IIT-Bombay)
Heartily congratulation to Winners of Best paper and Best Poster in MIPS 2016
Best Paper award in Non-Student
category from URDIP CSIR, Pune
Presented by Dr. A K Garg
Best Paper award in Student
category, Akriti Jain, IIT-Delhi
1st Prize in Poster competition on
patent analytics winners from
URDIP CSIR, Pune
2nd Prize in Poster competition on
patent analytics to Mr. Rohit Sood,
NITIE
MIPS
2016
3D3D 3D Printed IPR Chair logo ,
Memento @AMCE, NITIE