Department for Promotion of Industries and Internal Trade (DPIIT), Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India, launched a Scheme for Pedagogy & Research in IPRs for Holistic Education & Academia (SPRIHA) in the year 2016 under which IPR Chairs have been set up in select universities and academic institutes. This was in accordance National IPR Policy launched by the Government of India in 2016, which proclaims, as one of the objectives under section 7.2 as, “Strengthen IP Chairs in educational institutes of higher learning to provide quality teaching and research, develop teaching capacity and curricula and evaluate their work on performance based criteria."
MNLU Mumbai has been selected by the DPIIT as one of the 12 universities/organizations for setting up IPR Chairs in the country.
DPIIT has formulated the norms for establishing and functioning of the IPR Chair under SPRIHA. Accordingly, the University has appointed Dr. W. M. Dhumane, Former Senior Joint Controller of Patents and Designs as IPR Chair Professor with effect from 10th June 2020.
The objectives for creation and institution of IPR Chairs under SPRIHA are to encourage the study of, education in and research on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR),as well as to promote outreach in IPRs, as elaborated below:
Mrs. Uma Bhattad is an Intellectual Property Rights Specialist . She has an overall experience of twenty five years in both academia and practice in the field of IPR. She obtained her LLM from erstwhile Pune University , specialising in Intellectual Property Rights. Her career began as a lecturer at NBT Law College in Nashik, where she pioneered in teaching IPR subject for LLB and B.A. LLB courses. After seven years in Academia, she moved on to Practice IPR. After a short stint with the Trademarks Registry as an Examiner of Trademarks at Mumbai, she qualified the Indian Patent Agent Exam and joined " Krishna & Saurastri Associates " a law firm in Mumbai. Here she headed the filing department. Her role included overseeing matters relating to patenting such as compliances, advising clients, giving strategic opinions, prosecuting Patent Applications , etc. Having gained expertise in Patents at the law firm, to increase her horizon of practice in other domains of IPR she embarked on a journey of consultancy in IPR. For the past ten years she has built a clientele of MSMEs, Students, Institutes, Industry etc., to whom she assisted in securing their IPRs such as Patents, Designs, Trademarks and Copyrights. She also gave strategic advise on IPR protection, giving opinion on registrability of various IPRs, conducting searches, giving infringement and freedom to operate opinions and overall IP Management etc. She has been invited as a speaker for IPR at various colleges and Forums. She is empanelled as an IP facilitator with the DPIIT under the SIPP scheme of the Govt.of India.
Contact Details
iprchair@mnlumumbai.edu.in| uma.bhattad@mnlumumbai.edu.in
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