INVENTION DISCLOSURE FORM

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INVENTION DISCLOSURE FORM

Full Name

Contact Number

Title of the Invention/Research Project (Not more than 10 words)

Name, address, designation and email id of the inventor/inventors. List them.

Name, address, designation and email id of the applicant/applicants. List them.

Whether inventor and the applicant is the same person/company?

What problem the invention solves?

Which field does the invention belong to? Example: Chemical, Pharma, Mechanical, etc…

Is the invention already publicly disclosed in any forms of publication?

Is the invention, a product or a process?

Have the proposed patent applicant entered into any non-disclosure agreements with the R & D team, technicians and experts, testing team, etc…? Please provide copy.

What date/dates did you create the invention?

What is the stage of development of the invention from the following:

In whose laboratory notebook(s) is the experimental data for this invention recorded? List Reference numbers, if any.

What is the competitive advantage of this invention? Are you the ‘first of the kind’ in this field? Also, state the limitation in the present technology.

Is the invention developed using any research grant or aid?

Details of external collaborators who contributed to the invention : Name, Designation, Start and End Date of Collaboration, Contribution of Collaborator

Any Material Transfer Agreement (MTA) entered into for collection of materials? Please provide copy.

Have you filed any related patents or have been granted patent for a related invention?

Is the invention commonly used by the public or person skilled in the art in the present or past days?

Have you found any investor for commercializing your invented product/process? Any industry / company interested to license the invented work?

Any costing/budgeting allocated for commercializing the product?

Have you conducted any prior art search related to your invention? If yes, provide the details.

Does your invention relate to an Apparatus/Device/System; Method/Process; Formulation/Composition; or a combination of the above? Please specify.

Please provide the working of your invention.

What is the novel/new feature of your invention?

To which industry use, can this invention be applied?

Are you proposing to further research on the invented product/process to create another new product/process? Is there further course of developing on the invention?

Any sampling or testing of the invention conducted? State the results.

Any further details you would like to provide.

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