REPORT: One day workshop on “Patent Search & Analysis
Report (PSAR)” for Faculty of Pharmacy held on
28th December 2013 at GTU, Gandhinagar Campus
Center of Pharmaceutical Studies & Drug Delivery Technologies department of Gujarat
Technological University organized one day workshop on “Patent Search & Analysis Report
(PSAR)” at GTU, Gandhinagar campus on 28th December 2013, Saturday. In this workshop, 55
faculty members from 30 different pharmacy colleges affiliated to GTU participated.
The program was begun with lamp lighting by the dignitaries followed by welcome speech by Dr.
Manish A. Rachchh, Program coordinator and Associate Professor of GTU. He mentioned that
the objective of this workshop was to provide an overview and hands-on experience to faculty
members of Pharmacy on the areas of Patent Search as well as Patent Analysis. If students of M.
Pharm (Sem IV) do the study and analysis of at least 5 patents, it might increase the innovation
quotient of their work. He also mentioned that GTU has started a unique program known as
“Patent Clinic”, wherein with help of internal and external experts, GTU is providing a platform to
all students and faculty to file their provisional patent application without paying any fees to
expert.
Honb. Dr. Akshai Aggarwal sir, Vice chancellor of GTU during his presidential speech stressed
upon the need of innovation in Pharmacy education. He mentioned that currently pharmacy
education both at UG as well as PG level was not able to attract good number of students. Nearly
60% seats at UG level and PG level remained vacant this year. He said that if every College were
able to offer quality education so that its graduates were known for their competence, this situation
would not have arisen. He gave three important suggestions to the young faculty members to build
their careers in this turbulent situation.
1) Reading of scientific journals and news articles at least for 2 h in a day: This will enable
them to create an interest among students about the new developments in their fields.
Secondly as the excitement of participating in the process of generation of new ideas
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spreads out in the environment of educational institutions, they will start becoming an
institution, which offers a true university-level education.
2) Fight against spurious students: He mentioned that allowing spurious students, who are
actually not coming for full time course particularly at M .Pharm level, still down grade the
quality of the output. So it is the moral responsibility of each faculty to fight against such
practices. He said that the University always took strong action against such practices and
would continue to do so.
3) Create personal course web-site: By creating a personal web site, the faculty can share
his/her course material with their students. This will not only increase knowledge sharing
among the co-researchers but will also create brand for such faculty and the college.
The technical session started with Mr. Padmin Buch, Director, GITCO, Ahmedabad, who had
discussed about the Over view of Patent Search with special reference to Pharmaceuticals
industries and academia. Dr. Manish A. Rachchh, Program coordinator and Associate professor
of GTU, Ahmedabad, has discussed about Open source Patent search database and demonstrated
EPO (Worldwide) and IPO database online to participants with examples. Mr. Amit Patel, Project
officer-IPR, GTU, Ahmedabad has taken a session on how to prepare PSAR report and explained
about how to read patent documents and explained the context of EPO, IPO, WIPO and US
patents.
All the faculty members have actively participated in this workshop and appreciated the efforts of
GTU to bring down novelty in the M. Pharm projects.
Few suggestions and feed back of participated faculty members are as under:
“It is a good program relevant to the research projects. But preferably this should be included
during beginning of M. Pharm (Sem III) before finalization of dissertation topic.”- Prof. P.
Malairajan, Shri G. M. Bilakhia College of Pharmacy, ROFEL, Vapi.
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“Hands on training session on PSAR should be arranged for M. Pharm students along with
FDP”- Prof. B. S. Nayak, Shree Swaminarayan Sankar Pharmacy College, Zundal, Gandhinagar.
“This PSAR workshop is really useful for the M .Pharm students to increase novelty in their
projects. University should provide facility for E-journals and online paid Patent Search Database
for faculty and M. Pharm students for better literature review.” – Prof. Chirag S. Rami, Shri
Sarvajanik Pharmacy College, Mehsana.
“This is a good move to increase novelty in the research work and make it useful for society.
University should announce some appreciation scheme, for those who file their genuine patent
application. This will increase the number and quality of research and patent too.”- Prof. Harsha
Patel, Indukaka Ipcowala College of Pharmacy, New V. V. Nagar.
“PSAR is really a good move by the University. University can play a vital role in bridging gap
between Industry and Academia. University should establish I.I.I. cell, which will help M. Pharm
students and faculty to identify industry defined projects, resource materials from industry side as
well as helpful in transfer of technology to industry once it get developed.”- Prof. Dhaval Mori, B.
K. Mody Gov. Pharmacy College, Rajkot.
“This PSAR will be helpful to M. Pharm students not only for their dissertation projects but also to
get better job opportunity in the industry. For better quality of research at M. Pharm level, project
duration should be of 01 year instead of 6 months. University should provide financial assistance
to those M. Pharm students, who are working on really novel and industry applicable research
work.” – Prof. Samip Shah, Pioneer Pharmacy College, Vadodara.
Along with Dr. Manish A. Rachchh, Mr. Amit Patel, Mr. Yogesh Vaghela and Mr. Sachin
Chaudhari have put their dedicated efforts to make this workshop successful one.
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Deep pragtya (L to R): Shri Padmin Buch,
Honb. Dr. Akshai K. Aggarwal Sir, Dr.
Manish A. Rachchh, Mr. Amit Patel &
Dr. D. D. Santani
Presidential speech by Honb. Dr. Akshai
K. Aggarwal Sir (View 1)
Welcome speech by Dr. Manish A.
Rachchh
Presidential speech by Honb. Dr. Akshai
K. Aggarwal Sir (View 2)
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Mr. Padmin Buch, MD, GITCO has
delivered a session on Overview of Patent
Search
Dr. Manish A. Rachchh has conducted a
session on Patent Search using Open
source database
On behalf of GTU, Prof. D. D. Santani
sir has presented token of love to Mr.
Padmin Buch, MD, GITCO
Mr. Amitkumar Patel has delivered a
session on how to generate PSAR report
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Participants at a glance
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