LIRC@SFIT

The Learning & Information Resource Centre (LIRC) and Research & Development Cell (R&D Cell) of St. Francis Institute of Technology (SFIT) , in collaboration with RGNIIPM, Nagpur and NIPAM , successfully organized an Online Session on IPR and Patents and Design Filing on 5 August 2026 . The session witnessed an overwhelming response with 1000+ registrations , demonstrating the growing interest among students, faculty, researchers and the academic community in Intellectual Property Rights and the protection of innovations. 💡 Understanding IPR & Innovation Protection Intellectual Property Rights play a vital role in transforming ideas and research outcomes into valuable intellectual assets. The session focused on creating awareness about Intellectual Property Rights, patents and design filing , helping participants understand the importance of protecting original ideas, inventions and designs. The programme provided participants with valuable insights into the fundam...

0 Comments   99 Share IBM inventors from India earned over 800 patents – the second highest contributor to the company’s global record of 9,100 patents in the US in 2018 – with nearly half in the fields of artificial intelligence (AI), cloud computing, cyber security, blockchain and quantum computing. One of the patents filed from India went to IBM inventors Shivali Agarwal, Gaargi B Dasgupta, Shripad J Nadgowda and Tapan K Nayak, the company has said in a statement. They developed an AI-based approach for structured representation and classification of noisy and unstructured data in tickets used in service delivery. Ticket analysis helps create problem diagnostics, prediction of outages and prevention of issues in service delivery, for example for help desks. “IBM is committed to leading the way on the technologies that change the way the world works – and solving problems many people have not even thought of yet,” said Ginni Rometty, IBM Chairman, President ...