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I met Vibhur after about 2 years since he did his post-graduation (M.Pharm).
"Where are you now, Vibhur"
"Sir, I am in the US, working in a leading University"
"Working? You were never interested in teaching!"
" Well sir, my profile is a bit different- I do not teach in the University"
" Don't teach? Then what do you do?"

Vikas was working in the Pharmaceutics division of a leading pharma research institute. He had good knowledge of patents and did a thorough search of patent databases, before planning his research project for Ph.D. After about two years of hard work, he got very interesting results, for which he duly filed a patent application in India.

Jaidev had joined a leading Pharmaceutical Research Institute in India, for his Ph.D work. He reviewed his research plan thoroughly and also searched patents. Based on discussions with his guide, he formulated a very innovative research plan, pertaining to development of a new screening method for diabetic compounds.

IPR Story 11 

Dear Friends I am presenting here a story I liked very much. This story tells you how important patents can be & how they can play a vital role in entrepreneurship. I hope you learn some good ideas from this story.

Radha was working in biotech deptt. of leading pharma institute. She was working on a new pathological strain of tuberculosis which refused to grow in lab using existing media. Despite best R&D efforts, the organism could not be cultured in the lab, which affected the drug discovery program and slowed down the efforts for finding suitable medicine against it.

IPR Story 7 

Anil was a researcher working under Dr. Subhash, the incharge of the Pharmaceutical laboratory. The laboratory was a part of a big institute and was bound to work as per the rules & regulations laid down by the Institute. One day Dr. Subhash got a project for Anil which was sponsored by a Pharmaceutical company. The project had a good value and was important for the industry.

IPR story-6 : Product patents vs process patents

Rahul had just started his M.Pharm Program. He had done a course on IPRs and had some working knowledge of IPRS. He started working on a new molecule on diabetes and worked on its synthesis for nearly six months. One day while searching the patent databases, he got a shock! The molecule he had so diligently worked on had already been synthesized and duly patented. It was not a new molecule at all. He was very disappointed and disillusioned. Anyway, he downloaded the full patent and started reading it. Soon he was smiling again. He went to his guide, they discussed and soon Rahul and his guide had filed a process patent. What had happened?