Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 13: Chandigarh University Gharuan has emerged as top stand-alone university in India for filling highest number of 336 patents in a year.
The annual rankings for the year 2018-19 was recently released by Office of Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trademarks, Government of India which comprises of Academic Institutions and Multinational Companies.
As per the Intellectual Property India annual report released by Government of India, in the overall patents filing category, 27 Indian Institute of Technology (IITs) have collectively filed 557 patents and are leading the table but with 336 patents filed in a year, Chandigarh University Gharuan has emerged as the leading stand-alone institution to file highest number of patents which is followed by Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) with 239 patent applications, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) with 202 applications and Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) with 173 applications.
This information was today shared by Satnam Singh Sandhu, Chancellor, Chandigarh University during a press conference at Chandigarh.
Dr SS Sehgal, Registrar and Dr Sanjeet Singh, Dean Research of Chandigarh University were also present during the media interaction.
“In the academic institutions category, Chandigarh University Gharuan has emerged as the leading stand-alone institution while the university has been placed at second position in overall patent rankings”, said Satnam Singh Sandhu. He further added that, “In addition, with the filing of 148 patents Chandigarh University has also bagged third position in the Top 5 Indian Applicants for patents in the field of Information Technology and is just placed behind the top Indian IT Companies TCS and Wipro”.
With Chandigarh University emerging as the leading institution of India in the field of Research and Innovation, Punjab has managed to barge into rankings of the Top 10 States of India in the field of Research & Innovation for the first time in the history.
“Now that we have filed 779 patents, Chandigarh University is moving into next level where the University will be holding International Investors Summit within next 2-3 months at its campus to provide the young innovators a platform where they can pitch their ideas to the angel investors from all over the world to attract funding for the commercialization of the projects and coverting ideas into real time services and technologies for the society and mankind” added Satnam Singh Sandhu.
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