Dear Dr. Poluru,

Scholars interested in patenting their work can at least file a provisional application before submitting their thesis. They can file a more refined application (the complete specification) within 12 months from the date of filing of provisional application. Novelty will not be lost. Filing a provisional application is very simple and can be filed by the scholars themselves without incurring much cost. They may even chose to publish articles coming out of their thesis without losing the novelty of their idea once a prov appln has been filed. It must also be kept in mind that presentation of the work in seminar/conferences will also be novelty destroying if done before filing the application for patent, although there are few exceptions.

Regards
S.A.A. Bukhari
Sr. Executive IPR
Shantha Biotechnics

On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:12:58 +0530 wrote
>Dear Professional Colleagues,
>
>Hosting full text M.Phil/Ph.D. theses is a dream coming true for Librarians. This move will no doubt have a lot of impact on accessibility, quality of research, and avoiding duplication of research, but what if some scholars want to publish their work after submitting their theses, especially if they want to patent their work. In that case how can they submit their theses within 30 days period?
>
>Can experts provide any solution to this problem? If so, please write your views.
>
>With Kind Regards,
>
>
>
>Dr. Lalitha Poluru
>Librarian
>Institute of Pharmacy
>Nirma University, S.G. Highway,
>Ahmedabad -382 481, Gujarat, India.
>Ph. +91-2717-241900/01/02/03/04, Extn: 731,
>(M) 09879333705, Fax: +91-2717-241916,
>Email: lalitha.poluru@nirmauni.ac.in, Website: www.nirmauni.ac.in
>
>--- On Wed, 7/22/09, J. K. Vijayakumar wrote:
>
>
>From: J. K. Vijayakumar
>Subject: [LIS-Forum] UGC opts INFLIBNET to host National PhD Theses Repository
>To: lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in, digilib_india@yahoogroups.com, corporatelibrns@yahoogroups.com
>Date: Wednesday, July 22, 2009, 5:53 PM
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>
>
>UGC (Minimum Standards and Procedure for Award of M.Phil/Ph.D Degree), Regulation, 2009 (Link http://www.ugc.ac.in/policy/notificationmphilphd.pdf)
>
>Dear Professionals,
>
>As per this new regulation;
>"Following successful completion of evaluation process and announcements of the award of Mphil/Phd, the University shall submit a softcopy of MPhil/PhD thesis to UGC within period of 30 days for hosting the same in INFLIBNET, accessible to all Institutions/universities"
>
>Hopefully we can see the Full-Text theses at
>http://indcat.inflibnet.ac.in/indcat/thesis.jsp very soon.
>
>This is the right move from UGC, which will help in wide access to Indoan PhD literature, which will indirectly increase the quality of Research and avoid duplications in research.
>
>Regards,
>
>Dr. J K Vijayakumar
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