Intellectual Property Facilitation Centre (IPFC)

The Intellectual Property Facilitation Centre at GNITC was established under the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises. It is the part of the campus most clearly open to people with no connection to the institute, and it runs as an ongoing service rather than a cohort.

What you get

• Patentability assessment and prior-art search, technical help drafting a specification, filing provisional and complete applications, and support through examination, prosecution and grant, with coordination with patent offices and attorneys.
• Trademark search and conflict analysis, guidance on brand names and logos, filing, responses to objections and examination reports, and advice on renewal and enforcement.
• Copyright registration for written, artistic, software, research and creative work, with guidance on ownership, licensing and transfer.
• Industrial design filings, and geographical indication guidance and applications for region-specific products, including work with producer groups and artisans.
• Workshops, seminars and training on intellectual property rights.

Who can apply

• Micro, small and medium enterprises, which the centre names as its core group.
• Startups, and individual inventors and innovators.
• Educational and research institutions, IP professionals and government agencies.

How to apply: no contact route is published for the centre. Write to the campus and ask to be put in touch with the facilitation centre. An activity report for 2024-25 is published on its page.