UNAIR NEWS 51 is hoping that 2017 academic year will bring several dozen potential lecturers research products to gain patent rights and other intellectual property rights. From 300 researches, 270 are product oriented (patent), and 75 candidates of them are potential to bring downstream. From these potential candidates indeed, 32 researches of them are expected to gain patent rights this year.
Therefore it will add the number in applied patent registration list which reaches 90 patents so far, said the Chief of Academic Products Development and Intellectual Property Rights Institute (LPPA-HKI) 51, Prof. Dr. Sukardiman, MS., Apt.
In order to reach the target, LPPA-HKI held an Intellectual Property Management and Patent Drafting Workshop at Kahuripan Hall, Administration Building, Campus C UNAIR Jl. Mulyorejo Surabaya, Monday (13/2). This event was opened by the Vice Rector IV Junaidi Khotib, S.Si., M.Kes., Ph.D., M.Sc.
In the workshop which was attended by about 200 UNAIR lecturers and researchers, LPPA-HKI presented two keynote speakers namely the Director of Intellectual Property Management at the Ministry of Research, Technology, and Higher Education Dr. Sadjuga, M.Sc.; and the Director of Patent, Integrated Circuit Layout Design, Trade Secret at the Directorate General of Intellectual Property, Dr. Mercy Marvel, SH., M.Si.
Added by Prof. Sukadirman, from this workshop about Intellectual Property Rights and Patent Rights at UNAIR, an assistance and mediation stage will be following in the not too distant future, particularly for several researchers who have applied for patent certification but not received it yet.
Meanwhile the Vice Rector IV of UNAIR, Junaidi Khotib, in his speech said that gaining patent, either as institution or individual, will support the university holding program, because that means the research results will soon be brought downstream, can be industrially utilized, and finally benefit the people, particularly researches which affect humanity.
When a research result is applied for copyright or patent right, it gives no benefit yet indeed. But in a long term after gaining patent right, it will give economic benefit either to individual or institution, said the lecturer of the Faculty of Pharmacy UNAIR.
As in the case of a lot of prominent universities in the world, about 75% of their education fund comes from academic products and patents. In this case, the downstream benefit as the final part of the research can be an education fund source for the institution, which later will help finance the students.
While for universities, relatively independent fund availability will greatly enable them to choose high quality candidates. of high quality will also enable them to attain better positive effects.
In his dissemination Dr. Sadjuga, M.Sc. also explained that the average of patent applicants in Indonesia is ranging from 700 to 800 every year. Therefore the benefit from these patents can also be state revenue other than taxes. The more researchers and product inventors who apply for their intellectual rights mean the more children of the nation who will benefit from the products of Intellectual Property Rights/Patents.
Law No. 13 of 2016 regarding Patent gives the people a big opportunity to gain patent rights, said Sadjuga, while delivering details on research products which can be applied for patents, trademarks, copy rights, and other intellectual rights; whether they are science works, books, new software inventions, products, etc.
Dr. Mercy Marvel, SH., M.Si. as a legal expert also presented the technical procedures and requirements to researchers who will apply for patent rights and other intellectual rights.
Our country is immensely rich and has impressive natural resources potentials, whether cultural, tourism, agricultural produces, etc. Therefore the government will manage and wont easily let those potentials go, said Dr. Marvel. (*)
Author: Bambang Bes
