Presentation at the Open University of Sri Lanka on June 23, 2017

1. Open University of Sri Lanka
Intellectual Property -
Perspectives
Shanta R Yapa
Chief Operating Officer
Epic Research & Innovations (Pvt) Ltd

2. What is intellectual property?
• Intellectual property (IP) refers to creations of
the mind, such as inventions; literary and
artistic works; designs; and symbols, names
and images used in commerce.
WIPO
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4. How to protect IP?
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6. Are we serious about patents?
• Number of patents
• How to protect IP? Are patents mandatory?
• Open source?
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7. Top inventors 2015
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8. Who are the global leaders in 2016?
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9. Is this limited to domain experts?
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10. Do patents guarantee success?
The Kodak moment !?
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11. Do patents guarantee success?
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13. Let’s look at how Sri Lanka is
doing..
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16. Patent Cooperation Treaty
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The Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) is an
international patent law treaty, concluded in 1970. It provides a
unified procedure for filing patent applications to protect
inventions in each of its contracting states. A patent application
filed under the PCT is called an international application, or PCT
application.

17. The USA story
• 190+ universities owning 72,000+ patents and
top 6 universities own a cumulative number of
10,000 + patents
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18. Technology commercialization
statistics - example
Fiscal Year 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Disclosures 255 250 321 331 343
New U.S. Patent Filings 66 78 115 148 138
New Licenses 67 76 71 91 154
University Startups 8 9 12 14 15
Current Revenue-Generating
Agreements
399 457 426 331 429
Gross Revenues* $83.8 $10.1 $45.7
$39.4
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$27.4
Outgoing Material Transfer
Agreements
171 271 313 281 288
*Dollar amounts represented in millions
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19. Can we transform our universities?
• To create intellectual property (in the same
way graduates are produced!)
• Making number of patents a KPI
• Commercializing inventions – a top priority!
• Becoming the launch pad for start ups
• Open innovation
• Crowdsourcing initiatives
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20. Inventions Vs Innovations
• Creativity
• Inventions
• Innovations
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21. Why innovations?
Innovations bring prosperity
• Agriculture Produce and exports of USA then and now.
• Early 1900’s and early 2000’s
• Guess population involvement in agriculture.
Increased life expectancy
• Compared to early 1900s, life expectancy has gone up by 30
years in USA in 2000s!
The list will go on..
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22. Types of innovation
• Product innovations
• Process innovations
• Business model innovations
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24. Innovation types and rationale
• Incremental Vs Radical
innovation
• Disruptive innovation
• Architectural Vs Modular
innovation
• Collaborative innovation
• Open Innovation
• Social Innovation
• Reverse innovation
• LIMI Vs MIBI
• User Driven Innovation
• Outcome Driven
Innovation
• Lean innovation
• Responsible innovation
• Frugal innovation
• Jugaad innovation
• And many more including
the 10 types of innovation
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25. How to invent?
• Think gaps
• Look for overlapping areas
• Inventing patents. A new technique !
– Go to USPTO, Google or any other source
• Look at nature
• Use tools
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26. Where to invent / innovate?
• Surely not all possible things are invented.
• Look for gaps, overlapping areas, challenge
the taken for granted thinking!
• Inventing patents
- Go to USPTO, Google or any other source
• Examine national and global problems (not
necessarily connected to your domain)
• How many national problems we can think of?
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27. How to select the best?
• We do have limited resources to invent and
innovate.
• How to optimize by selecting the most
appropriate ideas/projects?
• Use the EPIC formula
– Excitement, Practicability, Impact & Cost
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28. Thank You!
Shanta R Yapa
LinkedIn: Shanta Rajapaksha Yapa
June 23, 2017

29. Resource Person
Shanta R Yapa, Chief Operating Officer of Epic Research & Innovations (Pvt) Ltd
has over 30 years of experience in diverse fields of engineering, banking, IT and
general management. He serves as a member of several boards/committees of
leading universities, local and regional industry associations and policy
authorities. He has been a visiting faculty member teaching business strategy and
technology management in postgraduate programs of 16 national and
international universities for the past 15 years. He has supervised over 200
research studies of postgraduate students.
As a visiting resource person of AITE of Asian Institute of Technology, he has
conducted management development training for public and private sector
professionals from Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam.
He is a certified innovation manager from SEPT, Leipzig University. The innovation
tautogram, a novel tool he introduced received wide publicity among leading
innovation websites.
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