This document discusses using intellectual property (IP) audits to enhance a company or institution's IP and patent portfolio. It provides examples of IP audits conducted for various organizations, including multinational corporations, small and medium enterprises, and educational institutions. The audits identified potential inventions, patents, and other IP that were not previously protected. This demonstrated how IP audits can be a useful tool to uncover existing IP assets and identify opportunities to strengthen an organization's IP portfolio.

1. Enhancing IP/Patent
Quantity/Quality
IP Audit/Mining as a Tool
By
Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala
BananaIP - www.bananaip.com
kalyan@bananaip.com
Books: www.kalyankankanala.com
Blog: www.bananaip.com/sinapse-blog

2. Just One Layer
Protection and
Risk Mitigation
IP can Add Value,
provided an
organization wants
it to add value
OTHERS
IP
BUSINESS

3. Increasing IP/Patent Numbers
• What works?
• Awareness/Training
• Culture/Hygiene
• Policy/Process
• Incentive System
• IP Audit/Mining

4. Results
Audits so far--107
 Large Companies – 36
 SMEs – 62
 Educational/Research
Institutes - 9

5. MNC 1
Example 1
 Savvy IP filer well known for its products in
heating, ventilation and air conditioning
 Uses IP very efficiently and effectively in
business
 Indian arm - Inventive work, but IP
productivity was low
 Performed an IP Audit

6. Example 1
 Uncovered - 208 potential inventions
Filed – 56
 Amended the policy to smoothen out rough
edges
 Invention disclosures increased by two
hundred percent

7. MNC 2
 Large electronics manufacturing
company
 Was seeking investment and keen on
showing IP to investors
 Performed IP Audit
 Potential inventions - 89
 Patents filed - 1
 Policy/Process - Does not exist even after
audit
Example 2

8. Example 3
SMEs - UNIDO Cluster
IP Audits for Machine tools and Plastics industries
90
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
0 Protectable
Protected
10
Patents
Designs
Trademarks
Copyrights
Protected
Protectable

9. Example 4
 Premier Educational/Research Institution was
seeking to sensitize professors, change culture,
improve filings and increase commercialization
proceeds
 Chose IP Audit as a tool
 Potential IP - 40
 Filed - 0
 Policy/Process recommendations -
Implementing now after 7 long years

10. Example 5
• A large food products company
• Had more than 1200 trade marks
• Fighting several litigations
• Wanted to put its files in order
• An Audit was performed
• More than 600 files corrected
• Process set up for efficient management

11. IP Audit as a Tool
IP
Inventory
Mining
Best
Practices

12. PIRATES OF BOLLYWOOD
A Legal Thriller around film production, Piracy
and Organized Crime.
Review
" . This copyright law fiction has project piracy as
its lodestar, and this book indeed has all the
makings of (dare I say) a Bollywood
Masala movie, albeit with the only difference that
the author casts his mojo by interweaving the legal
aspects of the copyright law debate within its
theatrical setting of Bollywood in Mumbai. ... “
For details: www.kalyankankanala.com
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13. ROAD HUMPS AND
SIDEWALKS
• A Tale of Patents, Drugs, Health Care and
Greed
• “A blind lawyer, a virus outbreak, a dog
that dreams and a patent infringement
case. Dr. Kalyan Kankanala’s debut
fiction, Road Humps and Sidewalks: The
Path less travelled is an engrossing fast-paced
legal thriller”
- The Hindu
• For details: www.kalyankankanala.com
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14. FUN IP
– Fun IP makes intellectual property learning
fun, and enjoyable.
– Some Reviews
– "Written in a very easy to understand
language, FUN IP is anexcellent book for
those not well versed in IP."
– - Journal of IPR
– "While comprehensive treatment of even a
single subject covered by Fun IP would
require many volumes, this book does
provide a good overview of all the types of
intellectual property protection. "
- Patent Baristas
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15. THANK YOU.
Blog: www.bananaip.com/sinapse-blog
kalyan@bananaip.com