Kurukshetra:
Kurukshetra University (KU) has been granted two patents by the Patent Office, Government of India in the month of April.
“Carboxymethycellulose Ester Based Drug Delivery System” and “Apoptosis Inducing Composition Compromising Triazolothiazolyl-Triazole Derivative of Benzene” are the two patents granted to KU, said an official of KU. KU has now 22 number of patents granted till date.
KU vice chancellor Prof Som Nath congratulated the research group and said, “We have taken a number of measures to boost research at KU in the form of incentives to researches, honouring researches, facilitating patent filing through a patent expert, single window express approval for project filing, established incubation, start up and innovation centres and improving quality of research publications.”
Prof Som Nath further said that KU has appointed Prof Ramesh Kumar Mehta, an alumnus of KU, as an honorary Professor of IPR & Technology Transfer. Prof Mehta has played an important role in providing expertise and assistance to the faculty members in filing patents without charging any fee from the University.