Tamil Nadu Intellectual Property Facilitation centre has been set up by the Entrepreneurship Development Innovation Institute, Department of Micro Small Medium Enterprises, Government of Tamil Nadu in 2001 to boost up the growth of Entrepreneurship and Innovation of the state.

The major objective of the centre is to spread awareness about the importance of Intellectual Property Rights among School & college students, Innovation voucher programme & MSMEs, to cater the IPR needs of the state so as to create a strong IPR base in the state. To enhance the quality of Research and Development to provide mentoring and legal assistance and to increase the number of Intellectual Property Registration from the state.

Objective

• Provide guidance and support in the filing and protection of intellectual property rights (IPR), including patents, copyrights, trademarks, and designs.
• Assist in the commercialization and licensing of intellectual property.
• Conduct awareness programs and training sessions to enhance knowledge about intellectual property laws and processes.
• Facilitate collaboration between inventors, innovators, and relevant legal or government bodies for the protection of IP.

Services provided by the Centre

• Organising general awareness as well as on specific issues on IPR including patents, copyrights, industrial designs, trademarks, among EDII beneficiaries, school, Colleges and MSMEs
• Facilitating EDII beneficiaries & MSMEs and grass-root innovators for patent searches and patent filing; Copyrights, Industrial Designs, trademarks, etc.
• Filling applications at Indian Patent Office (IPO)

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