With a focus on generating new invention communications, the program's results include expanding the dissemination of intellectual property culture
In the month of May, the Unicamp Innovation Agency launched an unprecedented mentoring program in Intellectual Property (IP), with the aim of guiding postgraduate students at the Campinas State University (Unicamp) to protect the results of your research. The mentoring sessions were carried out with 25 students, involving students from 14 of Unicamp's 24 Teaching and Research Units. “The initial objective of the Mentoring Program was to identify research recently completed or in the process of completion, with results applicable to the industry, in order to encourage inventors to communicate their invention with a view to obtaining a patent. But we achieved results beyond communications, as the Program also expanded the dissemination of the culture of intellectual property among students from different units at Unicamp and generated very specific guidance for each student and for each project”, explains Raquel Barbosa, director of Intellectual Property at Innova Unicamp.
The program was launched after the Webinar Intellectual property in postgraduate studies: strategy, concepts and tools, organized by Inova, which took place on April 26th. The event, in addition to bringing concepts about intellectual property and a mini course on intellectual property search tools, also guided listeners to participate in mentoring. “I came to the mentoring program through the webinar and it went beyond my expectations. I went without pretensions and during the mentoring process they already knew how to tell me about the potential of my research and the guidelines for proceeding with the patent application. I didn’t imagine it would be so fast”, says Marcela Noronha, PhD from Unicamp and one of the program’s mentees.
Noronha recently defended her doctoral thesis in Architecture and Urbanism and was one of four people who received mentoring and discovered that her research could become a patent. “In architecture we didn’t have this patent culture. I knew this possibility existed, but I didn't understand that my research could become one. It was during the webinar that I realized I should talk to someone about the possibility of patenting my research”, says the researcher.
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