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• IP Search Facility and Electronic IPR Register System : This facility has been established with the help of DIALOG of USA, which has an extensive collection of world wide information sources, providing access to more than 450 databases covering millions of documents form scientific and technical literature, journals etc.

IP Search Facility Electronic IPR Register System

• Project Note Book : This project note book has been designed the best practices observed in the Companies, where IP policies have been effectively implemented.

 

• IP Policy : under management’s approval

• A surge in the number of IPR at
TATA STEEL :

By adopting above mentioned steps the number of IPR in TATA STEEL has been increased by many folds as shown in the Fig.

B K Bhuyan, is Sr. Manager Patent, Research and Development Division, Tata Steel Limited. He is also Secretary, Team IP, Tata Steel Limited. A B.Com with Law, he joined Tata Steel Limited in 1980. Since then he has held various positions in the Company as is at present handling IPR Activities.

 

 

Debashish Bhattacharjee, is the Chief of R&D and Scientific Services Division of Tata Steel. He joined Tata Steel in 1996 after completing his PhD from the University of Cambridge, UK, and carried out post doctoral research with Rolls Royce University Technology Centre in Cambridge. Between 1996 and 2001 he worked in R&D, Process Metallurgy Group and Technical Services Flat Products. After a second post doctoral at the University of Birmingham between 2001 and 2002, he returned to Tata Steel as Chief R&D and took up his current responsibilities in 2003. Dr Bhattacharjee has more than 30 international publications and has 5 patents, along with his colleagues, from his work in Tata Steel in the areas of products, coatings and hydrogen harvesting. He was awarded the Metallurgist of Year Award by the Ministry of Steel in 2004. He is also an AICTE-INAE Distinguished Visiting Professor at Bengal Engineering and Science University. Recently, the Institution of Engineers awarded him a plaque in recognition of his contribution to the field of Metallurgy and Materials Science.