IIT-Madras Granted Record High International, Domestic Patents In 2023; Double From Last Year’s Tally

In a remarkable achievement, the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras has been granted a record high of 300 patents in the year 2023, doubling the number of patents the institute received in the previous year.

Additionally, the number of international patents filed, including those granted under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), also recorded a significant increase, rising to 105 during 2023 from 58 in 2022, officials said.

They said that IIT- Madras has already filed as many as 226 patents during the current fiscal (as of December), including 163 Indian patents and 63 international patents applications (including PCT).

Over 2,500 patents filed by IIT-Madras since 1975

Since the inception of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Madras, a total of about 2,550 intellectual property (IP), including patent, applications have been filed, both in India (1,800) and abroad (750) so far, of which about 1,100 are registered IPs or granted patents (about 900 Indian and 200 international).

“It is a matter of pride for IIT-Madras that it had started filing patent applications as early as January 1975 (granted in May 1977). The total number of IP applications filed crossed 1,000 in 2016, 2,000 in 2022 and 2,500 in 2023. As we march towards our 100th year of Independence, for Bharat to become a superpower it is very important to protect our ideas,”IIT-Madras Director V Kamakoti said in a statement.

IIT-Madras generating IPs in advanced sciences

Kamakoti revealed that researchers at IIT-Madras are proactively generating IP in domains such as wireless networks, advanced materials, robotics, additive manufacturing technology, engine advancements, assistive devices, advanced sensor applications, clean energy, aerospace applications, polymer material and thin films, catalysts, and biomedical applications, among many other emerging technologies.