Intellectual protection

The Institute helps you protect your contributions to science and technology through the following services:

· Advice on the intellectual property protection process of the developments generated at the IPN, through the different figures: patents, utility models, copyrights, industrial designs, trademarks, plant varieties and layout designs of integrated circuits.

· Training on intellectual protection issues to the IPN community through conferences and workshops, request a talk at the following e-mail address: cpatentamiento@ipn.mx

Why protect your invention?

You obtain the exclusive rights of use and exploitation before the IMPI, otherwise it will be of public use and domain.

What can I protect?

Farmers and growers need plants that are adapted to the environment in which they are grown and suited to the cultivation practices used. Therefore, farmers and growers use a more precisely defined group of plants, selected from within a species, called a "plant variety". A plant variety is a grouping of plants of a single botanical taxon of the lowest known rank that can be recognized by its characteristics, clearly distinct from those of any other variety, and which will remain unchanged through the process of propagation.

Requirements

To start the protection process it is necessary to define the best intellectual property figure for your development, therefore, it is necessary to perform a background search, for which you need:

a) A letter addressed to the Directorate of Business Services and Technology Transfer requesting the search of technological antecedents of the invention called: "title of the invention", as well as indicating the name of the inventors. b) A summary of the development of maximum 3 pages where the novelty of the same is indicated, and it must contain the following points:

  1. Description of the invention: prototype, process, system, machine formulation.
  2. Problem it solves.
  3. How it solves the problem, elements that make it up, stages to carry out the process, conditions, or technical characteristics of the development.
  4. Photographs or technical drawings.
  5. Keywords related to your invention in English and Spanish.

Once the protection figure (patent, utility model or design) has been established, the corresponding descriptive report is prepared and the necessary documentation to continue with the process can be requested from the specialist of the Patent Center, the IPN Unit of Social Integration or the Graduate and Integration Studies Section of your school or center.

State of the art search request form

Summary of the invention

It is the recognition granted by the State on an intellectual creation, such as: software, mobile applications, books, videos.

Requirements:

a) Letter on letterhead, signed by the Director of the IPN Unit, Head of: UPIS, Academy or Section of Graduate Studies and Research.

b) Three letters of acknowledgment of rights from each author, with full name, no abbreviations and autograph signature:

c) Additional sheet in duplicate, indicating:

d) Three copies of the work on CD, labeled only with the title of the work and full name of the authors, without abbreviations and without any kind of logo.

Computer programs and systems

a) Two CD's with the complete source code in a PDF or Word file. The first page of the file must be a cover page with the title of the work and the name of the authors, without shields, logos, or images of any kind.

  • The PDF to Word file should be titled: Source code "Title of the work".

b) A third CD that must contain:

  • For computer programs: source code and the folder with the executable and indicate if it is necessary to have a special platform to run the program.
  • For computer systems: ascending list of the programs that make up the system source code and the folder with the executable and indicate if it is necessary to have a special platform to run the program.
  • The folder should be titled: "Title of the work".

Literary work

a) Three DC's with the work of a PDF or Word file, the first page of the file must make a cover page with the title of the work and the name of the authors, without coats of arms, logos or images of any kind. The PDF or Word file must be titled as the work.

Database

a) Three CDs with the work in a PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Access file, the first page of the file must be a cover page with the title of the work and the name of the authors without shields, logos or images.

  • The PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Access file should be titled as the work.

Note:

  • Label the CD's only with the name of the authors and title of the work.
  • For other types of work, please contact the IPN Patent Center.

b) Deposit slip in original and two copies, (can be made at any banking institution with the help sheet, which can be requested at extension 57014).

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c) Two copies of proof of payments and perceptions of IPN employees.

They are inventions related to processes, chemical formulations, materials, machines, devices, among others. To determine the corresponding protection figure, it is necessary to perform a technological background search, learn about the requirements here.

Note: In all the documentation, the name of the authors and title of the work must be the same, the formats must not be altered or modified and only add the fields underlined, in blue letters or in white, since any modification delays the registration process before INDAUTOR.

d) Author identification form, in duplicate.

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In case the biological material is not known and is part of a patent application, storage in a culture collection should be requested.

Deposit of biological material

In case the biological material is not known and is part of a patent application, storage in a culture collection should be requested.

Intellectual property conferences and workshops

To promote the culture of intellectual protection and technology transfer in the IPN community, you can request a conference, lecture, or workshop through:

a) Letter or mail addressed to the Dirección de Servicios Empresariales y Transferencia Tecnológica, dsett@ipn.mx, indicating the day, time, to whom it will be addressed and the approximate number of people.

Contact Us

IPN Patent Center Tel: 55 5729 6000 ext. 57024

cpatentamiento@ipn.mx

gdpacheco@ipn.mx