The Intellectual Property Facilitation Centre (IPFC) at Chalapathi Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (CLPT), established under the Ministry of MSMEs, Government of India, is a strategic initiative to reinforce the intellectual property (IP) ecosystem for MSMEs, startups, and academia.
Focused on the pharmaceutical and life sciences sectors, CLPT-IPFC provides comprehensive support across the IP lifecycle—including identification, protection, and commercialization. The Centre functions as a knowledge and service hub, promoting IP literacy and enabling stakeholders to effectively secure and monetize their innovations.
Years of Experience
Patent & IP Filing Services:
IP Awareness & Capacity Building
IPR Enforcement and Strategic Commercialization
Comprehensive IP Services
the Centre promotes strategic IP utilization by facilitating connections between inventors and potential industry collaborators, thereby enhancing the commercial value and socio-economic impact of protected innovations. Special emphasis is placed on strengthening IP enforcement and awareness in underserved and rural regions of Andhra Pradesh.
Patent search, drafting, and filing
Trademark registration
Copyright protection
Design applications
Geographical Indication (GI) pilot study
Awareness seminars and workshops
Boot camps and hands-on training
Certification programs on IPR and innovation management
IPFC offers integrated, end-to-end IP services tailored to the specific requirements of MSMEs, startups, researchers, and academic innovators. It supports the entire IP lifecycle—covering ideation, identification, protection, enforcement, and commercialization.
The Centre enables the recognition of latent intellectual assets within innovations and facilitates their protection through appropriate IPR mechanisms, including patents, industrial designs, trademarks, and trade secrets.
IPFC centre offers comprehensive support in intellectual property protection through:
To foster a robust innovation ecosystem, the Centre conducts structured IP knowledge dissemination and skill development activities, including
Centre (IPFC) provides critical support for the legal enforcement of intellectual property rights, ensuring that MSMEs, startups, and academic innovators are equipped to safeguard their innovations against infringement.
Key enforcement services include:
Intellectual Property Facilitation Centre (IPFC) is strategically established to catalyze a robust intellectual property (IP) ecosystem, particularly catering to the needs of Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), startups, and academic innovators. The key aims and objectives of the CLPT-IPFC are outlined as follows:
To facilitate end-to-end IP protection for MSMEs, enabling them to secure, manage, and commercialize their innovations through patent drafting, filing, prosecution, and legal support services.
To assist startups in transforming innovative concepts into protected intellectual assets, empowering them to leverage IP for business competitiveness, funding, and market entry.
To foster a culture of innovation and IP awareness among students and faculty, encouraging ideation, design thinking, and translational research through structured mentoring and capacity-building programs.
To promote a knowledge-driven innovation ecosystem by organizing targeted IP outreach campaigns, sensitization workshops, and technical training sessions aligned with national and international IP frameworks.
To integrate CLPT-IPFC with government and industry-supported MSME innovation schemes, offering co-development, incubation, and technology transfer opportunities that accelerate commercialization and societal impact.
To empower the next generation of IP-literate entrepreneurs and researchers, by providing sustained guidance in IP strategy, valuation, licensing, and enforcement.
To serve as a regional innovation catalyst, enhancing the institute’s role as a hub for IP-intensive research, academic-industry collaboration, and policy-driven IP facilitation.
To create a robust, IP-driven innovation ecosystem that accelerates scientific and technological progress, especially within the pharmaceutical sciences and allied life science sectors, while contributing to regional and national economic development.
The mission of the Intellectual Property Facilitation Centre (IPFC) is to empower MSMEs across all sectors, especially in health and pharmaceuticals, by offering comprehensive IP support in protection, management, and commercialization, leveraging advanced infrastructure, expert guidance, and industry-academia collaboration to drive innovation, enhance regulatory compliance, and promote sustainable growth, with a focus on health-related technologies and pharmaceutical formulations.
The Intellectual Property Facilitation Centre (IPFC) at Chalapathi Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences will be a comprehensive hub for IP-related services, offering patent searching, filing, and prosecution, as well as trademark and design registrations, and support for commercialization and geographical indications.