CSIR-URDIP

ABOUT US

India's Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has a specialized service Unit for Research and Development of Information Products (URDIP) which is involved in the pre-research and pre-development phase of the research projects, by providing intellectual property and techno-commercial information services.

URDIP provides value added information services to wide array of clients including start-up companies, SMEs, Research Institutes within and outside CSIR, large Indian Corporate and Multinational Corporations. Its primary clients include R&D, legal, new business development and multi-functional corporate teams.

SERVICES

{CSIR-URDIP Provides Value Added Information Services And Trainings In The Following Areas}

PATINFORMATICS

Patent landscaping: state-of-the-art searches

Patent trends and technology analysis

Competitive intelligence: competitor/ industry technology profiling

Current technology alerts and patent updates

Licensing-in/Licensing-out opportunities

Tracking patent-to-products and market surveillance

Research planning: patent mapping, identification of white space

New product development studies

Patents on actives and formulations

Human resource management in R&D: inventor identification and analysis of patent portfolios

New venture evaluation- diversification evaluation/technology or business acquisition/mergers

TOXINFORMATICS

Search of publicly available Open Access and value-added paid databases

Analysis of the available literature for biological and chemical safety data

Make a preliminary judgement about safety, preparation of toxicology assessment reports

Early screening out of candidate molecules based on available data, thus avoiding expensive time-consuming safety studies

Identify data gaps for safe-appearing molecules

Support services for the new chemical Notification/Registration

Preparation of dossiers for regulatory agencies

PHYTOINFORMATICS

Search documented knowledge to identify active herbs for intended benefit

Study commercially available product formulations

Search scientific literature on chemical, biological, and medicinal properties of shortlisted herbs

Identify mechanism of action of various plants or constituents

Search and evaluate clinical, toxicological and regulatory information

Scan patent literature for inventive ideas on products and technologies

CHEMINFORMATICS

Structure searchable web-enabled database of therapeutically active molecules in public domain which can be used as a source of hits in drug discovery programmes.

Potential library of bioactive molecules from plant sources

Library of Reported and calculated drug like properties

Study of structure-activity relationships

Creation of subject specific databases (Metallopharmaceuticals, Enzyme inhibitors)

TRAININGS

CSIR-URDIP provides customized services in the area of Patent Informatics with an objective to give an overview on the basic as well as advanced issues pertaining to patent search, analytics, methodology for patent protection and prosecution and other aspects related to Patent Informatics.

The programmes usually includes lectures and hands on exercises to enable translation of concepts into practice.

The trainings are conducted to professionals involved in innovation including individual inventors, Professors, post graduate and engineering students, scientists, and persons from business development or management field.

ACSIR-PGDP

CSIR-URDIP offers one year full time “PG Diploma in Patinformatics” awarded by the Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), a university established by an act of the Parliament. The course includes a blend of class room teaching and hands on training on live projects.

Visit PGDP website

{CSIR-URDIP Has Developed Various Databases And Portals For The Science And Technology Community}

PATESTATE

A Database of CSIR Patents

www.patestate.com

LOADB

A Listing of Open Access Databases

www.loadb.org

ANUSANDHAN

Indian Science and Technology Portal

www.anusandhan.net

TECH-INDIA-CSIR

CSIR Technology Showcase Portal

techindiacsir.anusandhan.net

CSIR CENTRAL

Central Platform for OA IRs and Central Harvester for CSIR

www.csircentral.net

SCIENCE CENTRAL

Central Platform for OA IRs and Central Harvester for DBT & DST

www.sciencecentral.in

TESTIMONIALS

CSIR-URDIP, till now, has prepared nearly 2500 reports for clients in the area of chemicals, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, polymers, materials and a few engineering projects. These reports have been well received.

We continue to be very happy with the quality of analysis from URDIP for our projects. I would like to explore possible additional capabilities that you have available, mostly relating to botanicals and natural extracts.

We are in receipt of your project report and attachments. The charts are great and the grouping analysis will prove very helpful in our assessment of the area.That assessment already involves discussion on future project requests in the same vein. Any ideas you have are certainly welcome. Again, thanks for the excellent work. I look forward to working with URDIP again.

Please let me tell you how pleased we are with the report. I would definitely like URDIP to think of this as a model report for us and to approach other reports in the same manner. All of the feedback I have received has been very positive. As you are putting together the final report, think about opportunities we might have to file patents in this area, in other words - open space in the patent art and help us understand those as well.

Thank you very much indeed, this is exactly what we asked for and exactly what got delivered. I will try and speak to the client either today or tomorrow but as far as I can see he should be perfectly happy with the output.