IP Management

TNTTFC offers you comprehensive support for end-to-end Intellectual Property (IP) management to help innovators secure and strategically leverage your creations. Our services are designed to align with both national and international IP frameworks, ensuring robust protection and long-term value generation.

  • IP Filing and Registration Support: Documentation, drafting and filing of various forms of IP — including patents, trademarks, copyrights and industrial designs. Expert stakeholder guidance through procedural requirements for timely and effective registration.
  • Protection and Compliance Strategies: Helping innovators develop strategies to safeguard your IP assets from infringement. Advisory on compliance with regulatory standards and maintain IP portfolios in accordance with evolving legal frameworks.
  • Monetization and Licensing Guidance: Supporting innovators in unlocking the commercial value of IP through licensing, technology transfer agreements, and strategic partnerships. Converting protected knowledge into revenue-generating opportunities.
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What Can Be Protected?

Ideas to Patent
Brands to Trademark
Creations to Copyright
Designs to own

Scope and terms of IP protection

A patent grants exclusive rights over a novel, inventive, and industrially applicable product or process. Patent protection allows the owner to exclude others from making, using, selling, or importing the invention.
Term: Rights are enforceable for a statutory period of 20 years.

A trademark protects distinctive signs such as words, logos, symbols, or combinations thereof that identify goods or services.
Term: Protection is granted for 10 years from filing and is renewable indefinitely upon continued use.

Industrial design protection covers the aesthetic aspects of an article, including shape, configuration, pattern, or ornamentation.
Term: The initial term is 10 years, extendable by 5 additional years.

Copyright protects original literary, artistic, musical, dramatic, and software works fixed in a tangible form. It grants creators exclusive economic and moral rights over reproduction, distribution, and adaptation of their works.
Term: The term varies by work type but typically extends 60 years beyond the author’s life for literary works.

Protection covers the original three-dimensional layout or topography of integrated circuits.
Term: Rights subsist for 10 years and are non-renewable.

Who should apply?

DPIIT Registered Startups with
innovative ideas
DPIIT Registered Startups with innovative logo/trademark
Students/ Individual inventors with
Innovative ideas

Register below to turn your ideas into Protected assets

Prior Art Search
Request Form

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Patent
Facilitation form

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Trademarks
Facilitation Form

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Copyrights
Facilitation Form

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Industrial Designs
Facilitation Form

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FAQs

It supports the identification, protection, and management of IP such as patents, trademarks, copyrights, designs, and trade secrets.

Submit the IP Facilitation Request Form through the TNTTFC portal (https://techtransfer.itnthub.tn.gov.in/ipmanagement/) along with the required technical and ownership details.

Yes. TNTTFC conducts IP awareness programs and offers guidance on disclosure, confidentiality, and filing readiness.

Yes, it will. Public disclosure may affect patentability, so you should contact TNTTFC before publishing or presenting.

TNTTFC reviews your innovation, its market potential, ownership, and intended use before recommending the best protection route.

  • Patent — for novel products, processes, systems, or methods meeting patentability requirements
  • Industrial Design — for the shape, configuration, pattern, or aesthetic appearance of an article
  • Trademark — for distinctive brand names, logos, taglines, or identifiers
  • Copyright — for original literary, artistic, dramatic, musical, software, or database works
  • Trade Secret — for confidential know-how, algorithms, formulations, or processes that derive value from staying confidential
  • Hybrid Strategy — a combination of the above where that maximizes value

Yes. The strategy may change based on new technical, legal, or commercial developments.

TNTTFC works with qualified professionals and empanelled experts to prepare and file applications.

As inventor/ applicant, you may need to provide technical inputs, documents, and timely responses during the process.

No. TNTTFC provides guidance and support, but grant, registration, and commercial success cannot be guaranteed.

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