Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) obtained First Place in the Highest Patent Application 2019 for University Category from the Directorate General of Intellectual Property, Ministry of Law and Human Rights. The award was delivered in person last Thursday (5/11) in Jakarta.
Dr. Mirwan Ushada, STP., M.App.Life.Sc., Secretary of the Directorate of Research UGM, was so grateful for the award achieved by UGM. This achievement is a form of researchers’ hard work at faculties, schools, and study centers in developing discoveries in innovations as solutions to the nation’s obstacles.
“I am so grateful for this achievement. Thanks to all UGM academicians who have successfully worked hard, innovated, and registered for patents,” he explained on Friday (13/11).
The award indicates that many of UGM’s researchers have started to conduct their research downstream. Besides, it also demonstrates that the UGM has carried out socialization according to the target.
Furthermore, he added that UGM work units’ support is also contributed to this award, such as research facilitation, business development, and networking. The achievements are the result of the synergy of researchers with the support of several work units at UGM such as the Directorate of Business Development and Incubation, Directorate of Cooperation and International Affairs, Directorate of Finance, Directorate of Systems and Information Resources, Directorate of Research, Directorate of Community Service, Directorate of Human Resources. , Directorate of Student Affairs, Center for Agro Technology Innovation, Integrated Research and Testing Laboratory, faculties, schools, and study centers.
“So, this is UGM’s mutual work to protect researchers and the results/research ideas so that they are legally preserved,” he said.
Hopefully, this award can trigger UGM to remain innovative to make the research results produced broader. Besides, it is expected that it will impact the academic world, the community, and the downstream.
Dr. Adhy Kurniawan, S.T., as the Head of Subdirectorate of IPR and Industrial Research UGM Research Directorate, added that patent applications at UGM had shown an expanding trend over the past three years. Meantime, to sustain the increasing patent registering trend, UGM strives to facilitate its researchers in a conducive research system. Besides, they also intensify IPR preparation activities such as socialization to build UGM researchers’ enthusiasm to register patents on their research results.
The Head of the Intellectual Property Rights Section, Directorate of Research UGM, Sri Mulyani, S.Sos., revealed UGM received the highest patent application award and second-place for the Highest Copyright Registration in the Higher Education Category.
