"Inventions and Patents- Fame and Fortune"
Seminar 1: "Crystals: Use Them for Missile Defense and Still be Girl's Best Friend" by Dr. Chandra P. Khattak
Seminar 2: "The Patent Road to Riches" by Dr. Kaplesh Kumar Esq.
After Dinner: A short Coffee/Dessert Talk and Book signing at 9:30 or 9:45 PM: "India Unbound" by Mr. Gurcharan Das.
Date: Friday, April 6, 2001
Time: 6:30 - 10:00 PM
Location: Burlington Marriott, MA (Phone: 781-229-6565) (refer to directions below)
Cost: $25/person; $45/couple; Children and students: $10
RSVP: Please call or e-mail. Dwarika Agarwal (Dagarwal@aol.com) or 508-226-2566.
All are welcome (IITians and Non-IITians). Please make reservations early
. Make check payable to: IIT SINE and mail to 8 Stonehill Circle, Burlington, MA 01803.CRYSTALS : Use Them for Missile Defense and Still be Girl's Best Friend
Dr. Chandra P. Khattak
Diamond, a crystal, creates sparkle in one's eyes. The same material, chemically, is soot - not much romance. We produce synthetic crystals, which are larger, purer and more perfect than natural crystals. Production of Sapphire, Ti:Sapphire and Silicon will be discussed. How would you like to get a one-half million carat stone?
Chandra Khattak is the Executive Vice President at Crystal Systems, Salem MA. He has B.Tech (Hons.) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from SUNY at Stony Brook. He is a Founding Member of IIT SINE and served as its first Executive Vice President. Since 1977 his strong technical background in materials science has figured prominently in developing HEM and achieving significant achievements in directional solidification of materials through SBIR and other research programs. He holds six patents, has edited or been a contributing chapter author in a number of reference texts and produced more than 100 articles and technical papers.
The Patent Road to Riches
Dr. Kaplesh Kumar Esq.
A patent granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office provides one the right to exclude others from making, using, or selling the invention in this country. The patent's lifetime is finite, twenty years from the filing date. It can be sold (assigned) or leased (licensed). Fortunes are made from inventions that radically change the world, such as the light bulb, those that enhance engineering capabilities, such as improved sapphire crystals, and those that address everyday needs, such as sock sorting devices. Everyone can be an inventor, and achieve the American dream. The patenting process and potential pitfalls limiting the range of exclusivity are discussed.
Kaplesh Kumar is a Registered Patent Attorney. His degrees include B. Tech from IIT Kanpur, Sc.D. from MIT, and J.D. Magna Cum Laude from the New England School of Law. He holds 14 U.S. patents, and has co-authored over 75 technical articles and reports, including an Applied Physics Review monograph and a book chapter. He is a Founding Member of IIT SINE, and served as its first Vice President - Kanpur. He has led several community organizations including Sangam, India Association of Greater Boston, and most recently, Indian American Forum for Political Education, New England chapter. His biography is listed in numerous reference publications including Who's Who in the World.
India Unbound
Mr. Gurcharan Das
Columnist for the Times of India, author of 3 plays and a novel, and former CEO of Procter and Gamble India.
Mr. Das will be speaking to us on his book "India Unbound" (406 pp, Alfred A. Knopf. $27.50). This book is featured in the March 25, 2001 issue of New York Times Book Review and a number of other publications. The book will be available for sale and signing at the IIT SINE event. An excerpt from one of the reviews is given below.
From Publisher's Weekly Das, an Indian venture capitalist and columnist for the Times of India (and former CEO of Procter & Gamble India), uses his own experiences as a businessman as the context in which to comment on India's postcolonial economic policies. He begins with Nehru's mixed economy (which he argues achieved democracy but ignored entrepreneurship and competition, resulting in an absence of industrial development) and continues through to the economic reforms of 1991 under Prime Minister Narasimha Rao (whom he labels a "reluctant liberalizer"), demonstrating how India has abandoned state-directed industrialization and finally become a free-market democracy with a burgeoning middle class. He also points out how India's late (and incomplete) entry into the international economy continues to hamper its growth, as compared to other late entries, such as that of China, which had a lower per capita income than India did in the mid-'60s and today boasts one twice as large as India's. Nevertheless, Das remains optimistic that "the new India is increasingly one of competition and decentralization," particularly because of the Internet and the boom in software entrepreneurship. In explaining India's economic policies, he gives much credence to theories about high-caste Brahmins being averse to making money and the government's fears that capitalism would crush the poor; but Das only mentions in passing Russia's ideological sway at the time of India's independence and does not discuss the Cold War or the context for India's belief that import substitution was necessary to make India less dependent on the outside world for its survival. Business readers with an interest in Third World development will learn much from Das. (Feb. 26) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
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Dwarika Agarwal 508-226-2566 ; Vinay K. Aggarwal 508-755-4475;
Krishna Srikrishna 978-266-0086; Prem S. Sinha 603-891-0179;
Vivek Soni 781-334-2832; Anil Saigal 781-272-9082;
Sudhir Mody 781-937-9616; Anoop Kumar 781 393-9432;
Kandy Rathinasamy 781-246-3917; Puran Dang 781-861-7493;
Subhash Varshney 781-229-2767; Narender K. Chhabra 781-275-2125;
Chandra Khattak 978-777-3769; Sriketan Mahanti 508-872-4148
Directions: Marriott in Burlington, One Mall Road, Burlington, MA 01803. From Route 128/I 95-take exit 33 B for Burlington. Take left at the first traffic light on to Mall Road. The Hotel is on your left.