Sharda University had always recognized the importance of strong and vibrant IPR culture, permeating entire research and academic community and has created a strong ecosystem of protecting intellectual property rights of its academic community by incentivizing the researchers and academic community to come up with quality publications as well as innovative solutions. Sharda University aspires to be an important participant and contributor in the national innovation ecosystem by undertaking a holistic approach to the entire issue of innovation, entrepreneurship, intellectual property rights and technology transfer and improving the pedagogy as well as practices related to same. University has a well-defined research and consultancy policy to promote and support technology development and commercialization activities by students and faculty.

IPR Cell works as a nodal agency for handling entire range of issues pertaining to intellectual property rights and technology transfer. The IPR Cell provides total support to faculty members, students and research scholars in filing of IPR applications, technology transfer, handling IPR issues in collaborative R&D apart from establishing networks with peer groups and government agencies etc. Prof. Avinash Kumar, is currently the Head of IPR Cell in Sharda University. With the sustained efforts, Sharda University has been able to build a credible IPR Portfolio including 428 published patent applications, 46 granted patents, 200 registered Designs and 75 registered copyrights till date

The IPR Cell is well networked with peer groups and government departments and it has conducted workshops/seminars with the support of DST and DRDO with eminent IPR professionals as resource persons. It has recently implemented a new IPR policy, in sync with National IPR Policy 2016 and National Innovation and Startup Policy 2019 for Students & Faculty, in addition to its comprehensive Research Policy, with following highlights:

• Sharing of royalty up to 90% with inventors, in case of licensing
• Commercialization Avenue for faculty members through Spinoff and Startup