6 May, 2009
Workshop on Innovation and Patents Using Russian Theory of Inventive Problem-solving

RCSC together with Crafitti Consulting Private Limited, Bangalore, organized a unique Workshop on Inventions, Innovations and Patents using a relatively lesser known Russian Methodology named Teoriya Resheniya Izobreatatelskikh Zadatch or Theory of Inventive Problem- Solving (TRIZ) . Mr. Navneet Bhushan, Founder-Director of Crafitti Consulting, using the multi-media presentation, highlighted different theoretical and practical aspects of TRIZ. He has immense experience in the fields of defence research, information technology, intellectual property and management research. He is a leading expert, research and consultant on innovation management and has built a variety of frameworks, methodologies and techniques to craft innovation in business and technology contexts.
Crafitti Consulting is an innovative consulting firm in the business, science and technology space. The participants of the Workshop comprised patent experts, patent lawyers, IP heads, scientists, inventors, engineers, engineering managers, R&D heads, researchers, product managers, business managers, etc.

The delegates were exposed to understanding the level of an invention and a patent, finding out the key contradictions the invention is solving, looking at the claims hierarchy of the patent, function diagrams of a patent/invention, pruning or trimming as a means of inventing, system complexity estimation, etc. These techniques will help in finding technological alternatives to a patent, writing future-proof claims of a patent, understanding the evolution of an invention compared to prior art, finding white space in a field to leverage, etc.

Genrich Altshuller, a former Soviet navel patent officer after World War II started a systematic study of patents, his aim was to find out what makes a successful invention. His search led him to develop a unique methodology called TRIZ. In the process, he also developed a methodology to analyze and study patents. Crafitti Consulting has developed on the TRIZ way of doing patent analysis and reinforced it with other techniques to build a comprehensive framework for inventions and innovations. For the first time, this framework is offered in India.