NEHU was established in the year 2022 under the Chairmanship of Prof. Prabha Shankar Shukla, Vice-Chancellor, NEHU, Shillong. Dr A.K. Singh, Department of Law, NEHU, Shillong has been appointed as Coordinator of the Cell.

The Cell aims to work for the IPR awareness and help the budding creators to protect their intellectual property rights. It  also aims to encourage the  researchers to take up IPR related issues to further develop the IPR field of study.

Dr A. K. Singh, Coordinator, IPR Cell, NEHU submitted the proposal to the Ministry of MSME on 23-06-2023 to recognize NEHU, Shillong as Host Institute (HI) as it can provide space equipment, laboratory and other supports incubate for nurture the ideas to flourish the business activities. Accordingly, NEHU, Shillong received the recognition as Host Institute (HI) on 30-09-2022 for implementation of the incubation component. Under this MSME new innovative scheme 23 Ideas have been submitted to MSME through the Cell which are under the scrutiny.

Vision of the Cell

The Vision of the Cell is to encourage and nurture the Intelligent Innovation and protection of the new creations. And also, its vision is to promote the entrepreneurship amongst students, teachers as well as non teaching fraternity.

Objectives of the Cell

(a) To enable creators in understanding, identifying and using intellectual property for theadvantage of society, university and creators themselves;
(b) To make awareness among students and employees for creation of intellectual propertyand its protection;
(c) To facilitate in patent filing and help innovators get their IP Rights;
(d) To train and aware the stakeholders of IPR like students, creators, lawyers, etc;
(e) Promoting discussions on IPR awareness