Education and Career Forum

In the pharmaceutical sector it is necessary to be aware about the whole idea of experimental design and patents because licensing of pharmaceutical drugs and medications will not be valid without it. A student has to have a thorough knowledge about concepts of novelty, inventiveness, disclosure, limits and industrial applications in order to apply these concepts in their vocation. Some of the topics taught in the course of this discipline are various features and applications of central composite design, ways to do screening study with the help of Plackett and Burman design, differences between the concepts of linear model and quadratic model, main effect and interaction, factors and levels, patents, its different types and specifications, inventions not patentable under the patent act 1970, the precautions to be taken while drafting ‘claims’ in a patent application, different documents required to obtain a patent, infringement of patents, importance and types of contour plots and Response surface plots. Experimental Design and Patents paper will give you a maximum of 80 marks, which you can earn by answering 5 questions in all. All of them have been given equal weightage of 16marks. Below you will find some of the previous year’s question papers.