Articles have become “patent”! – Iranian and world news

According to Mehr reporter, Patent Or patent certificate; Is a document that to a person who is a new product or process or process The solution The new technique has invented for an old problem, given.

Request Patent Are registered by academics or institutions to protect their invention; But some people are looking for Patent They can improve their resume and work records for opportunities and job progress. Some universities and research institutes privilege to have a Patent They are considered equivalent or sometimes more than publishing an article in an international journal.

After years of disclosing that some companies are selling articles and writing to researchers, an article has now been published, saying that these institutions, along with the sale of academic articles, which are a kind of scientific and academic cheat, are a kind of scientific and academic fraud, Patent They also sell. In simple language; Essay factories, Patent They also.

Sale Thousands Patent To Indian academics

In this article in the journal Sans It has been published that over the past five years, these companies have registered thousands of exotic medical equipment and other devices in the UK intellectual property (IPO) office and in exchange for costs, academics as the owners of these. Designs They have introduced.

These companies have targeted researchers in countries such as India and Pakistan. Universities in these countries give researchers who record their inventions such as job progress and sometimes financial rewards.

One of the academics of intellectual property at the University of Oxford, England, has said that the operation of these institutions exploits the ignorance of intellectual property systems. Britain like many countries, to artists and Others Allows them to protect their designs relatively inexpensive and easy without having a difficult and costly process to receive a formal patent.

One of the scientists in the field of “Faram*” North Western America and his colleagues Patent Some institutions were discovered by social media while monitoring the channels of essay factories. About 5 years ago, this group in Channels notice Advertising a new type of Product became. In these channels, patents or “British Patent Patent” were sold between 2 and 6,000 Indian rupees, equivalent to $ 1 to $ 2. In sales advertising Patent In these channels it was emphasized that “the file Patent“It can help researchers in the ranking systems used in India.

6,000 ridiculous and childish designs by 4 companies Patent

Researchers More Out of 5 of these ads by registering Registration plans The British Intellectual Property Office was adapted and found that the two companies responsible for the registrations had recorded approximately 6,000.

This article emphasized that most of these projects were “childish” projects. Their titles also mentioned keywords such as “using artificial intelligence” or “machine learning”. Most of the designs are meaningless and ridiculous and all Thing From The sentence Agricultural machinery to include electrical equipment; But among them the design of the medical devices was more common. For example, one of the designs shows a shoe that looks like the camera and USB ports around Cumin It is located and is registered as “Smart Shoes for Low Visual People”. Another design called “Design of Skin Cancer Examination with Artificial Intelligence Design Thinking” is a three -dimensional shape of a gun that has been added to a small display and multiple USB ports.

Researchers have further identified the other suspicious companies by further examining the registered design database. The two companies have registered a total of more than 6,000 projects in the past 5 years, accounting for 3.5 percent of the total projects registered in the UK at that time.

Indian universities score articles and patents

Almost all of the project owners were related to the academics or universities of Indian. The founder of Indian Research Honesty (India Research Watch) says that Indian universities are scoring employees for products such as publications and patents, and that academics must achieve minimum points to achieve the necessary points in annual reviews. He says a ministerial entity that universities Adjustment And financing, it has suggested that researchers should get more points for international patents than regional patents; However, institutions are different in accurate observance of these recommendations.

Patent Not only for Indians

Unlike Patent Either the patents are not reviewed, the request for innovation plans or whether the plans are really new or innovative are not reviewed. So the equivalent registered schemes Patent Not, and if universities correctly recognized the difference between the two, this type of fraud would not have been possible.

One of the researchers in Germany researching paper mills said: “The services of these companies may have been provided to Indian academics, but such abuses occur in other countries.” For example Russian universities also encourage patents, publications and other products, and companies Patent In social networks, sales Patent Or advertise the patent certificate with the Russian equivalent of Craigslist.

Sale Patent Not only does academics undermine the credibility of universities in the community, but also the intellectual property system. Encountered It will do. That’s why Instead of emphasizing the number of academic patents, universities have been suggested to evaluate their quality to prevent these academic fraud.

According to Mehr, given that the institution of science in Iran has been on the subject of the thesis and article for many years Hand It looks like it seems better to sell officials. Patent Also consider and confront it with preventive policy making before this expansion and influence of this type of scientific fraud into the academic community.

* Metasines;; The use of scientific methodology for the study of science itself is to increase the quality of scientific research.