The present paper attempts to examine the level of awareness among the researchers of different disciplines about the patent procedures in particular and IPRs in general according to their teaching and research experiences, number of national and international publications, number of national and international patents filed and granted, etc. The study is based on primary data collected via a structured questionnaire using five point scale i.e. not at all, little extent, some extent, large extent and full extent, which was administered online to faculties of various disciplines of educational institutes of national importance i.e. Central Universities, NITs, IITs, etc. The collected data are analyzed with the help of frequency distribution and percentage method using SPSS (18 Version). ANOVA technique is used to validate the results of the study. It is found that the respondents from IT and engineering discipline, having teaching experience of 17–24 years and research experience of 21–30 years, having 21–40 publications in national journals and 0–15 publications in international journals, and those who have filed and granted 0–3 patents agree to a full extent that they have the knowledge about the different aspects of IPR management, particularly patenting filing procedure and post filing challenges. The awareness does not differ across independent variables, except according to number of patents filed.