Intellectual Property Law Firm, Anushri Gupta & Associates which is operating in the field of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) for Indian as well as overseas clients and also empanelled as IPR Attorney for one of the leading Central University in India.
She is Ph.D. (Biotechnology), lawyer and registered patent agent. She is member of Bar Council of India and Asian Patent Attorneys Association (APAA). She is practicing for 15 years in the area of Patents, Trademarks, Copy Rights, Design, Protection & Registration of New Plant Varieties, and issues related to National Biodiversity Authority (NBA).
She specializes in patent counselling, preparing, filing, prosecution, handling oppositions of patent applications in the fields of biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, chemicals and non-chemicals, providing freedom to operate opinions, plant variety protection and registration. She has handled large number, more than 1000 patent applications both contentious and non-contentious matters covering Biotechnology, Pharmaceuticals, Chemicals, non-Chemicals (Mechanical/Engineering), patent oppositions, patent searches, freedom to operate and conflict of interest opinions. Patents issued from these portfolios cover technologies resulted in some of the world’s most successful commercial biotechnology, pharma and engineering products.
She has been a hard core researcher and had worked at the National Research Centre on Plant Biotechnology (NRCPB), Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi, in the field of biotechnology. She had also worked at one of the leading Intellectual Property Law Firm, Remfry & Sagar at Gurgaon.
She has published several scientific articles in the field of biotechnology and related areas, including contribution to legal publications such as In Vitro Cellular and Developmental Biology- Plant, Theoretical and Applied Genetics, Journal of Horticultural Science and Biotechnology, Plant Breeding, India Business Law Journal.
Dr. Sudhir Kochhar, Ph.D.(Plant Breeding), ARS (Retd.), is former National Coordinator, National Agricultural Innovation Project (NAIP), Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR). He had 37+ years of career span in ICAR where he also served as Project Coordinator, AICRP on Underutilized and Underexploited Plants, Assistant Director General (IPR), ITEC Expert Adviser to Govt. of Mauritius and Counselor to High Commission of India, Port Louis (on deputation), and Officer on Special Duty as Member Secretary, ICAR Committee to develop its IPR Guidelines, and Nodal Officer, Plant Germplasm Exchange. Dr. Kochhar was also In-charge, PGR Policy Unit at NBPGR, New Delhi. He was engaged in active research at different ICAR institutes and stations in New Delhi, Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, and (now) Uttrakhand.
Dr. Kochhar is extensively trained and travelled expert in the fields of IPR, PVP, PGR/Agrobiodiversity, Agricultural Research Management, Performance Monitoring (RFD), and Parliamentary Processes and Procedures. He travelled on various international assignments and programmes in USA (thrice), China, Japan, Netherlands, Switzerland, Mauritius, Congo (Brazza), Sri Lanka and Nepal.
Dr. Kochhar contributed to the development/amendment of Indian legislations- PPV&FR Act, 2001; Biological Diversity Act, 2002, Patents Act, 1970 (1999, 2002, 2005), and Protection and Utilization of Public Funded Intellectual Property Bill, 2008, and gave inputs in matters related to IUPGR; ITPGRFA; CBD/ COP-IV; Framework on TK, GR and Folklore, etc. as well as revision of Plants (Protection) Act, 1976 and GMO Bill 2002 of Mauritius.
Dr. Kochhar is on Editorial Board of Journal of Intellectual Property Rights. He was Guest Editor of its Special Volume on “IPR and Agriculture” (March 2011 Issue) and also another Special Volume of Indian Farming on “National Agricultural Innovation Project” (May 2014 Issue). He was Editor of Indian Journal of Plant Genetic Resources. Dr. Kochhar is a well acknowledged resource person on IPR and PGR/Agrobiodiversity for many organizations and institutions including NIIPM, ILI, ISIL, IITs, NRDC, TIFAC, ICAR, CSIR, DRDO, SAUs, PFCs, NLU, Law Dept.- DU, AU, BHU, and Amity and Mody Universities.
Dr. Kochhar has been Member NBA’s Expert Committee on Agrobiodiversity also chaired its ‘Sub-Committee II’. He has also been in PPV&FRA Committee for Awareness on Farmers’ Rights, and DRDO Committees on IPR for institutional reforms, and for developing its IPR policy & standard operating guidelines. Law Faculty, BHU, Varanasi felicitated Dr. Kochhar for his work on plant breeding and plant variety protection/IPR during 150th Anniversary Celebrations of Pt. Madan Mohan Malviya. He discussed the Protection and Utilization of Public Funded Intellectual Property Bill, 2008 on Rajya Sabha TV’s ‘Law of the Land’ programme.
Dr. Kochhar provided consultancy to International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) on IPR & ABS Mechanisms for Seed Sector in Nepal. He was Member Technical Programme Committee of the First International Agrobiodiversity Congress, New Delhi. He actively participated in various dialogues and meetings of ICFA and RIS, New Delhi, and as Reviewer of Journal of IPR. He was engaged in Career Advancement Committees of DRDO, New Delhi and NIPER, Mohali.
Dr. Kochhar was invited speaker in Faculty Development Programmes at Amity University, Gwalior; Mody University, Laxmangarh; IIT, Delhi; Kiran Programme for Women entrepreneurs at TIFAC (DST), New Delhi; MSME and Arise Programmes at IARI, New Delhi; ASEAN-India Regional Training Workshop on Development and Implementation of ABS Legal Framework, at NBA, Chennai, and ITEC Capacity Building Programme on Science Diplomacy, at RIS, New Delhi. Dr. Kochhar was invited by Govt. of India for Expert advice on the current Intergovernmental negotiations for Agreement on Biodiversity Beyond the National Jurisdiction.
As invited faculty in IPR, Dr. Kochhar has taught classes for LL.M (IPR) at SGT, Gurugram NCR, and Post Graduate Diploma in IPR at ISIL, New Delhi.
Dr. Shikha has more than 14 years of experience in Patent Drafting, Patents Document Filing, Patent searching, and prosecution of Chemical, Biotech and mechanical related inventions and facing hearings at Patent Offices. She has also prepared reply statements for pre-grant opposition and attended hearing.
Dr Shikha is an inventor and applicant also and has a patent granted for her invention on "NOVEL CATALYST AND PROCESS FOR SYNTHESIS OF 2,6-DIMETHYL NAPHTHALENE in organic chemistry. She has also prepared reply statements for pre-grant opposition and attended hearing. She has also delivered various presentations on Latest Developments in IPR, Patenting Systems and Patent Search and hands on patent searching etc. at various colleges and Universities representing TIFAC, DST
He is an established academician, a research scientist and a registered patent agent. He is working with Amity University, Delhi NCR for approximately a decade, and obtained B.Pharm. from one of the best institutes under Amravati University, Maharashtra in the year 2000. He obtained his M.Pharm degree in Pharmaceutical Biotechnology from Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, Jharkhand in 2002. He qualified GATE with 92.32 percentile. He started his career from Uttar Pradesh Technical University in 2002. He got his PhD from Bundelkhand University, a state government University. He was awarded Indo-Hungary European research project by the International Division of Department of Science & Technology, Govt. of India. Dr. Chandra has served in various Administrative and Academic positions for more than 17 years at various institutes of UP Technical University & other Universities. He was Head of Pharmacy at Mangalayatan University, Aligarh. He has supervised 8 Ph.D., 25 M. Pharm. thesis and published more than 75 research papers in International & National journals with cumulative impact points of more than 54; H index of 11, i-10 index of 14 and citations of above 650. He has been the investigator of research projects funded by various government agencies and pharmaceutical industries for more than Rs. 1.75 crores. Dr. Chandra has filed patents for his 12 inventions. He has published five books/book chapters. He has been the invited speaker at national & international universities in Europe like the University of Szeged, Hungary. He has also filed 11 patents to his credit. He has done research consulting for international clients from Italy and United Kingdom.
Presently Dr Chandra is an Associate Professor in DRA at Amity Institute of Pharmacy, Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Noida, since 2011. He is a Registered Patent Agent with Govt of India. He has a vast array of experience with all aspects of the patent process and wants to play his role in building National Innovation Capability by making patent filing affordable to the large community of students through LexGin – Your Partners in Innovation, India.
Certified IP Trainer by the Japan Patent Office, Selected from India for the multi country Japan Patent Office/IPR Trainers course for IP Trainers at Tokyo, Japan.
A Registered Indian Patent Attorney, IN/PA- 2601, Qualified CSIR-NET-JRF & LS in Life Sciences, Ph.D. in Parasitology, LL.B. ,PG Diploma in Intellectual Property Rights (PGDIPR) from IGNOU, WIPO Certification course on IPR, Post Graduate Certification Program in Patent Practice (PGCPP) from IGNOU, M.Sc. (Gold Medalist, 1st position in the merit list of University),
Running a DST funded Research Project as a Principal Investigator entitled, ‘Affordable medical devices and equipments – Priority medical technology needs in India’,
9 Copyrights Registered, 16 Research papers in reputed journals, 2 Books authored, Invited Guest Faculty/resource person for FISME (Federation of Indian Micro and Small & Medium Enterprises), DST, IIT Delhi, FICCI Capacity building programs (FICCI CASCADE capacity building programs for police officers in various states), Central University and other Academic Institutions on IPR Promotion & Awareness.
As a Deputy Director (IPR) facilitating Amity Patent and copyright filings, Patent prosecution, IP Management, and Facilitating scientists, researchers on filing of Patents, facilitation on identification of patentable subject matter to the scientists/ faculties/ researchers so as to augment the patent filings and establish a sustainable inclusive innovation ecosystem in our organization, and a Faculty for IPR in UG/PG Classes, Supervising 3 Ph.D. scholars in IPR.
Coordinating the major Activities being undertaken by the NRDC-Amity Innovation Facilitation Centre, coordinating various Seminars/workshops on IPR Awareness under the aegis of Amity-NRDC IFC in different Amity Campuses for the Awareness, Augmentation and protection of IP Assets.
Shubham Istrewal is a legal professional and works with the CIPAM’s Enforcement team. He possesses a Master’s degree in ‘Intellectual Property Rights and Business Law’ from NLIU, Bhopal and also holds a Diploma in ‘Information Technology and Social Media Law’ from WBNUJS, Kolkata.
At CIPAM, Shubham’s role is to strengthen the enforcement and adjudicatory mechanism for combatting IPR infringements in India. In addition to conducting capacity building programs for judiciary, customs and police, his responsibilities are to develop proactive strategies for addressing counterfeits and piracy issues, to assist in International negotiations, reviewing bilateral/ multilateral agreements and the policy matters.
Patent & Trade Mark Attorney, Managing Partner, sr4ipr Partners, an IP Law Firm Ram Prakash Yadav holds B. Sc (Hons) and LLB (Hons.) degrees. He did Dip. in Journalism also in 1986. He has vast experience of around 25 years now in the field of intellectual property rights (IPRs). He worked with L. S. Davar & Co., a reputed IP law firm, for more than 16 years and then served National Innovation Foundation (DST, Govt. of India) as a National Coordinator – IPR. Subsequently, he worked with Intel Technology (a subsidiary of INTEL Corp. USA) in Bangalore, an Indian MNC and then Italian Trade Commission, Italian Embassy in Delhi as a Sr. Advisor –IPR.
Mr. Yadav has travelled to various countries, e.g., USA, Canada, Japan, China, Thailand and Singapore to assess viability of technologies to be acquire and provided opinions in respect of other cross border IP issues. He delivers lectures / talks during the seminars / conferences conducted by NRDC, TIFAC, MSME etc. He is an alumni of APIC / JIII, Japan and had attended a training program organized by APIC / JIII in collaboration of the Japan Patent office.
An advisor to several govt, semi-govt and private institutions in India and abroad, he is an expert on structuring and positioning of companies, land use regulations, real-estate and construction laws.
Professor, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade
With Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, Delhi since 2001. Heading Centre for International Trade in Technology (CITT) since 2013. More than 27 years of experience in corporate and academics, played a prominent role in marketing of rural produce and processed products in terminal markets and productivity enhancement program of Mother Dairy F & V Project, Delhi, a unit of National Dairy Development Board, India (NDDB). Rolled out first online management degree program initiative of Indira Gandhi National Open University, India (IGNOU) and initiated online learning extension for IIFT programs across the country. Worked on ICT policy issues pertaining to education sector in developing countries at UNESCO, Paris in 2007 as a visiting scholar. Policy research and consultancy in the domains of technology, textiles, organisational transformation and trade facilitation.
Lawyer and founding Partner, Knowlegentia Consultants
Professional expertise of more than 14 years. Her specialization is in International Economic laws covering the entire ambit of Intellectual Property Laws, Corporate Laws, Arbitration, Civil, Property matters. After completing Company secretary and bachelor’s in law, she pursued Masters in Law from University of Warwick, U.K.
She along with Ms. Harinder Narvan started Knowledgentia Consultants way back in the year 2008. She has been actively practicing and advising on various corporate compliances, company matters, legal issues pertaining to social and infrastructure sector. She has been handling matters including but not limited to IP searching, drafting, filing, prosecution, opposition as well as litigation in both the
Appellate Boards as well as the High Courts and other specialized tribunals as well as the Supreme Court. She has also handled the negotiations and discussions with the Indian and foreign clientele, opining on corporate matters, incorporation advisory as well as other legal advice for foreign collaborations, etc. In the pursuit have gained vast experience in all kinds of corporate legal work including company incorporations and drafting and vetting agreements, contracts, licenses, joint venture agreements etc.
Dr. H. Purushotham is currently holding the position of Chairman and Managing Director, National Research Development Corporation (NRDC) a Central Public Sector Undertaking under the Ministry of Science & Technology, Govt. of India.
He obtained B.Tech degree in Chemical Engineering from Andhra UniversityVisakhapatnam (1982), M.Tech from IIT Kharagpur, M.B.A. from IGNOU and PhD from Osmania University. He has acquired over 35 years of diverse experience across the innovation value chain by working at different government institutions of repute Dr. H. Purushotham is currently holding the position of Chairman and Managing Director, National Research Development Corporation (NRDC) a Central Public Sector Undertaking under the Ministry of Science & Technology, Govt. of India. He obtained B.Tech degree in Chemical Engineering from Andhra University Visakhapatnam (1982), M.Tech from IIT Kharagpur, M.B.A. from IGNOU and PhD from Osmania University. He has acquired over 35 years of diverse experience across the innovation value chain by working at different government institutions of repute. He has also served as a Director in the NICCO Corporation, Andaman Fisheries Ltd. and Shilpi Aqua Culture Pvt. Ltd. and as an Investment Committee Member of UTI, India Ascent Venture Fund, Gujarat Venture Fund Ltd. and Venteneast VC Fund of APIDC and member of several committees of government bodies (DST, DSIR, MoMSME, MHRD, TIFAC, TDB, CSIR, etc.) promoting innovations. He was trained at (i) Venture Capital Institute (VCI), Washington, USA on “Venture Capital Funding”,(ii) National Business Incubation Association (NBIA),USA on setting up of “Technology Business Incubators”,(iii) MDI on “How to Engage and Use Consultants” and (iv) ASCI on “Management of R&D Systems”. His core competencies are multidisciplinal R&D process development, scale-up, IPR Management, technology transfer, techno-economic feasibility analysis, incubation, entrepreneurship and start-up, consultancy, venture funding, industrial R&D project reviews and monitoring, etc. He is a recipient of about 1 2 awards including “Meritorious Young Consultant Award 1991" Instituted by Consultancy Development Centre, Ministry of Science & Technology 1991. BSE-SKOCH Award 2016, International Association of Advanced Materials Medal 2017, ASSOCHAM and Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry Awards 2017 for promoting R&D and Innovation in the country. Under his leadership NRDC got “Best PSU Award” from Governance Now and he was awarded a “CEO of the Year 2017” from Indian Chambers of Commerce. He has authored/ co-authored 65 project reports, 5 book chapters, one book, published/ presented 85 research papers in various journals and conferences, filed three patents and helped industry in commercializing more than 200 technologies indifferent sectors.
Now, as a CMD of NRDC, Dr. Purushotham is sphere heading Commercialisation of Innovative Technologies developed by various public funded R&D Labs and Universities in the country and contributing significantly to Start-up India and Make inIndia Missions of Govt. of India. He has brought a turnaround in NRDC.
Founder & Managing Partner
The Frontiers Legal
MANSI CHAUDHRY is an attorney-at-law with a background in life sciences, biological sciences, biochemistry and herbal technology. She is a registered Patent Agent and admitted as an Advocate with Bar Council of Delhi. She is an awardee of prestigious “Women-Scientist Scholarship Scheme WOS-C (KIRAN IPR) in Intellectual Property Rights granted by Patent Facilitating Centre, Technology Information Forecasting Assessment Council (TIFAC), Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.
She is a registered Patent Agent and admitted as an Advocate with Bar Council of Delhi. She is an awardee of prestigious “Women-Scientist Scholarship Scheme WOS-C (KIRAN IPR) in Intellectual Property Rights granted by Patent Facilitating Centre, Technology Information Forecasting Assessment Council (TIFAC), Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.
She has been in practice in the field of patents for more than a decade and has been involved in several important patent cases in India and abroad. She has an extensive experience in drafting and prosecuting patent applications, providing strategic patent counselling, review of patent portfolios to identify the risks involved in the market and providing opinion on patentability, validity and freedom to operate issues. She is known for her outstanding management skills and had managed large patent portfolios of diverse technologies globally.
She actively participates in many international and national conferences and seminars and is regularly called upon as a faculty or speaker in several seminars, conferences, patents awareness workshops conducted by various forums in India and by various government agencies and private sector entities for training and advice on Intellectual Property laws.
She is a member of the Asian Patent Attorneys Association (APAA).
Associate Professor
Specialization: Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Phytochemistry and a certified and trained Intellectual Property Right professional.
Email: rwalia@amity.edu
Dr. Ramanpreet Walia has 18years of academic experience. She has worked with various Pharmacy Colleges holding senior positions. She is a registered Patent Agent (IN/PA 2700) by GOI. She has worked in one of the top IPR law firm of the country. She has been awarded a Women Scientist (WOS-C) scholarship from TIFAC under DST, Delhi. Dr Walia has done her Ph.D from Gyan Vihar University, Jaipur and her Masters from Panjab University Chandigarh. She has made contributions in the field of phytochemistry and heterocyclic chemistry, During the last 15 years of her academic and research career, she has published more than 18 research papers in reputed international journals that include Hamdard Medicus, International Journal of Drug Regulatory affairs, European journal of Pharmaceutical and medical Research, etc., She has given various lectures on IPR in various sectors of Innovations at Institute, National and International level.
Her recent achievement is she is empaneled as IPR Facilitator for startups by GOI (In updated list of February 2020)
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Participated in many conferences at National and International level
