General Legal Council
SMAS Intellectual Property
Total years of experience :12 years, 7 Months
• Managing patent and design portfolio of various clients and advising them on various forms of IP protection.
• Responsible for infringement analysis and sending cease and desist notice on behalf of client.
• Responsible for conducting Prior art and freedom to operate searches on behalf of clients and providing them with areas to concentrate their research on.
• Managing and supporting patents/designs assignments and licensing.
Managed various business units in their IP filings such as Banking and Finance, Manufacturing, Supply
Chain, Life sciences and Energy resources along with the innovation labs dealing with multimedia,
graphics and robotics, data analytics and information fusion and Speech and natural language processing.
Have working experience in drafting technology transfer licenses, SLAs, & other business
agreements and contract management.
Examined various US Patents and indicated various novelty aspects and inventive steps
• Conducted patentability searches and analyzing prior art.
• Prepared IPR manual, prepared guidelines for usage of Reuse platform and for e-Commerce.
• Worked on live projects and helped in preparing legal contracts such as Mo U between TCS and IIM C and prepared templates for various partnership agreements.
• Conducted patentability searches and analyzing prior art.
• Conducted research for Intellectual Property Rights and preparing notes on important cases covering issues in Patent and Design law.
• Categorized Pharmaceutical Patents granted in India from 2008- 2010.
• Prepared Q & A on Patent law in India.
• Assisted the team in patent prosecution including understanding the complete prosecution stages i.e. filing, examination, office action responses, grant and maintenance along with preparation of statutory forms.
• Examined various US Patents and indicated various novelty aspects and inventive steps.