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“ Rarely does a conference assemble such an informed and informative group of worldwide experts. It is an absolute
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delight to hear viewpoints from around the world in a single conference. I look forward to continuing to participate in
this conference

- Hon’ble Prof. Randall Ray Rader, Former Chief Judge of United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (USA)

ABOUT THE EVENT

The World Intellectual Property Forum (WIPF), often known as the World IP Forum, is well-known for hosting one of the
best Global IP events. It is an international gathering of IP professionals and experts that is held behind closed doors
(mainly lawyers from international law firms, corporate companies, government officials & universities). This is a yearly
event that occurs in many cities and nations every year. This WIPF platform primarily focuses on knowledge exchange,
networking, recognising deserving individuals, and raising awareness of intellectual property. The majority of our
participants are from the United States, Germany, France, Australia, Brazil, Singapore, and more than 40 other nations.

The World IP Forum is currently in its 12th Edition, and in the years prior, we held numerous conferences in New Delhi,
Bangkok, Bengaluru, Dubai, and Taipei. We are preparing for the conference in UAE, UK, USA and European countries in
the near future.

ABOUT THE ORGANISER

Intellectual Professionals LLP mainly caters into the field of Intellectual Property Awareness throughout Asia. Its motto
is to stitch the innovators, scientists, lawyers, corporate houses and all other IP honchos into a single thread. We create
the platform for socio-economically backward people by identifying their talents and thus protecting their creation.

This platform mainly focuses into knowledge sharing and thus fills up the previous gaps of un-certainty into a booming
business opportunity which was previously unexplored and un-ventured. It was a long haul through several obstacles
before the inception of this idea took place and came into reality. Our bull’s eye is mainly networking and knowledge
sharing.
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09:00 AM – 10:00 AM
BADGE COLLECTION
GRAND BALLROOM

10:00 AM – 01:00 PM INAUGURAL CEREMONY

WELCOME & OPENING ADDRESS KEYNOTE & THEME ADDRESS CHIEF GUEST

Pravin Anand Dr. Sourabh Khemani Hon’ble Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy

Managing Partner Principal Group Director Judge
Anand and Anand (India) L.S. Davar & Co. (India) High Court of Madras (India)

GUEST OF HONOUR & SPECIAL ADDRESS

Justice (Retd.) Manmohan Singh Justice (Retd.) Dr. Vineet Kothari Prof. Douglas Ginsburg
Former Chairman of the Intellectual Property Former Acting Chief Justice, Senior Advocate, Judge Ginsburg, US Court of Appeals, Washington
Appellate Board (IPAB) (India) Supreme Court of India (India) DC and George Mason University (USA)

Narendra K. Sabharwal IAS Retd. Prof. Dr. Heinz Goddar Patrick J. Coyne
Former Deputy Director General, WIPO, Partner, Boehmert & Boehmert Partner, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow
Ex.Convener Member, IPR Policy Think Tank, (Germany) Garrett & Dunner LLP (USA)
GOI and Chair, FICCI-IPR Committee (India)
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John Cabeca Commodore Amit Rastogi (Retd.) Dr. Mohan Dewan

United States Intellectual Property Counselor Chairman & Managing Director, Principal, R.K. Dewan & Co.
for South Asia, U.S. Embassy - New Delhi (India) National Research Development Corporation, (India)
MoST (India)

Dr. Malathi Lakshmikumaran Hari Subramaniam Jatin Trivedi

Director, Lakshmikumaran and Sridharan President – APAA International and Founding & Senior Partner, Y. J. Trivedi & Co.
(India) Managing Partner at Subramaniam & Associates (India)
(India)

01:00 PM – 01:45 PM LUNCH BREAK AND NETWORKING SESSION

INNOVATION AND THE QUEST FOR A SUSTAINABLE SOCIETY

01:45 PM – 01:55 PM
(PRE-RECORDED VIDEO MESSAGES)

Antonio Campinos
President, European Patent Office
(Germany)

SPECIAL ADDRESS
01:55 PM – 02:00 PM
(PRE-RECORDED VIDEO MESSAGES)

Etienne Sanz de Acedo

CEO, International Trademark
Association (INTA)
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02:00 PM – 03:40 PM EXPLORING EMERGING PATENT TRENDS: SHAPING THE FUTURE OF INNOVATION

Sherry M. Knowles, Esq,

Principal
Knowles Intellectual Property Strategies, LLC (USA)

Dr. Almesha L. Campbell

Dr. Venkat Reddy Donthireddy AUTM Board Chair (2023 - 2024) and
Senior Advocate (India) AVP for Research and Economic Development
Jackson State University (USA)

Dr. Anju Khanna

Partner & Head - Patents
Lall & Sethi (India)

Essenese Obhan
Managing Partner
Obhan & Associates (India)

03:40 PM – 04:00 PM DREAMING BIG WITH IP IS POSSIBLE

Scott Frank
President - Intellectual Property
AT&T and Chair & President at Global
Intellectual Property Alliance (USA)

04:00 PM – 04:30 PM COFFEE BREAK AND NETWORKING SESSION

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04:30 PM – 06:00 PM WHAT’S THE IDEAL TECHNOPARK

Anton Melnikov
Senior Lawyer
Gorodissky & Partners (Russia)

Yuri Kuznetsov Anand Saini

Partner, Head of Patent Practice, Regional Director
Gorodissky & Partners (Russia) Gorodissky & Partners (Russia)

Galina Mikheeva
Deputy Director – Head of International Cooperation
Division, Management and Legal Department
Eurasian Patent Office (Russia)

06:00 PM – 06:20 PM

Dr. Daniel Herrmann

Partner, Boehmert & Boehmert (Germany)

“FTO – LEGAL IMPLICATIONS AND INTEGRATION INTO A COMPANY’S

BUSINESS FLOW”

06:20 PM – 07:00 PM WIPF HONOURS & RECOGNITION

07:00 PM Onwards COCKTAIL RECEPTION

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09:00 AM - 10:20 AM
MOCK TRIAL: ANATOMY OF A PATENT INFRINGEMENT SUIT
ROOM : KRISHNA

Rishi Aneja Shatadal Ghosh Kapil Kumar Bharath S

Senior Associate, K&S Partners Senior Associate, K&S Partners Senior Associate, K&S Partners Senior Associate, K&S Partners
(India) (India) (India) (India)

Karan Singh
Associate, K&S Partners
(India)

10:20 AM - 10:30 AM BREAK

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND PROTECTION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE
ROOM : KABINI

Adriana Butu Niccolo Ferretti Julia Bittner Aparna Watal

Intellectual Property Manager, Partner, Nunziante Magrone Attorney-at-law, df-mp Special Counsel, Baker &
Dubai Electricity & (Italy) (Germany) McKenzie (Australia)
Water Authority - DEWA (UAE)
Karen Abraham
Partner, Shearn Delamore & Co.
(Malaysia)

Prof. (Dr.) Gigimon V. S. Yahaya Maikori Prof. A V Narsimha Rao Vijayalakshmi Natarajan
DPIIT IPR Chair Professor, Senior Partner, Law Allianz Director, The ICFAI Law School, Senior Director, Legal
Maharashtra National Law (Nigeria) Hyderabad (India) HARMAN India (India)
University Mumbai (India)
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10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
IP FAIRNESS: UNPACKING FRAND AND SEP AGREEMENTS
ROOM : KAVERI

Dr. Joo Sup Kim Christian Dubuc Keith Mallinson Dr. Vijay Kumar Singh
Corporate IP Consulting & Founder, President and CEO Managing Partner Professor & Dean, Faculty of Law
Management/IP Advisor, Harfang IP (USA) WiseHarbor (UK) SRM University, Sonipat (India)
LX Semicon/R&D Lab (Korea)

Prof. Douglas Ginsburg

Judge Ginsburg, US Court of Appeals,
Washington, DC and George Mason
University (USA)

Dr. Vikas Agrawal

General Manager & Head,
Global IPM, Unison
Pharmaceuticals Pvt. Ltd.
(India)

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND BLOCKCHAIN – FRIEND OR FOE FOR IP?

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
THE PRACTICALITIES, POLICY AND IMPACT OF PROTECTING, EXPLOITING AND LITIGATING
ROOM : PENNAR1
EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES

Dr. Indranil Sarkar Dr. Jakob Valvoda Seth Hays Manish Sinha
Principal, Fish & Richardson Partner, Boehmert & Boehmert Managing Director, APAC GATES Founder, PatSeer
(USA) (Germany) (Taiwan) Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
(India)

Rory J. Radding
Partner, Maschoff Brennan
(USA)

Kirk A. Sigmon Gunjan Agarwal Vikrant Rana

IP Attorney, Banner Witcoff Partner, Fox Rothschild, LLP Managing Partner, S. S. Rana & Co.
(USA) (USA) (India)
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10:30 AM - 12:30 PM GLOBAL BEST PRACTICES IN ACADEMIC-INDUSTRY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

ROOM : PENNAR2 MANAGEMENT

Dr. Victor Lau Dr. Almesha L. Campbell Dr. Anji Miller CLP Dr. Sami Bashir
Head of Venture Acceleration AUTM Board Chair (2023 - 2024) RTTP, Programme Director - Director, Technology Management
ORKTS, The Chinese University and AVP for Research and Translational Fellowships and Innovation, Khalifa University
of Hong Kong (Hong Kong) Economic Development LifeArc (UK) (UAE)
Jackson State University (USA)
Dr. Yatin Karpe
Assistant Vice President
Texas State University (USA)

Dr. H. Purushotham Harshada Wadkar-Mukherjee Dr. Amaresh Panda

Chair Professor of IP Senior Manager - BD & Tech Head Technology Transfer Office,
Andhra University (India) Transfer (Emerging Tech), KIIT-TBI Technology Transfer
IKP Knowledge Park (India) Office (KIIT-TBI TTO) (India)

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
BEST PRACTICES TO ENGAGE INVENTORS AND HARVEST HIGH-VALUE PATENTS
ROOM : KRISHNA

Sukla Chandra Balwant Rawat Dr. Balu Gupta Pranay Prabhugaunkar

Senior Managing Director - Head of Intellectual Property Patent Counsel, Promerus Founding Member
Licensing, General Electric Mercedes-Benz R&D (India) LLC (USA) Menezes Gaonkar LLP
(India) (India)

Dr. Shankar Venugopal

Vice President, Mahindra &
Mahindra Limited (India)

Deepak Julien Amit Kumar Agrawal Parminder Singh Sethi Pankaj Kumar Bhagat
Director - Intellectual Property Senior Product Manager Principal Software Engineer Program Head-IPR
OLA Electric Mobility Patent Specialist Dell Technologies Bangalore Mastek Limited
(India) Motorola Mobility India Pvt. Ltd. (India) (India)
(India)
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12:30 PM - 01:30 PM LUNCH BREAK AND NETWORKING SESSION

01:30 PM - 03:30 PM
UNVEILING THE POWER OF TRADE SECRETS
ROOM : KABINI

Dr. Stephan Wolke Mark L. Hogge Yuzo Wada Tarun Khurana

Chief Executive Officer, Partner, Dentons US LLP Partner, Uchida & Samejima Partner, Khurana and Khurana
Thyssenkrupp IP GmbH (USA) Law Firm (Japan) (India)
(Germany)

Prof. Dr. Heinz Goddar

Partner, Boehmert & Boehmert
(Germany)

Clive D. Thorne Rashmi Mishra Dhwani Rao

Partner, McCarthy Denning Group General Counsel Head IP Legal Counsel
(UK) ACG Worldwide (India) Nestle India Limited (India)

01:30 PM - 03:30 PM
SPOTLIGHT ON EU UNITARY PATENT & UNIFIED PATENT COURT
ROOM : KAVERI

Dr. Fritz Wetzel Dr. Carl-Richard Haarmann

Patent Attorney, CEO Partner, Boehmert & Boehmert
BlackIP Legal (Germany) (Germany)

Olivier Corticchiato
Founder, Corti-IP
(Switzerland)
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01:30 PM - 03:30 PM
FROM PATENTS TO PROFITS: STRATEGIES FOR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SUCCESS
ROOM : PENNAR1

Debodhonyaa Sengupta Samir Dixit Sangeeta Gandhi Shah Ramesh Ganapathy

Partner, Dentons (USA) CEO, Wiinvest Chief Executive Officer Principal Attorney
(Singapore) Brooks Kushman (USA) Mission Legal (India)

Pallavi Shah
Managing Director, Mobity LLC
(USA)

Aditya Kochhar Dr. Poonam Raghuvanshi Dr. Alka Mehta

Managing Associate, Lall & Sethi Founder, ipEssentia Intellectual Co-Founder, ipEssentia Intellectual
(India) Property Firm (India) Property Firm (India)

01:30 PM - 03:30 PM
INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATIONS
ROOM : PENNAR2

Dr. Shiv Kumar

Director, Extramural Research & Intellectual Property Rights, DRDO (India)

“THRUST IN TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS IN INDIA”

Dr. Dipanjan Nag

President, Innovaito LLC (USA)

“INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY FOR CREATING A SUCCESSFUL

INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM”
Sumit Kapoor
Global Brand Relations Manager
Amazon (India)

Dr. Bijay Kumar Sahu

Senior Regional Manager & Head (IPFC & TISC), National Research Development
Corporation (NRDC), Govt of India (India)

“TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER AND ITS CHALLENGES”

Olga Pyataeva
Head of Digital Economy and Entrepreneurship Department, Russian State Academy
of Intellectual Property (Russia)
“TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER AS A DRIVER OF INNOVATIVE
DEVELOPMENT”
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Glen Gardner
President, Gardner Innovation Search Partners (USA)

“GROWING YOUR CAREER IN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

LICENSING”

Hiroki Watanabe
Director, IPR, JETRO (Japan)

“BEST PRACTICES OF JPO”

Yosuke Sugata
Manager - IP, Canon Singapore Pte. Ltd. (Singapore)

01:30 PM - 03:30 PM
VALUE-ADDING AND MEANINGFUL IP STRATEGIES
ROOM : KRISHNA

Subhadip Sarkar Lakshminarayanan R Dr. Sudha Kannan Dr. Shamim Ahmad

Vice President - Legal and Director & Head - Intellectual Property Vice President (IP & Statutory Director and Head – IP & Legal
Corporate Affairs, Cognizant Samsung Electronics (India) Compliance-R&D), Grasim Aurigene Oncology Limited
Technology Solutions (India) Industries Limited (India) (India)

Vinod Kumar
Founder, Silver Bullet IP
Consulting, Inc (Canada)

Ram Mohan Sitaraman Dr. Nimisha Pathare Dr. Sanjay Bhardwaj Dr. Paromita Ghosh
Head - Intellectual Property, Legal Intellectual Capital Manager Scientist 'G' and Head, Senior Leader - IP
Tata Technologies Dow Chemical International Pvt Ltd Centre for Technology Acquisition Duracell (India)
(India) (India) and Transfer (CTAT),
International Advanced Research
Centre (ARCI) Hyderabad (India)
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03:30 PM - 04:00 PM COFFEE BREAK AND NETWORKING SESSION

04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATIONS
ROOM : KABINI

Joanna T. Brougher
Owner and Principal, BioPharma Law Group (USA)

“MEANS PLUS FUNCTION CLAIMS AS A SOLUTION TO

THE WRITTEN DESCRIPTION PROBLEM”

Gene V. Vinokur
Chief Patent Counsel, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL) (USA)
Subhajit Saha
Head - Legal & Intellectual Property “POSITIVE PATENT PROTECTION OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH”
Resolute Group (India)

Carlos A. Parra
Partner/Head of Asia Office, OlarteMoure & Asociados (Japan)

“THE ART OF PATENT MONETIZATION: TECHNIQUES AND

TRENDS”

Dr. Xavier Pillai

Shareholder, Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd. (USA)
“PRACTICE POINTERS FOR STRENGTHENING PATENTS
BASED ON HIGH COURT OPINIONS”

Richard Milchior
Partner, Herald (France)
“NFTS YESTERDAY TODAY AND TOMORROW WHAT ARE THE
VIEWS OF THE IP PROFESSIONNALS?”

Rachna Nath
Founder and CEO, DRIPBL Steam Analytics LLC (USA)

“CONVERGENCE EDUCATION USING INNOVATION AND

ENTREPRENEURSHIP AS A TOOL TO ACHIEVE UN SDG4
GOALS IN 2030”
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04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
PATENT LICENSING FOR IOT
ROOM : KAVERI

Dr. Sheetal Chopra Keith Mallinson Christian Dubuc Manish Sanwal

Director & India Lead - IPR Policy Managing Partner Founder, President and CEO Associate Partner
Ericsson India Ltd. (India) WiseHarbor (UK) Harfang IP (USA) L.S. Davar & Co. (India)

Sven Torringer
Director, Senior Counsel Legal &
Business, Sisvel (Hong Kong)

Gopi Trivedi Madhusudan S T

Senior Partner Partner
Y. J. Trivedi & Co. (India) K&S Partners (India)
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04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATIONS
ROOM : PENNAR1

Prof. Anil K. Gupta

Founder, Honey Bee Network, SRISTI, GIAN & NIF (India)

“CREATING KNOWLEDGE PUBLIC GOODS FOR ACHIEVING

SDGS: GIAN'S OPEN DATABASE OF A MILLION ABANDONED
US PATENTS”

Dr. Amarendra Samal

Joint Controller of Patents & Designs, Indian Patent Office, Chennai (India)
"NEED BASED DELIVERY OF PUBLIC SERVICES BY
D. Calab Gabriel INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OFFICE (IPO), INDIA"
Managing Partner
Lex IP Care (India)

S. Thangapandian
Joint Controller of Patents & Designs, Indian Patent Office, Chennai (India)

“NURTURING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY (IP) ECOSYSTEM IN

INDIA THROUGH REFORMS – GOVERNMENT INITIATIVES”

Dr. Henry Tsai

Division-Chief Judge, Taiwan Shih-lin District Court (Taiwan)
“INTRODUCTION OF THE IP TRIAL IN TAIWAN SINCE
AUG. 30 2023, AT WHICH A NEW AMENDEMENT OF IP TRIAL
ACT TOOK EFFECT”

Dr. Aaradhana Sadasivam

Senior Manager, Intellectual Property, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory Limited (Singapore)
“AGRITECH – DEVELOPING NEW PLANT VARIETIES FOR THE
CHANGING FACE OF AGRICULTURE ACROSS THE WORLD”

Patrick Desmond
Special Counsel Intellectual Property, SCG Chemicals Public Company Limited (Thailand)

“THE JDA IS SIGNED! HAPPINESS OR HANGOVER?”

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04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATIONS
ROOM : PENNAR2

Justice (Retd.) Dr. Vineet Kothari

Former Acting Chief Justice, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India (India)

“ADR & IPR: EDGE OVER COURT LITIGATION”

Prof. Dr. Heinz Goddar

Partner, Boehmert & Boehmert (Germany)

Dr. Mohan Dewan “DELIBERATIONS ON THE MODERNIZATION OF THE GERMAN

Principal PATENT ACT”
R. K. Dewan & Co.
(India)

Dr. Louise Boisen

Counsellor, Intellectual Property Rights, Royal Danish Embassy (India)

“USING IPR TO SUPPORT GREEN TRANSITION AND

ENCOURAGE EXPORT OF GREEN TECHNOLOGIES”

Christine Bonvallet
Director, PCT International Cooperation Division, World Intellectual Property Organization
(WIPO) (Switzerland)
“PROTECTING YOUR INVENTIONS INTERNATIONALLY WITH
THE PATENT COOPERATION TREATY (PCT)”

Denis Croze
Director, Madrid Information and Promotion Division, World Intellectual Property Organization
(WIPO) (Switzerland)
“MADRID SYSTEM FOR THE INTERNATIONAL REGISTRATION
OF MARKS”

Victor Barrett
Attorney-at-Law/ Assistant Superintendent of Police, Jamaica Constabulary Force (Jamaica)

“FROM PHYSICAL TO DIGITAL: A NEW ERA IN

COUNTERFEITING”
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04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
THE RIGHT IP STRATEGY CAN MAXIMIZE VALUE: IPO, M&A, ENTERPRISE
ROOM : KRISHNA

Dr. Stephan Wolke Kalyan Deshpande Nitin Kaushik Aahit Gaba

Chief Executive Officer, Acting Deputy Chief Judge, USPTO – Partner Senior Counsel - Open Source
Thyssenkrupp Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Dentons Link Legal Program Office (IP Group)
Intellectual Property (USA) (India) Hewlett-Packard Enterprise
(Germany) (India)
Prof. Dr. Mei-Hsin Wang
CEO, BioMedical & Technology
Application Association
(Taiwan)

Neha Goel Dr. Ayan Roy-Chowdhury Dr. Madhuri (Mani) Roy

IP Manager, ABB Principal, Fish & Richardson Partner, Cooley LLP
(India) (USA) (USA)

06:00 PM Onwards
IP QUIZ
ROOM : KRISHNA

Ajay Mehrotra
Founder
Rohan Consultancy (India)
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09:00 AM - 10:20 AM
SECURING THE DIGITAL REALM: PRIVACY AND DATA PROTECTION INSIGHTS
ROOM : KABINI

Elizabeth Chien-Hale Beatriz Ruiz-Beato V. Rajesh Kumar Vijayashankar Nagaraja

Partner, Appleton Luff Head of Global Data Protection Senior Group Manager Rao (Naavi)
(USA) NEC Corporation (Spain) Privacy and Data Protection Office Chairman, Foundation of Data
Infosys (India) Protection Professionals in India
John Douglas Graham (FDPPI) (India)
CEO, Ideation Inc. (USA)

Shobana Iyer
Barrister FCIArb
Swan Chambers (UK)

09:00 AM - 10:20 AM
PATENT DRAFTING: BEST PRACTICE TIPS BEFORE THE EUROPEAN PATENT OFFICE (EPO)
ROOM : KAVERI

Dr. Craig Turner Leonita Paulraj

Partner Senior Associate
European and UK Patent Attorney European and UK Patent Attorney
AA Thornton (UK) AA Thornton (UK)

09:00 AM - 10:20 AM THE DESPERATE NEED FOR STANDARDS FOR IP INFRINGEMENT DETECTION TOOLS AND
ROOM : PENNAR1 METHODS IN LITIGATION

Balasubramanian L Bishwarup Chakrabarti Colby B. Springer Vikramjeet Singh

DGM - Intellectual Property General Counsel Principal, Polsinelli LLP Managing Associate
Management, SUN Mobility Eros International Media (USA) L S Davar & Co. (India)
Private Limited (India) Limited (India)

Manish Kumar
Principal Auditor
Infosys Limited (India)
Manan Aeron
Principal IP Professional
GE Appliances, a Haier Company (India)
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09:00 AM - 10:20 AM
INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATIONS
ROOM : PENNAR2

Dr. Manisha Shridhar

Regional Advisor, Intellectual Property Rights, Trade and Public Health, SEARO, World Health
Organization (India)

“LICENSING PRACTICES FOR ACCESS TO MEDICAL PRODUCTS”

Partha S. Chakraborty
IPR Analyst, Member of Copyright Society RMPL under DPIIT Govt of India (India)
Prof. Dr. V.C. Vivekanandan “COPYRIGHT SOCIETY AND ROLE OF GOVERNMENT VIS A VIS
Vice Chancellor, Hidayatullah National
MUCH NEEDED AMENDMENT IN CERTAIN PROVISIONS IN LAW”
Law University (India)

Dev Kumar Parmar

Principal Director, Parmars (UK)

“THE ROLE OF IP FOR ATHLETES AND IMAGE RIGHTS”

Reema Sahni Mediratta

Head, i-TTO, FITT, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (India)
“FUTURE OF IP: TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER & SPIN OFF
CREATION”

Kanwal Rai
Advisor, Softqube Technologies (India)

“LEVERAGING AI AND MACHINE LEARNING IN PATENT

MANAGEMENT: TRANSFORMING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
PROCESSES”
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09:00 AM - 10:20 AM
AI FOR MASS OUTREACH OF IP TO INNOVATORS WITH LIVE CASE STUDY
ROOM : KRISHNA

Scott Frank Patrick J. Coyne Nilesh Puntambekar

President - Intellectual Property Partner, Finnegan, Henderson VP - Innovation & Custom
at AT&T and Chair & President at Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP Implementations, XLSCOUT
Global Intellectual Property (USA) (USA)
Alliance (USA)
Jitin Talwar
Founder
XLSCOUT - TT Consultants
(India)

10:20 AM - 10:30 AM BREAK

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
PATENTING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-RELATED INVENTIONS FROM THE US PERSPECTIVE
ROOM : KABINI

Dr. Ayan Roy-Chowdhury Dr. Shantanu Basu Manav Das Renju Harikumar
Principal Principal, Basu Intellectual Property Partner Global Head - Innovation
Fish & Richardson PC (USA) McDonnell Boehnen Protection Accenture
(USA) Hulbert & Berghoff (USA) (India)

Lakshika Joshi
Global IP Counsel
Capgemini Engineering
(India)

Praneetha K. Rasbag Tuhin Subhra Singharoy Chaity Banerjee

Founder, Prasa IP, LLP IP Counsel and Patent Center of Manager - IP Global
(India) Excellence Manager, Avery Dennison Element Solutions Inc. (India)
Corporation (India)
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2024 AGENDA

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
IPR POLICY, ITS IMPLEMENTATION AND PRACTICAL IMPACT ON EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTES
ROOM : KAVERI

Dr. Sujatha S. Patil Prof. Dr. G.B. Reddy Ashutosh Pastor Prof. Dr. Tabrez Ahmad
Associate Professor & Principal IPR Chair Professor Sr. Manager and Head - Incubation Professor of Law, Maulana Azad
of Law at School of Business & Osmania University FITT, Indian Institute of National Urdu University (MANUU)
Law, Navrachana University Hyderabad (India) Technology Delhi (India) (India)
(India)

Dr. B.P. Singh

Former Chairman In-Charge (IPAB)
and Former Joint Controller
of Patents & Designs (India)

Sajid Sheikh Satish Kumar Yadav

Assistant Professor & Coordinator Assistant Director, Ministry of Micro
CRIP, Maharashtra National Law Small and Medium Enterprises
University Mumbai (India) Govt of India (India)

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
BUILDING UP EFFECTIVE IP PROTECTION FOR A MULTINATIONAL EFFICIENTLY
ROOM : PENNAR1

Dr. Akhil Prasad Sanjit Kaur Batra Dr. Alpesh Pathak Faiz Rahman
Board Member, Group General Group Vice President - Legal & Global IP Head, Intas (Accord) Head - IP, Infosys Limited
Counsel and Company Secretary Legal Head - India, Pharmaceuticals (India) (India)
Boeing (India) Cummins India Limited (India)

Bharath M.S.
Founder, KRIA Law
(India)

Dr. Tarakranjan Gupta Mayank Gaurav Vandana Prabhu

Senior Principal Engineer Patent Counsel Asia Head - Intellectual Property
Baxter International Inc. Texas Instruments Rakuten Symphony
(India) (India) (India)
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10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
CHANGING IP LANDSCAPE AS A RESULT OF AI TOOLS CHATGPT
ROOM : PENNAR2

Dr. Ravi Vaikuntachar Dr. Senthil Chandiran Abhishek Mani Santhosh Metri
Director - Intellectual Property Head - Intellectual Property Senior Director Director - Product Strategy (IP, M&A)
Honeywell (India) Ashland, Inc. (India) Boston Consulting Group (BCG) Moody's Analytics (UK)
(India)

Saumya Bareja
Group Head – Digital Capability
Procter & Gamble (Singapore)

Sanil Khatri Siddhant Chamola

Local Principal Associate Partner
Baker & McKenzie (Singapore) Anand and Anand (India)

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
AI FRAMEWORKS AND IMPLICATIONS AROUND DATA PROTECTION LAWS WORLDWIDE
ROOM : KRISHNA

Ashish Chandra Lakshmidevi Somanath Dr. Arul George Scaria Dr. Ajai Garg
General Counsel Partner, Surana & Surana Associate Professor, National Law School Director Digital Law
CoinSwitch (India) International Attorneys (India) Bangalore (India) and Compliance
Anand & Anand (India)

K Subodh Kumar
Head, Intellectual Property Services
Tata Consultancy Services (India)

Navneet Hrishikesan Dr. Sachin Kumar Agrawal K Satish Kumar Patrick J. Coyne
Executive Director - Legal Assistant Director AI Group Chief Legal Officer Partner, Finnegan, Henderson
Asia Pacific & Japan COE Innovation Intellect Design Arena Ltd Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP
Cisco Systems (India) (Centre of Excellence), PepsiCo (India) (India) (USA)
Private Limited (India)

12:30 PM - 01:30 PM LUNCH BREAK AND NETWORKING SESSION

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2024 AGENDA

01:30 PM - 3:30 PM AI BLACKBOX - WITH QUICKLY EVOLVING, GALLOPING TECHNOLOGIES, CAN AI BE THE
ROOM : KABINI PROPRIETOR OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES IT CREATES?

Jyothi V K Neeraj Panchal Anuradha Maheshwari Nitin Sharma

General Counsel and Senior Intellectual Property Founder Technology Counsel
Vice President - Legal, Aditya Birla Counsel, John Deere (India) LexMantis (India) (Sr. Director, Tech and
Fashion and Retail Limited (India) Patent Counsel)
Qualcomm (India)
Aneesh Mehta
Head of Legal India Development
Center, Microsoft (India)

Dr. Archana Chugh Vinayak Katkalmbekar Jude Umeh

Professor, Indian Institute of Senior Lead - IPR Director
Technology Delhi (India) Bert Labs (India) Salesforce (UK)

01:30 PM - 3:30 PM
UNRAVELING PATENT LITIGATION CHALLENGES IN INDIA'S LEGAL LANDSCAPE
ROOM : KAVERI

Hemant Singh Prof. N.K. Goyal Vindhya S. Mani Manish Bhangale

Managing Partner President & Chairman Emeritus Partner, Lakshmikumaran & Patent Counsel
Inttl Advocare (India) CMAI Association of India (India) Sridharan (India) ITC Limited (India)

Chitra K Iyer
Director / Licensing Program
Leader, Royal Philips (India)

Adarsh Ramanujan
Founder, Law Chambers of
Adarsh Ramanujan (India)
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2024 AGENDA

01:30 PM - 3:30 PM COPYRIGHT IN THE DIGITAL ERA - EMERGING ISSUES IN MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT
ROOM : PENNAR1 INDUSTRY

Sowmya Chowdhury Sundeep Singh 'Bobby' Bedi Lohita Sujith Dr. G. R. Raghavender
CEO, Recorded Music Founder & Managing Director Sr. Director - Copyright & Digital Senior Consultant (IPR) and Former
Performance Ltd. (India) Kaleidoscope Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. Economy, Motion Picture Joint Secretary, CIPAM, Department
(India) Association (India) for Promotion of Industry and
Internal Trade (DPIIT), Govt. of India
Sanjay Tandon
Founder & CEO, Indian Singers' and
Musicians' Rights Association (ISAMRA)
(India)

Ramakrishna Damodharan Prof. Dr. Jakub Kepinski Jenil Shah

Managing Director Professor, Adam Mickiewicz Asst. Manager - Legal, IMI
Adipven (M) Sdn. Bhd. University (Poland) Indian Music Industry (India)
(Malaysia)

01:30 PM - 3:30 PM
REDOING IP STRATEGY IN THE ERA OF TECHNOLOGY TRANSFORMATION
ROOM : PENNAR2

Dr. Aravind Chinchure Mohammed Faisal Siddharth Karkhanis Sreekar Gadde

Founder and CEO General Manager & Head IPR Head of Corporate Intellectual Property Managing Partner
QLeap Academy (India) Tata Motors Limited (India) Robert Bosch (India) BlueTree VC (USA)

Vaibhav Khanna
Head - Intellectual Property
Sterlite Technologies Limited
(India)

Panduranga Acharya Pulkit Doger

General Counsel Partner, Lakshmikumaran and
Zepto (India) Sridharan Attorneys (India)
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01:30 PM - 3:30 PM
IP ASSET MANAGEMENT - A STRATEGIC PERSPECTIVE
ROOM : KRISHNA

R A Tiwari Dr. Ravi Tumkur Satish Tiwary Chinniah Dharmalingam

Former Deputy Registrar of Patent Counsel, Versuni India Head - Intellectual Property Head – IP Centre of Excellence
Trademarks & GI Home Solutions Limited (India) Airbus (India) Eaton India Innovation Centre
Indian Patent Office (India) (India)

Dr. Bejoy Namath

Global Leader - Intellectual Property
Momentive Performance Materials
(India)

Ashutosh Kulkarni Sridevi Krishnan Dr. Pravin Shejul Ashima Katara

Director Engineering Head-Corporate Intellectual Property Head - Intellectual Property General Manager - Patents
GE Appliances Piramal Pharma Global (India) OmniActive Health Technologies Hindustan Unilever Limited
a Haier Company (India) Limited (India) (India)

03:30 PM - 04:00 PM COFFEE BREAK AND NETWORKING SESSION

04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
FINDING PATENTABILITY: HOW TO PATENT YOUR INVENTION IN A CROWDED SPACE
ROOM : KABINI

Ronak Madhani Bimalesh Singh Sujith Subramanian Anand Barnabas

Senior Patent Counsel Patent & OSS Counsel (APAC) General Manager, Multimedia & IoT Practice Head, Patent (Mechanical &
CEAT Limited (India) Cohesity (India) Samsung R&D (India) Automotive Division), De Penning
& De Penning (India)

Madhav Kulkarni
Global Senior Intellectual Capital
Manager, Dow (India)

Anand Shetty T S Sharat Dr. W. M. Dhumane

AVP & Head of IP, Reliance Partner, Director, and Head- Hi-Tech Former Sr. Jt. Controller of Patent &
Consumer Products Limited Patent Practice Designs and Advisor - Centre for
(India) Khuranan and Khurana | IIPRD (India) Research in IP (CRIP), Maharashtra
National Law University (MNLU)
Mumbai
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2024 AGENDA

04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
AI AND CYBERSECURITY: A NEW ERA
ROOM : KAVERI

Agnidipta Sarkar Dr. Prashant Mali Lahar Appaiah Deepika Chaudhry

Vice President CISO Advisory President and Founder Legal Counsel Executive Director Legal APAC
ColorTokens Inc. (India) Cyber Law Consulting IBM India (India) Xerox India (India)
(Advocates & Attorneys) (India)

Sachin Garg
Chief Information Officer
TalentOla (India)

Kumar Anjani
Head / Lead- IPR
Panasonic India (India)

04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
PRELIMINARY INJUNCTIONS IN PHARMA IP INFRINGEMENT LITIGATIONS
ROOM : PENNAR1

Aastha Sharma Vikramsinh Yaadav Jeremy Edwards Dr. Amar Desai

Patent Attorney Litigation Head, Law, Patents & Partner General Manager - Global IP
L.S. Davar & Co. (India) Compliance - CropScience (South Asia), Procopio (USA) Zydus Lifesciences Limited
Bayer CropScience Limited (India) (India)

Dr. Vivek Kashyap

Associate Director (Lead)-Patents
Roche (India)

Pratik Chaudhary
Partner - Litigation
Y. J. Trivedi & Co. (India)
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2024 AGENDA

04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
BALANCING ACT - PROTECTION AND ENFORCEMENT OF IP RIGHTS
ROOM : PENNAR2

Anubhav Jain Arindom Hazarika Dr. Reshma Kurangi Vinodh Mewani

Head - Brand Protection Sr. Counsel, Trademarks & Brand Senior Process Lead, Intellectual Property Sr Principal Engineer/
Jockey (Page Industries Ltd) Protection, Western Digital Rights, Arco Lab Pvt. Ltd. (India) Head - IP & KM
(India) (India) Mahindra & Mahindra
(India)

Shridhaar Parundekar
Head - Legal, IP & Compliance
Ashirvad Pipes - an Aliaxis Company
(India)

Rowena Coelho Suriya Prabha Padmanaabhan Pankaj Monga Vijayalakshmy (Viji) Malkani
Marketplace Development Director of Programs CEO and Practice Head – Brand Senior IP, Brand Protection and Foods
Manager, Transnational Alliance to Combat Protection, SPAN Consulting Counsel, Hindustan Unilever Limited
Hewlett-Packard (India) Illicit Trade (India) (Singapore) (India)

04:00 PM - 06:00 PM IP STRATEGY FOR STARTUPS AND FOSTERING AN INNOVATION CULTURE IN

ROOM : KRISHNA ORGANIZATIONS

Dr. Lorenz Kaiser Prof. Parameshwar P. Iyer Dr. Hemang Shah Dr. Sridhar Prasangi
Senior Legal Counsel Professor and Chairman, Intellectual Director of Engineering AVP (Head of IPM Dept)
General Electric Aviation Property and Technology Licensing, Qualcomm India Pvt. Ltd. Optimus Drugs Private Limited
Advanced Technology Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (India) (A Sekhmet Pharmaventures
(Germany) (India) Company) (India)

Viswajanani Jitendra Sattigeri

Scientist-H and Head
CSIR-Traditional Knowledge
Digital Library (CSIR-TKDL) Unit
(India)

Padmavati Manchikanti Ramesh Kumar Verma Sudha Munireddy Amit Koshal

Professor - Rajiv Gandhi School AGM - Intellectual Property Senior Director – Legal Founding Partner
of Intellectual Property Law, TATA Chemicals Ltd. (India) Carelon Global Solutions Photon Legal (India)
Indian Institute of Technology India LLP (India)
Kharagpur (India)
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2024 AGENDA

09:00 AM - 10:20 AM
OPEN SOURCE & ITS IMPACT ON NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN SOFTWARE
ROOM : KABINI

Hema Seetharamaiah Shuvajit Mitra Biju K. Nair Ankur Pandey

Practice Head Legal Director- IP Licensing India Representative Intellectual Property Counsel
Intellectual Property & Global Lead- Open Source Open Invention Network Robert Bosch
Wipro Limited (India) Capgemini (India) (India) (India)

Dr. Aloknath De
Adjunct Prof, IISc-Bangalore and
CEO, Cyber-Physical Systems Co.
(India)

Venkatesh Hariharan Kavitha Gupta

Public Policy Advisor Director- Compliance Officer
FOSS United (India) SAP (India)

09:00 AM - 10:20 AM
THE TOOLS AND PROCESSES OF SOFTWARE FORENSICS
ROOM : KAVERI

Debolina Partap Dinesh Jotwani Gaurav Vutts Maria Madhanikka Victor

Global Group General Counsel Co-Managing Partner Counsel Head Legal & Secretarial Compliance
Wockhardt Limited (India) Jotwani Associates (India) Parinam Law Associates (India) Mystifly Consulting India
Private Limited (India)

Yuri Kuznetsov
Partner
Head of Patent Practice
Gorodissky & Partners
(Russia)
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09:00 AM - 10:20 AM
NAVIGATING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CHALLENGES IN THE SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY
ROOM : PENNAR1

Dr. S K Murthy Nitin Sharma Nirav N. Desai Sonal Mishra

Director - IP, Intel Technology Technology Counsel (Sr. Director, Director, Sterne, Kessler Partner & Patent Attorney
India Pvt. Ltd. (India) Tech and Patent Counsel) Goldstein & Fox PLLC (USA) L.S. Davar & Co. (India)
Qualcomm (India)

Christian A. Camarce
Director, Sterne, Kessler
Goldstein & Fox PLLC (USA)

Saurabh Vaid Naveen Suriya

Associate Partner Partner
LexOrbis (India) K&S Partners (India)

09:00 AM - 10:20 AM
PUBLISHING, PATENTING OR TRADE SECRET – A COMMON DILEMMA
ROOM : PENNAR2

Subhadip Sarkar Dhruv Joshi Dr. Dara Ajay Rashmi Mishra

Vice President - Legal and Lead - M&A Head - IP, Technology Transfer & Group General Counsel
Corporate Affairs, Cognizant Robert Bosch (India) Licensing, Indian Institute of CS & CPO, ACG World (India)
Technology Solutions (India) Technology, Madras (India)

Prof. Dr. Anindya Sircar

Chair Professor - IPR
NALSAR University of Law
(India)

Nirmal Thangappan Pravin Kamble Dr. Veena Arora Dr. Kavita Arora
Sr. Manager - Patents Head- Patents Head - Intellectual Property Partner
OLA Electric Technologies Abbott Healthcare Pvt. Ltd. SRF Limited (India) K&S Partners (India)
(India) (India)
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09:00 AM - 10:20 AM
ROLE OF AN IN-HOUSE COUNSEL IN STRATEGIZING IP AND CREATING BRAND VALUE
ROOM : KRISHNA

Ekank Mehra Chirag Gupta Anubha Pant Chhavi Jain

Associate Director - Legal Senior Manager - Legal Director – Legal and Corporate Affairs Senior Manager/ IP Counsel
Headout (India) Tata SIA Airlines Limited (Vistara) InMobi Technology Services UltraTech Cement Limited
(India) Private Limited (India) (Aditya Birla Group) (India)

Dr. Murthy N Kotra

Head - Intellectual Property
Grasim Industries Limited - Aditya
Birla Group (India)

Madhavkumar D. Trivedi Mandar Chandrachud

Associate Director - IPR AVP & Head - Legal
Arcolab Limited (India) Godrej Industries Limited (India)

10:20 AM - 10:30 AM BREAK

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
VACCINES AND IP PROTECTION - A PROFIT AND LOSS STATEMENT FOR COMPANIES?
ROOM : KABINI

Dr. Gururaj Bagalkotker Dr. Sadhana Srivastava Dmitry Klimenko Dr. Markus Engelhard
General Manager & Scientist 'G', Indian Council of Patent Attorney Partner, Boehmert &
Head - Global IP Product Portfolio Medical Research Gorodissky & Partners Boehmert (Germany)
& Corporate Strategy Head Quarter, New Delhi (India) (Russia)
Panacea Biotec (India)

Bindu Sharma
Founder & CEO
Origiin IP Solutions LLP (India)

Dr. Ramani V. Marakani

Associate Partner
LexOrbis (India)
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10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
PROTECTING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND PRIVACY RIGHTS IN DIGITAL ASSETS
ROOM : KAVERI

Anubhav Kapoor Harish Suryavanshi Priya Rao Ankita Sharma

Director of Legal Affairs General Counsel Founder General Manager - Legal
Ford India Pvt. Ltd. (India) ColorTokens Inc. (India) Priya Rao & Associates (India) Honasa Consumer Pvt Ltd
(Mamaearth) (India)

Ravi Rajiv Upadhyay

Senior Director (Head Legal)
Ameriprise Financial (India)

Dr. Shraddha Damle

In-House IP Counsel
JetSynthesys Pvt Ltd (India)

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
EMPOWERING DATA PROTECTION: NAVIGATING INDIA'S DPDPA
ROOM : PENNAR1

Vineet Vij Himani Gupta Prashant Phillips Dr. Debabrata Nayak

Group General Counsel Head- Legal & Compliance India Executive Partner Head - Cyber Security
Tech Mahindra (India) & South Asia, Lakshmikumaran and Ericsson (India)
Cambridge University Press Sridharan Attorneys (India)
& Assessment (India)

Garg Vyas
Senior General Manager IP, Legal
Cummins India Limited (India)

Abhijit Poonja Saif Khan Anjali Balagopal

Director - Legal Partner General Counsel
Flipkart (India) Anand and Anand (India) Tata Technologies (India)
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10:30 AM - 12:30 PM PATENT INFRINGEMENT AND WAIVERS – IS THIS AN EVOLVEMENT OF NEW STRATEGY
ROOM : PENNAR2 FOR PHARMA?

Dr. K. S. Kardam Prof. Neena Katrekar Manika Arora

Former Senior Joint Controller of Dr. Ramakrishna Thammaiah Head of Intellectual Property Associate Partner
Patents and Designs Chair Professor, IPR Genepharm (India) Lall & Sethi (India)
Indian Patent Office, New Delhi National Law School of India
(India) University, Bangalore (India)

Dr. Gopakumar G. Nair

Managing Partner
Gnanlex Associates LLP (India)

Mayuri Savani
Director
Alicon Pharmaceutical Pvt. Ltd.
(India)

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
MANAGING IPR DUE-DILIGENCE IN MERGER AND ACQUISITIONS
ROOM : KRISHNA

Dr. Harish Taruna Gupta Hiranmai Rallabandi Dr. Viswanathan Seshan

Chandran Avaronnan Head, IP Governance General Counsel Partner & CEO
Head - Intellectual Property Training and Assessment (GTA) Wework India Management ViSwan Consulting (India)
Novozymes South Asia and IP&E Business Partner Private Limited (India)
Private Limited (India) Tata Consultancy Services (India)

Dr. M. Jayakumar
Associate Vice President -
Intellectual Property
Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Limited
(India)

Sumantra Mukherjee Persis Hodiwalla Dr. P.S.R.C. Murthy Dr. Raman Sharma
Partner, KPMG Assurance and Managing Partner Director & Head - Intellectual Property Legal Specialist
Consulting Services LLP (India) JP Legal Corp. (India) Neuland Laboratories Limited SABIC (India)
(India)

12:30 PM - 01:30 PM LUNCH BREAK AND NETWORKING SESSION

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01:30 PM - 3:30 PM
COMMERCIALISATION OF IP THROUGH GI: ISSUES AND CHALLENGES
ROOM : KABINI

Dr. Ragini P. Khubalkar Dr. Nidhi Buch Dr. Annamma Samuel Lisa P. Lukose
Associate Professor of Law, Head Centre for IPR DPIIT-IPR Chair Professor Professor of Law and Director
Chair Professor of DPIIT IPR Gujarat National Law University Gujarat National Legal Aid, Guru Gobind Singh
Chair, In-charge Centre for IPR, (India) Law University (GNLU) (India) IP University (India)
Maharashtra National Law
University, Nagpur (India)
Dr. Pinaki Ghosh
IPR Chair Professor, West Bengal National
University of Juridicial Sciences, Kolkata
(India)
Dr. Kalpana Sastry Regulagedda
Former Joint Director, ICAR-NAARM and Managing
Director, AGHub, PJTSAU, Hyderabad (India)

01:30 PM - 3:30 PM
INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATIONS
ROOM : KAVERI

Mira Vats-Fournier
IP & Tech Attorney, Mediator, Chartered Arbitrator, MCIArb, Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP (USA)

“ENFORCEMENT, CONFIDENTIALITY, AND PRIVACY

STRATEGIES IN TRANS-NATIONAL ARBITRATION”

Nithi Murugesu
Attorney at Law, Nithi Murugesu & Associates (Sri Lanka)

Dr. K T Varughese “IS SRI LANKA GEARED WITH THE NECESSARY IP LAWS FOR
Director
FDI?”
ConClavit (India)

Chinmoy Roy
Senior Legal Officer, Antrix Corporation Limited (India)
“INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION AND IP HARMONIZATION
FOR OUTER SPACE”

Navneet Bhushan
Founder Director & Co-Crafter, Crafitti Consulting Private Limited (India)

“WHERE THE INVENTIVE ENERGY OF WORLD IS BEING SPENT?”

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01:30 PM - 3:30 PM
VALUE OF MEDIATION TO RESOLVE IP DISPUTES
ROOM : PENNAR1

Jamshed Mistry Neera Sharma Clive D. Thorne Laila T. Ollapally

Founder Group General Counsel & CEO Partner Founder and Lead Mediator
International Legal Alliance Sistema Smart Technologies Limited McCarthy Denning (UK) CAMP Arbitration and Mediation
(India) (India) Practice Pvt. Ltd. (India)

Mysore Prasanna
Advocate, Mediator & Arbitrator
Chambers Of Mysore R. Prasanna
(India)

Shehara Varia Ruchika Nayyar

Director at International ADR General Counsel
Center and Partner Nexus Malls
F.J & G. De Saram. (Sri Lanka) (India)

01:30 PM - 3:30 PM TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER: ACADEMIA-INDUSTRY ALLIANCE FOR IP COMMERCIALISATION OF

ROOM : PENNAR2 POTENTIAL INNOVATIONS

Dr. A.S. Rao Dr. Raj Hirwani Abhishek Choudhury Mohit Mahajan
President Adjunct Professor Director CEO
Indian Innovators Indian Institute of Technology Nanobiz India Private Limited Center for New product
Association (India) Mumbai (India) (India) Development Trade and Transfer
Rahul Dubey (India)
Leader IP Strategy &
Competitive Intelligence
Baker Hughes (India)

Shivakumar R Vanitha Boraiah

Head - IPR & Tech Transfer Senior Lead Engineer - IP
Centre for Cellular and Molecular Collins Aerospace
Platforms (C-CAMP) (India) (RTX Company) (India)
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01:30 PM - 3:30 PM NAVIGATING THE DIGITAL FRONTIER: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CHALLENGES AND
ROOM : KRISHNA OPPORTUNITIES

Miku Mehta Daryl Lim Mamta Rani Jha Prashant Marathe

Partner H. Laddie Montague Jr. Chair in Law Senior Partner & Head – Litigation General Counsel & VP - Legal &
Procopio (USA) Penn State University (USA) Inttl Advocare (India) Compliance, Sula Vineyards (India)

Dr. John P. Hanish

Partner
Maynard Nexsen (USA)

Aparna Watal Jayakanth Govindarajan Ayan Roy Chowdhury

Special Counsel Senior Manager - Intellectual Property Head Legal and Compliance
Baker & McKenzie Bosch (India) Broadcast Audience Research
(Australia) Council (BARC) (India)

03:30 PM - 04:00 PM COFFEE BREAK AND NETWORKING SESSION

04:00 PM - 06:00 PM EFFECTIVE COMPLIANCE STRATEGIES: MITIGATING RISKS AND ENSURING BUSINESS
ROOM : KABINI SUSTAINABILITY

Sameet Gambhir Dr. Brajesh Barse Dr. Vivek Mittal Shujath Bin Ali
Vice President (Corp. Law) & Director, Lifesciences Global General Counsel General Counsel & Chief
Company Secretary, DCM Shriram Food & Agricuture at USIBC - US Dr. Reddy's Laboratories (India) Compliance Officer
Limited (India) India Business Council (India) Re Sustainability Limited (India)
Lokesh Venkataswamy
CEO & Managing Director
Innomantra Consulting Private Limited
(India)

Anil P.M. Vinod Mannattil

Head - Legal & Compliance General Counsel
Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance Gloplax Solutions (India)
Company Limited (India)
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04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
THE IMPACT OF GDPR AND SIMILAR REGULATIONS ON GLOBAL DATA PRIVACY
ROOM : KAVERI

Deepalakshmi Vadivelan Meghna Sudha Panda Stanislav Rumyantsev Nagaraja B S

General Counsel Director Legal Senior Lawyer Independent Counsel
& Vice President Legal, MoEngage (India) Gorodissky & Partners (India)
Global DPO, Quess Corp Limited (Russia)
(India)

Vasanthika Srinath
Partner
Kosmos Partners (India)

Srinjoy Banerjee Aparna Rawat

Partner Head Legal
LexOrbis (India) L&T Finance (India)

04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
GLOBAL IP STRATEGY AND ENFORCEMENT
ROOM : PENNAR1

Saurabh Anand Mohit Kumar Choudhary Komal Shah Bhukhanwala Pankaj Thape
Senior Counsel IP Counsel Director - IP & R&D Head - Intellectual Property
IP and Technology Law Carrier Corporation (India) Sulphur Mills Limited (India) Thermax Limited (India)
Akamai Technologies (India)
Nirav N. Desai
Director, Sterne, Kessler
Goldstein & Fox PLLC (USA)

Divyendu Verma Shailesh Tavate Piyush Sharma

Global Head of Patent Department Head - Intellectual Property Associate Partner
AudiriVox (UAE) Log9 Materials Scientific LexOrbis (India)
Private Limited (India)
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04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY IN THE DIGITAL AGE
ROOM : PENNAR2

Rajiv Malik Bhavna Singh Hena Datta Shreekanth Katti

GC / DGM Legal General Counsel Director and Head of Legal & Head - Legal, Compliance
LG Electronics India Pvt. Ltd. Subex (India) Compliance, MediBuddy (India) and Data Privacy, Merck (India)
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Smitha Chandrashekaraiah
Director - Legal
Harman International (India)
Pvt. Ltd. (India)

Gandhimadhy Varadarajan
General Counsel
LetsVenture Technologies
Private Limited (India)
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Abhishek Bharti Kevin J. Fournier Harini Niveda NRB Dr. Nitin Shukla
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GE Global Research (India) Kevin J. Fournier Intellectual Aditya Birla Management Intellectual Property Group
Property Legal Services Limited (UK) Corporation Pvt Ltd (India) CSIR-National Chemical
Laboratory (NCL) (India)

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India's Journey to
Semiconductor Supremacy through
Patents and Innovation
The year 1947 marks a pivotal moment in Indian history as the nation achieved hard-fought
independence after centuries of foreign rule. Subsequently, on December 23, 1947, at Bell Labs in
New Jersey, Walter Brattain, John Bardeen, and William Shockley unveiled the world's first transistor.
Fast forward nearly 80 years, and semiconductor chips have become integral to various aspects of our
lives, exceeding the expectations of their inventors by powering computers, smartphones,
automobiles, defense weapons, and a multitude of technological applications that have become
ubiquitous in our daily lives. In this context, India is now making strides to establish its presence in the
semiconductor space.

Projections indicate that the global semiconductor industry will reach $1 trillion by the end of this
decade, a significant increase from $590 billion in 2021. Notably, major players like Intel and AMD in
the United States engage in longstanding competition for dominance in computer processors, while
companies like Arm focus on semiconductor design for mobile devices. This fierce market rivalry not
only propels technological advancements but also fuels active research and development, leading to
the filing and enforcement of an impressive number of patents.

In 2022, a record-breaking 69,190 global patents were filed for semiconductors, reflecting a
substantial increase from the 62,000 and 55,000 filed in the preceding two years. While countries like
the United States, Taiwan, Japan, China, and some European nations currently lead in semiconductor
production and innovation, India is strategically positioning itself amidst a changing landscape.

Semiconductors have gained prominence due to their scarcity, driven by the U.S.-China technological
rivalry and the pandemic's impact, intensifying the urgency for nations to secure self-sufficiency in
semiconductor production. Recognizing the strategic importance of this technology in the
contemporary world, the Indian government aims to emerge as a semiconductor powerhouse. In
December 2021, the Cabinet announced a substantial Rs 76,000 crores (over USD 10 billion) incentive
package to attract foreign semiconductor and display firms. It is noteworthy that major players from
the chip industry, including Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd, Qualcomm, and Huawei Technologies, are
already major players in India’s patent landscape. Infact these three were the top filers of Indian
Patents for in year 2021.

The issue of patent registration holds paramount importance for India's semiconductor industry.
Semiconductors and their designs, requiring high-quality engineering and substantial investment,
demand legal protection against piracy. Throughout the history of intellectual property (IP)
protection, strong safeguards, particularly through patents, have incentivized manufacturers to
continuously innovate and enhance their market value.
Advancing patent and integrated circuit (IC) protection for semiconductors is crucial for fostering
innovation on a large scale. Such protection ensures a reasonable commercial return for domestic
manufacturers, contributing to India's growing prominence in the semiconductor market.
Furthermore, increased investment in patenting and protecting semiconductors will help India
establish a strong foothold in both domestic and international markets, positioning it as a major
semiconductor superpower.

Moreover, patenting semiconductors in India will drive the development of advanced research and
development (R&D) infrastructure, leading to improvements in existing technologies and increased
efficiency for future advancements. As the global demand for semiconductors continues to rise, India
has the potential not only to become a superpower in semiconductor production but also an
intellectual hub for research, design, and a significant player in exports.

The Indian Patent Office (IPO) has made significant improvements to streamline patenting processes,
including digital transformation and increased staffing. As a result, obtaining a patent now takes 3-4
years, comparable to developed IP-savvy jurisdictions. India’s Commercial Courts Act 2015 and the
Intellectual Property Division (IPD) created by Delhi High Court have further strengthened the
country’s patent ecosystem by creating specialized spaces to handle IP disputes, with other
prominent Indian high courts contemplating creating IPDs as well. This has resulted in a robust case
management system and timely resolution of patent disputes.

Protection under Patent Law in India presents a promising future for the Indian semiconductor
market, elevating the level of protection necessary for highly integrated circuits. With India poised to
increase its domestic semiconductor production and become a global market leader, an uptick in
patenting activity is expected, providing a significant competitive advantage over established
markets. Intellectual property rights are a key avenue for domestic manufacturers to establish a
presence in the semiconductor industry, aligning with the government's initiatives for the sector.
Strengthening the legal framework for semiconductor intellectual property in India is a prudent
move to protect and enhance the unique qualities of these technologies, setting the stage for
sustained growth and innovation in the Indian semiconductor landscape.

Dr Joshita Davar Khemani

Managing Partner and Principal Attorney at Law
L. S . Davar & Co.
FAILURE OF GOVT. BODIES TO STOP PARALLEL IMPORT
AND TRADING OF BRANDED GOODS DECLARED UNLAWFUL
HIGH COURT OF BANGLADESH DECIDES IN
SAMSUNG CASE
The High Court in Bangladesh on 6 February 2013, comprised of Madam Justice Naima Haider and Mr. Justice Md.
Khairul Alam, has ruled that inaction and failure of Customs Authority, Telecommunication Regulator (BTRC), Rapid
Action Battalion (RAB) and Police Authority of Bangladesh to stop imports, distribution and trading of unauthorized
SAMSUNG branded mobile phones and electronic goods is unlawful. The High Court passed the final verdict directing
the aforesaid government bodies to perform their function as specified by the relevant statutes and take necessary
steps to prohibit and confiscate the imports and clearance through Customs, stop distribution and trading of
unauthorized SAMSUNG branded mobile phones and electronic goods throughout Bangladesh.

Samsung India Electronics Private Limited, a subsidiary of Samsung Electronics, one of the world’s largest technology
and smart phone manufacturing companies, through its branch office in Bangladesh, filed a Judicial Review (Writ
Petition) in 2015 before the High Court Division of the Supreme court of Bangladesh. In the Judicial Review Samsung
challenged the inaction and failure of the government bodies, i.e. Customs Authority, Telecommunication Regulator
(BTRC), Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and Police Authority of Bangladesh, to perform their statutory function. Such
inaction and failure had resulted infringements of SAMSUNG trademark rights through imports, distribution and
trading of unauthorized and counterfeit SAMSUNG branded mobile phones and electronic goods by grey importers
and unscrupulous traders.

The number of the unauthorized and grey importers and unscrupulous traders are plenty in numbers which made it
unmanageable and impractical for Samsung to bring them under justice and protect its trademark rights under the
ambit of Trademarks and Specific Reliefs Acts.

This Judicial Review, initiated in 2015, is the first of its kind litigation, a pioneering endeavor spearheaded by Barrister
Hamidul Mishbah of OLD BAILEY Chambers, Dhaka, who acted as the Lead Counsel for SAMSUNG, wherein a brand
owner moved to a constitutional court invoking its fundamental rights for protection and enforcement of its
trademark rights.
Samsung contended that Samsung’s ownership over the trademark “SAMSUNG” is an exclusive right, which grants
Samsung the sole right to authorize one for commercial use of the “SAMSUNG” trademark including imports,
distribution and trading of SAMSUNG branded mobile phones and electronic goods in Bangladesh. Plenty of
importers and traders are engaged into importing and trading of SAMSUNG branded goods, for which they have no
authorization or license obtained from Samsung.

Samsung further argued that BTRC has a statutory obligation under the telecommunication law to ensure that importers of
mobile phones obtain prior permission from BTRC for importing mobile phones, and the Customs Authority has an obligation
under the Customs Act to ensure that any importer of branded goods submits a certificate (license) obtained from the brand
owner, i.e. SAMSUNG, for importing such goods. Both the statutory bodies were falling short of performing their duty and enforce
the laws against the unauthorized and grey importers and traders. As a result, Samsung became aggrieved.

In this Judicial Review sought by SAMSUNG, the High Court Division has delved the issues of exclusive rights stemms from the
registration of a trademark, the legal position of the doctrine of exhaustion of intellectual property rights in Bangladesh, and the
legality of the inaction of the statutory bodies that have statutory duty to perform and enforce the laws against the parallel
importers and unauthorized traders.

BTRC being the licensing authority, Customs being the gate keeper, and RAB and Police being the law enforcement agencies
having the power to prohibit, disallow and stop any unlawful activities at and beyond the border, respectively, are entrusted with
the statutory duty to stop any unlawful act, which they ought to perform but have been failing.

The High Court, however, observed Samsung’s statutory rights conferred under the Trademarks Act, which is an exclusive right,
and such right inherently enshrines from the fundamental rights such as right to property, right to conduct lawful trade or
business and right to protection of law. Statutory bodies are obliged to protect, promote and ensure the enjoyment of
fundamental rights by any individual or entity. Fundamental rights are owed by the state to the people within the territory, and
the statutory bodies shall act in accordance to the law so that such rights are not infringed.

Article 102 of the Constitution of Bangladesh empowers the High Court Division to order any government authority to do which
such government authority is required by the law to do. The High Court therefore declared the inaction and failure of the relevant
government authorities, i.e. BTRC, Customs, RAB, and Police, as unlawful since they had failed to perform their statutory duties.
The High Court also passed a continuous mandamus order by directing such government bodies to perform their statutory
functions to ensure that the rights and obligations conferred by the relevant statutes are enforced that are intended to give
protection to the trademark owner’s, i.e. SAMSUNG, intellectual property rights. The Rule passed in 2015 was therefore made
Absolute.

This decision is now incumbent upon the government bodies, i.e. BTRC, Customs, RAB, and Police, to perform their statutory
duties by restraining the imports, distribution and trading of unauthorized SAMSUNG branded mobile phones and electronic
goods within Bangladesh. This shall ensure that import, distribution and selling of counterfeit or unauthorized SAMSUNG
branded goods are stopped prohibited at the border as well as throughout Bangladesh.

This emerges as a trailblazing judgment and precedent that mandates for stopping of parallel imports and trading of branded
goods. The principle enumerated from this judgment shall act as a reminder to the government bodies. International brands
doing business in Bangladesh, that experience similar challenges like Samsung, can now resort to this doctrine of precedent
established by the SAMSUNG case. The decision passed in the SAMSUNG case also bolsters Bangladesh’s commitment towards
protection of intellectual property rights of brand owners and foreign investors doing business in Bangladesh.

By Barrister

A B M Hamidul Mishbah
Managing Partner, OLD BAILEY Chambers.
 NO PRIVILEGE FOR
PATENT AGENTS AND CLIENTS
(By Essenese Obhan, Managing Partner, Obhan and Associates)

Clients rightly expect communications with their legal advisers to be protected by attorney-client privilege. While privilege is
available to lawyers and their clients in India, it does not extend to patent agents, even though their roles overlap in many
respects.

Patent law is practised by two sets of professionals, advocates or lawyers, and patent agents. The former are governed by the
Advocates Act, 1961 and can appear before the courts and the Indian Patent Office. The latter, trained in science, engineering or
technology, fall under the Indian Patents Act, 1970 and can appear before the Controller of Patents, prepare documents, transact
business and discharge functions in connection with patent proceedings. Patent agents, however, cannot appear before courts
unless accompanied by a lawyer.

The basis of privilege is found in sections 126 to 129 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872, which protect professional communications
between lawyers and clients. Lawyers’ clerks and employees are included. Section 128 allows a client to waive privilege and
section 129 protects clients from being compelled to disclose legal professional communications. Exceptions to privilege include
communications in connection with an illegal purpose or crime, and those involving in-house counsel. In India, a lawyer who is a
full-time salaried employee cannot register as an advocate, and thus cannot practise before the courts. Patent agents are similarly
excluded from enjoying privilege in their communications with clients. While patent agents are bound by general principles of
confidentiality, the absence of privilege protection means that information they receive may have to be disclosed in court
proceedings.

A lack of privilege for patent agents has not gone unnoticed. The Law Commission has twice raised this in its 69th report in 1977
and in its 185th set of recommendations in 2003. The body suggested amending the law of evidence. However, Law Commission
reports are non-binding, although they can influence parliamentary debates.

Clients may ask how they can remain protected when dealing with patent agents. Pending legislative changes, prospective
patent applicants should ensure that they deal only with patent agents who are also lawyers. Many patent agents hold dual
qualifications and almost all patent law firms in India are owned or managed by lawyers. Communications with such patent
agents would thus be automatically protected by attorney-client privilege. Such dual-qualified professionals employ patent
agents and typically have contracts in place to protect confidentiality. As communications to patent agents are usually directed
to the lawyer heading the practice, or lawyers are copied in, such communications would likely be privileged. This admittedly
creates an imbalance in favour of dual-qualified professionals, but for now, the best solution is to engage only those in that
category.

Patent agents, however, also have access to sensitive information, such as patent portfolios, business objectives and strategic
plans. The lack of privilege can hamper the free flow of information between inventors and patent advisers and, by extension
compromise patent quality and the whole patent system.

Extending privilege to patent agents would benefit the innovation ecosystem as a whole. As the basis of privilege is public
interest, the Law Commission is clear that it is in the public interest to extend privilege to patent agents.

Even if privilege were so extended, one concern would remain. Patent applicants are not obliged to disclose to the patent office
all prior art known to them. Where a specification is amended after publication of the patent application and the original
specification was not drafted in good faith, the court shall not grant any claimed damages or profits. However, a bad faith defence
only becomes available if a defendant can find evidence of it in discovery proceedings.

This vacuum could perhaps be filled by a legislative amendment to impose a duty of disclosure of all known prior art. The
distinction between prior art and professional advice on it means that privilege need only extend to the advice and not to the art
itself.

The present law, however, is clear that patent agents do not enjoy privilege. Clients should be aware of the extent of their rights,
or lack thereof, and proceed accordingly.

Note: This article was first published in Essenese Obhan

India Business Law Journal, December 2023. Managing Partner, Obhan & Associates (India)
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