Tarun is the Co-Founding Partner and Patent Attorney at Khurana & Khurana (K&K) and its Patent Research and Intellectual Property Asset Management Firm, IIPRD. Tarun has over 23 years of experience in a broad range of intellectual-property subject matters. K&K and IIPRD are among India’s leading IP and commercial law practices, with 10 offices across India and over 220 professionals, along with regional offices in the United States, GCC/UAE, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, and Nepal. Tarun is ranked among the top Patent Prosecution Practitioners in India by IAM 1000 (and also by IAM 300 Strategists), and focuses on Patent Portfolio Management, Litigation, Valuation, and IP Commercialization mandates for numerous Indian and International Corporates ranging from small start-ups to Fortune 5 companies, including Reliance Jio, Sun Pharma, NATCO, Accenture, Imagination Technologies, Huawei, Indian Oil Corporation, Xiaomi, ABB, ZTE, Fujitsu, Kyocera, SABIC, Indian Institute of Technology (Delhi/Guwahati/Roorkee/Palakkad/Indore/Hyderabad), Emerson, Daimler, Cadence, Airbus, L&T, Glenmark, Simon, IISc, Marico, UPL, Avery Dennison, among many others. Tarun has strong experience in Patent Drafting in the domain of Computer Networking and has drafted over 5,000 applications in aggregate till date, a strong portion of which are based in the Semiconductor, Networking, Engineering, Database, Cloud, E-commerce, Security, and Telecom domains. Tarun focuses on Electronics, Telecom, Computer-Implemented, and Mechanical subject matters, and has also worked with corporates/institutes across other technical and business domains as well. He has, apart from handling Indian and International clients for filing and prosecution matters in India, also actively assisted numerous US and European Law and Licensing Firms and corporates in providing Patent Support Services such as conducting patent searches, preparing claim charts, preparing specifications/responses to office actions, undertaking landscape/analytics, e-discovery support, among other like mandates that IIPRD focuses on. Tarun is well versed with US, EP, and Indian Patent Laws. Tarun has a bachelor’s in Computer Science Engineering from Pune University, a Master’s in Software Systems from BITS Pilani, a bachelor’s in law, an MBA from IIM Lucknow, and is in pursuit of his PhD. He also has certifications from IIT Delhi, WIPO, Asian School of Cyber Laws, Indian Law Institute, and International Software Testing Board, among many others. Tarun is also a regular speaker at numerous Institutes and Corporates, including International Conferences such as GIPC, WIPF, CII, FICCI, along with at entities such as NTPC, Indian Oil Corporation, IITs, TIFAC, DIT, CSIR, Moserbaer, IIM Lucknow, ASSOCHAM, Managing Intellectual Property (MIP), Indian Oil Corporation, NALSAR, ONGC, Delhi Technical University, and Tata Group Companies, among many others.
