About the Symposium

With Patents becoming a core part of existing economic ecosystem, particularly for Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology, Chemical, and Drug Industries, creation and exploitation of Patent Portfolio has become an industry in itself; especially with the cost of development and protection of the portfolio being enormous. It is therefore crucial to understand important Patent issues, not only for IP teams but even more importantly for R&D Scientists so as to minimize efforts in Patent development and maximize commercial gains. It is also important for Corporate and concerned stakeholders to understand nitty gritties of Patent portfolio creation, promotion, protection, management, and commercialization, without which there would always remain an open door for a serious blow either from an infringement perspective or from a patent invalidation perspective or the portfolio would remain under commercialized. This is precisely why the number of major patent litigations are growing between competitors and contemporaries, besides the growing threat from international exploiters. 

Exclusivity rights granted through patents can only be utilized if there is comprehensive knowledge of various patent related issues, more so when the National Patent Laws & Practices relating to prosecution practices, drafting practices, examination practices, enforcement practices and commercialization practices differ substantially across geographies.

Furthermore, standards for protection and enforcement as applied by different National judiciaries often vary widely and therefore in global business scenario, besides understanding of Patent Laws and Practices prevalent in India, we also need to understand practices in economically and financially important geographies such as in United States, Europe, and China. It is in this direction that the three days International Symposium is being organized to impart comprehensive knowledge to understand nitty-gritties of Patent Regime.

How The Symposium Is Unique

This Symposium features presentation of all important patent issues as mentioned in this brochure. The speakers are a unique gathering of Patent Attorneys, Litigators and Legal Counsels who have extensive years of experience in their professional fields and are well acquainted with the Industry’s need. These speakers will put across to the delegates the eal insight of Patent Laws, Practices and Commercial perspectives as prevalent and practiced in United States, Europe, India, and China. The Workshop will provide an opportunity to receive first- hand information including recent Judgment on various issues from the experts in the fields. The speakers are selected such that R&D Scientists, In- House Counsels, Patent Attorneys, and IP Practitioners can get to know real insights and nittygritties followed in the United States, Europe, India and China in Patent Domain. The speakers would share real-life cases and experiences that can help attendees in following best practices for building their respective patent portfolios so as to best commercialize.

Who Should Attend

In-house Counsels, Life Science Companies, IP Management Teams, Research & Development Scientists, Patent Agents & Attorneys in the field of Practice, Patent Litigators, Professionals in Legal-Business domain related to Pharma, Biotech and Chemical Industry.

About the Organizers

IIPRD

IIPRD is a premier IP Consulting and Licensing Firm with a diversified business practice providing services in the domain of Commercialization, Valuation, Licensing, Transfer of Technology and Due-Diligence of Intellectual Property Assets along with providing complete IP and Patent Analytics, Transactional, and Litigation Support Services to Indian and International Corporates, Licensing Firms, and Global Law Firms. IIPRD has been established precisely to assist business houses in strategizing their growth by leveraging their IPR's through effective Creation, Promotion, Protection, and Commercialization of IP. IIPRD has a legacy of over fifteen years of existence, and is among the first Indian IP Firms to have core focus on Commercialization, Technology Transfer, and Licensing. IIPRD as strong team of over 150 professionals focus in complete Patent Support and Technology Consulting Matters ranging from conducting all types of Patent Searches, Research and Analytics, Preparation/Prosecution Support, Landscape Analysis, and Claim Charts/ Infringement Analysis/ Litigation Support.

Khurana & Khurana, Advocates And IP Attorneys

Khurana & Khurana, Advocates and IP Attorneys (K&K) is more than a service Intellectual Property and Commercial Law firm. K&K was formed in the year 2007 with a very firm focus of providing end-to-end IP Prosecution/ Litigation and Commercial Law services in a manner that is Corporate centric and follows stringent delivery practices that are consistent and are above defined quality standards. K&K works closely with its sister concern IIPRD, both of which supplement each other in order to provide end-to-end IP Legal and Commercialization / Licensing services to over 3500 Corporates. K&K is a team of over 160 professionals spread across 10 Offices in India, and has strong rankings from Legal 500, MIP, IAM, Chambers, Asia IP, among others.Our team of IP Attorneys/Practitioners, having high level of technical and legal competence, gives us the right competitive edge and positioning, as a law firm focused on creating immense IP value for our clients. K&K through its experienced and qualified team of Attorneys/ Practitioners, across Technology and Legal Domains, gives a rare synergy of legal opinion, out-of-box thinking for protection of ideas/IP's and entrepreneurial spirits to its client base.

Sughrue Mion

Sughrue Mion is one of the world's leading intellectual property law firms managing traditional and non- traditional intellectual property rights, for about five decades, with a wide range of clients around the world. Sughrue's more than 100 lawyers protect ideas- all ideas- and for the last 50 years have been helping their clients to develop, obtain, protect and leverage their intellectual property rights in technology areas ranging from a submicroscopic sequence of DNA to a vast constellation of satellites circling the globe. Sughrue's Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology, Chemical attorneys are trained in technical discipline s that include molecular and cellular biology, biophysics, pharmaceuticals, chemistry, immunology, virology, genetics and agriculture biotechnology. Their experts are particularly well versed in drafting claims to ensure the broadest possible coverage and have a long established expertise in handling patent interference proceedings that may be critical to determining basic patent rights in new areas of biotechnological and pharmaceutical dustries. Their litigators who specialize in chemistry have tried cases relating to pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, industrial chemical processes, specialty chemicals, and nano technology.

Hamm & Wittkopp

A German based IP Law firm, as a team of chemists and biochemists with many years of experience, Hamm & Wittkopp represents its clients in all areas of intellectual property. A major focus of our activities lies in the fields of chemistry and pharmaceutics – with particular emphasis on generic pharmaceuticals and biosimilars. We offer a comprehensive service of the highest level, from analyzing and clarifying the IP situation, for example via oppositions and nullity actions against troublesome patents, to securing your own innovations via patent applications and defending your interests in litigation proceedings. Our structure allows us to provide tailor-made support in all patent and trademark matters, whereby we are able to act flexibly and efficiently, whilst adapting to the specific needs of each individual case.