Professional Expertise

Patent Prosecution: Patent drafting, Patent filing, Responding to office actions, Preparing detailed comments on the search report issued by the International Searching Authority (ISA), European Patent Office (EPO); Preparing Comments to Written Opinion of International Searching Authority (WO-ISA); Drafting Pre-grant representation/Post-grant opposition and Reply statements to them; Drafting technical opinions in infringement/non-infringement and patent invalidity case; Drafting, preparing and filing Memorandum of Appeal before Intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB).
Patinformatics: Prior art search, Patentability advice, Patent trends and technology analysis, Developing comparative and competitive portfolio reports, Competitive intelligence analysis, Technology Landscape analysis, State-of-the-art search, Current technology alerts and patent updates, Tracing Licensing-in/Licensing-out opportunities, Tracking patent-to-products and market surveillance, Research planning- patent mapping, Identification of white space, New product development studies, Inventor identification and analysis of patent portfolios, New venture evaluation- diversification evaluation/technology or business acquisition/ mergers.
Patent and Literature Databases: Thomson Innovation, PatBase, Qpat, Orbit, Espacenet, DerwentInnovation Index, Web of Science, SciFinder, Pubmed and Google Scholar.
Expertise in working with systems network data sets like GeneMania, STRING, BIOGrid, HPIDB.