Importance of Patents, and Relevance to Academic Institutions and Professionals

With Patents becoming a core part of existing economic ecosystem, particularly for Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology, Software, Information Technology, IoT, Embedded, and Telecom industries, 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 Companies and Govt. Establishment but even more importantly for Scientists and Professors in various Academic Institutions so as to minimize efforts in Patent Development, and maximize commercial gains. It is therefore important for Institutions and Universities and concerned stakeholders therein to understand nitty-gritty’s of patent portfolio creation, 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.

About the Speaker:
Tarun has over 14 years of experience in a broad range of Intellectual Property subject matters, and is the Co-Founding Partner and Patent Attorney of Khurana & Khurana, which is among the Leading IP Practices in India with 4 Offices and over 65 Practitioners. Tarun is among the top 12 Patent Prosecution Practitioners in India as rated by IAM, and has executed numerous assignments related to exercises of Patent Portfolio Creation, Protection, Prosecution, Litigation, Valuation and Commercialization for over 2750 Indian and International Corporates ranging from Small Start-ups to Fortune 5 companies including Google, Huawei, Xiaomi, ABB, Imagination Technologies, WinRAR, Emerson, Daimler Benz, Chassis Brakes, Bell Helicopter, Cadence, L&T, Cipla, Piramal, Alembic, Glenmark, Mastercard, FLSmidth, Halliburton, IISc, Tejas Networks, Ameriprise, Haier, Electra, Indian Oil Corporation, CDOT, CDAC, Battelle, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Liteon Corporation, among many others. Tarun focuses on the Patent Preparation, Patent Valuation, Commercialization, Prosecution and Litigation opinions for Electronics, Computer Implemented, and Mechanical subject matters. Tarun has, apart from handling Indian and International Clients for filing and prosecuting cases in India, helped numerous US and European Patent Attorneys in providing Patent Support Services including Patentability Searches, Invalidation Searches, FTO, Infringement Analysis, Patent Preparation and Responding to Office Actions. Tarun is very well versed with the US and Indian Patent Laws and has been practicing in the domain for the last 14 years. Tarun has drafted and prosecuted over 1000 patent applications and represents large Corporates on complex infringement and invalidation matters. Tarun has a Bachelors in Computer Science Engineering from Pune University, a Masters in Software Systems from BITS Pilani, Bachelors 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 NTPC, Indian Oil Corporation, Moserbaer, IIM Lucknow, ASSOCHAM, Managing Intellectual Property (MIP), NALSAR, IIT Roorkee, ONGC, Delhi Technical University, and Tata Chemical among many others.