Manik teaches Patent Analytic, Drafting and Indian Patent Law.

Manik is working as a patents specialist with an experience of about 12 years in the Intellectual Property (IP) industry. He is a registered Indian Patent Agent and is actively engaged on complex and competitive patents related projects across gamut of technological areas.

His expertise lies in patent application drafting, patent prosecution, patent landscapes, infringement and licensing analysis, white-spaces and black-holes analysis for various engineering domains and technologies. He also caters to complex assignments like drafting revocation petitions, case law research, and pre and post grant opposition
proceedings.

He has been providing services across various scientific domains, and has expertise in automotive technologies, industrial equipment, heavy engineering machinery, marine technologies, electro-mechanics & robotics, medical equipment technologies, power tools, consumer products, business methods, etc. He has also got hand-on experience with projects related to software industry, mobile and computer technologies, electronics products, signal processing, and the like.

David teaches US Patent Law and Prosecution at the USPTO.

David has over 25 years of experience in patent law. Professor Berry is a Registered Patent Attorney admitted to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and is also admitted to practice in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the State of Michigan.

David was an equity partner in the Boston, Massachusetts law firm of Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault, LLP where he practiced IP law for 15 years. In private practice, Professor Berry has represented clients in patent procurement, licensing, and patent disputes, including in such fields as consumer products, biotechnology and biochemical engineering, semiconductor fabrication, computer devices, financial services, and e-commerce. He has been responsible for all aspects of patent and technology litigation, including bench and jury trials, Markman hearings, pre-litigation investigation, discovery, motion practice, and appellate practice, including successfully arguing before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Since 2002, Professor Berry has been an educator and scholar concentrating on patent law and practice, and teaches courses in Patent Law, Patent Procurement, Patent Litigation, Intellectual Property Law, and Licensing of Intellectual Property. From 2002 to 2014, he was a Director of the Graduate Program in Intellectual Property Law at Western Michigan

University – Cooley Law School, where he developed an extensive IP law curriculum, including a post-graduate program granting an LL.M. degree in Intellectual Property Law. He was named Distinguished Professor Emeritus at WMU in 2014. He currently is an adjunct professor at Wayne State University Law School where he is responsible for the Wayne Law Patent Procurement Clinic, a USPTO-certified law school clinical program.

He graduated from the University of Michigan (J.D., cum laude, and B.A.).

Firasat teaches US Patent Law and Drafting.

Firasat has over twelve years of experience in litigating, prosecuting, and counseling clients on intellectual property (IP) matters.  His litigation experiences include serving as trial counsel in several patent cases taken successfully to verdict both in Federal District Courts and before the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC).  His prosecution and portfolio management experiences include preparing and prosecuting patents in a wide range of electrical, mechanical, and software technologies, managing portfolios and supervising attorneys on prosecution matters, advising both small and large clients on portfolio growth, and managing IP issues for two Motorola divisions.

Firasat has a deep technical background and has worked with a wide range of technologies, for example, Firasat has worked with the following technologies: Mobile Applications, Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Vehicle, Shared Economy Applications, Automotive, analog/digital circuits, biotech, consumer electronics, hardware/networking, Internet, LCD panels and controllers, medical/surgical devices, optical storage, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, servers/routers, software, and space systems.

Firasat frequently publishes and speaks on various IP topics.  Some of his engagements include University of California Berkley’s Boalt Hall School of Law, India-based Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), and Motorola, Inc., where Firasat has taught several courses on topics relating to enforcement and thorough protection of intellectual property.

Firasat had a J.D. from The John Marshall Law School: Chicago, Illinois, M.S. degree from the Pennsylvania State University and  B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Temple University: Philadelphia

Bar Admissions: United States Patent and Trademark Office; State Bar of California.

Ravi Upasani teaches research and analysis of patent information pertaining to pharmaceutical.

Ravi is a Biopharmaceutical Intellectual Property professional with extensive background and expertise in devising and implementing patent filing strategies that protect inventions and emerging technologies. Possess around 10 years of experience in IP, and 15 years of experience in medicinal chemistry.

Experience includes:

• 8 Years of experience in directing IP departments
• Drafting, filing and prosecuting U.S. and foreign patent applications
  • 150 small molecule composition of matter patent applications
  • 10 US applications issued/allowed
  • Several in person “Examiner’s Interview”
• Conducting structure-based IP searches and performing freedom-to-operate (FTO) analysis on small molecule drug candidates
• Developing and implementing
  • effective patent filing strategy based on SAR (Structure-Activity Relationship) and bioisosterism
  • effective and pre-emptive strategies with respect to potential third party conflicting IP
• Managing all IP aspects of collaboration with big pharma (Pfizer, AstraZeneca, and Roche)
• Performing Due Diligence of third party IP for in-licensing and collaboration activities
• Providing strategic intellectual property advice and intellectual property portfolio management (>400 patents and patent applications; US and foreign counterparts)
• Providing research and analysis of patent information pertaining to pharmaceutical projects Patent lifecycle management (patent term extension)
• Conducting IP analysis for licensing and M&A activities

Ravi has a Ph.D. in Synthetic Organic Chemistry from University of Bombay, M.Sc., Organic Chemistry and B.Sc., Chemistry from University of Bombay. He is Registered Patent Agent (Reg. No. 53,712)

Manish Kumar teaches Indian IP, Patent Drafting. Manish has authored Handbook on IPR and recorded sessions for participants of GIIP’s Off-Campus Learning Centre. 

Manish was extensively trained by Steve Shear on US Patent Law, Drafting and Prosecution at the USPTO.

Manish is Head, Department of Production & Industrial Engineering at the MBM Engineering College, JNV University Jodhpur.

Manish did his Ph.D. (Mechanical Engineering) on “Development of A Computer Aided Process Planning System Integrated with Production Scheduling for Axisymmetric Components in A Job Shop Environment” Prior to that he did M.E. Mechanical Engineering (Specialization in Production & Industrial Engineering) and B.E. Mechanical Engineering from J.N.V. University, Jodhpur, with Honours Division

Bart Wezenbeek teaches European Patent Law. Bart has authored EP Patent Law Handbook and recorded sessions for participants of GIIP’s Off-Campus Learning Centre.

Bart is a patent attorney with a technical background in biotechnology. He has spent the first part of his career as a researcher in the pharmaceutical industry, where he then made a move into IP. From there he went on as patent information specialist, further qualifying as patent attorney and legal counsel, being active also in a small biotech company and finally in private practice.

Next to his day-to-day work involving mainly patent activities, but also experience in trademarks and designs, he has also been heavily involved in training activities, such as

• trainings to prepare for the European Qualifying Examination for patent attorneys,
• tutoring at the IPKM masters course in IP in the University of Maastricht and
• educating patent information specialists both in The Netherlands and in India,
• organising and speaking at seminars for patent professionals.

Finally, he has extensive legal experience, as a legal counsel in writing contracts, but also as a deputy justice sitting in panels at the Appeals Court in The Hague, as a member of the Disciplinary Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office, as a member of the Disciplinary Council of the Dutch Order of Patent Attorneys, and in writing annotations for the Kluwer’s IP database.

R Saha, Academic Head, teaches Indian IP and advanced topics, such as, IP Portfolio Management, and Commercialization.

R. Saha started his career with the R&D Division of the Civil Aviation Dept. and looked after the areas of aircraft evaluation, air-transport economics, air-worthiness and the conceptual issues and noise and vibrations. He joined the Department of Science & Technology in 1984 and handled programmes related to materials and engineering science. He was deputed to Ministry of welfare in 1988 where has managed the S&T Project in Mission Mode on Application of Technology for the Welfare and Rehabilitation of Handicapped until March 1994. He was also appointed a UN consultant. He also served DST as an Adviser (Scientist ‘G’) and headed, Science and Society division of DST, Good Laboratory Practices (GLP) authority and the Patent Facilitating Centre (PFC) set up by DST at TIFAC.

He has conducted more than 370 patent/IPR awareness workshops in different part of the country, established 20 Patent Information Centres (PICs) in 20 states and published 117 issues of monthly bulletin on IPR since 1995 and many first in the area of IPR in India. Under his guidance PFC has filed more than 700 patents in India and abroad on behalf of academic institutes and other government R&D institute, which included IPR applications (about 300 patent applications) of DRDO. He also has launched women scientist scheme to give training to these women on IPR especially patent searches and patent drafting at PFC and other institutions handling IPR including attorney firms for one year. This is primarily for bring back to science those women who are having science background and away from science by any reason. In all 150 scientists have been trained so far.

Heinz Goddar, Director, teaches Patent and Licensing Law

Heinz Goddar with his office at Munich has a technical background as well as a PHD degree in physics, with a focus on polymer physics. He teaches Licensing Law as an honorary Professor at the University of Bremen, Germany, as a lecturer at the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (MIPLC), Munich, Germany as a visiting Professor at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, U.S.A., and the Tsinghua University School of Law, Beijing, China, and as a Consultant Professor at Huazhong University, Wuhan, China. Furthermore he lectures IP Law at the Tsinghua University School of Law, Beijing, and is an Adjunct Professor in an Honorable Consultant in International Legal Services at the National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan.

He is a Past President of LES International and of LES Germany, and has received the Gold Medal of LES International. Professor Goddar has been inducted into the IAM IP Hall of fame. Furthermore, he is an ad-personam member of the EPO’s Standing Advisory Committee (SACEPO).

Professor Goddar is counted by “IAM Strategy 250” among the “World’s Leading IP Strategists”. The JUVE Handbook 2019/2020 ranks Professor Goddar as one of the leading names among German Patent Attorneys with physics at their technical focus. Best Lawyers2018 rated him amongst the top attorneys in Germany. Legal 500 Germany 2015/2016 recommends him in the field of Patent Law.

Steve Shear granted exclusive rights to Global Institute of Intellectual Property to manufacture, publish, reprint and sell the reference works currently entitled “Basic Patent Process (US),” “Advanced Patent Process (US),” “PCT,” and “Claim Drafting,” (collectively the “Works”), in book form throughout India, Pakistan, Sri Lank, Bangladesh, Turkey and Malaysia.

A former United States Patent Examiner (June, 1967 – August, 1969) in the electrical / mechanical arts, Steve Shear has been practicing patent, trademark, copyright and other forms of intellectual property law for over 40 years. During those years he has prepared and prosecuted well over 800 patent applications.

He is the executive director and founder of Silicon Valley Seminars and has been conducting workshops for patent attorneys and staff and patent seminars for inventors, executives and general attorneys since 1984.

Steve Shear received a B.S. degree (with an emphasis on electrical engineering) from Washington University in St. Louis in 1966 and a J.D. from American University, Washington College of Law in 1969. In addition to all of his other endeavors, Steve has been an Adjunct Professor and Member of the Graduate Faculty at the University of Colorado, School of Engineering and was a co-founder of a number of start-up companies including Colorado
Display Technologies, Light Engineering, Phiar Corporation and XenoPur Systems, Inc.

Steve is a painter and sculptor (www.shearstudio.com) and lives with his wife Susan in the foothills of the Santa Catalina Mountains just north of Tucson where he is also busy writing poetry and walking.