Maninder teaches the Indian Patent Act, Patent Prosecution, Trademark Searches & Prosecution

A Patent & Trademark Attorney with over 12 years of experience in various areas of Intellectual property laws including contentious, non-contentious and transactional matters. I regularly provide consultation & legal opinions to clients and advice on various aspects of Intellectual Property including its acquisition, protection, management, enforcement and its successful utilization in India and overseas. As a Partner at Orionis Legal my skills and time are devoted to implementing my knowledge to further the business goals of our clients through proper intellectual property strategies attuned to their business needs.

Dr. Chitra teaches Indian Patent Act and Patent drafting to help prepare for Indian Patent Agent Exam (Paper I and II)

Chitra, Partner at LEX IP CARE holds M.S. degree in Pharmacy, with specialization in Natural Products from National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER, Chandigarh), and her Doctorate in the field of natural products from the same Institute in 2005. She completed her Bachelor of Pharmacy from Dr. M.G.R. Medical University, Tamil Nadu in 1999.

Besides being a gold medalist in her undergraduate as well as postgraduate courses, Dr. Chitra holds MBA degree in marketing from IGNOU and Post graduate Diploma in Intellectual Property Rights from National Law School University, India. She is a registered patent agent and an advocate having a wide experience in techno-commercial and techno-legal background.

She has several research articles and patents to her credit. She has hands on experience on isolation, characterization and biological testing of natural products with respect to both small molecules and macromolecules; synthesis of chemical compounds and biological assays including screening of compounds in-vitro and in-vivo.

Chitra was part of the team which successfully handled the first Compulsory License granted in India for the drug Sorafenib, and has also handled several ongoing litigations of pharmaceutical compounds, in the High Court and Supreme Court of Delhi as well as other High Courts across India. She has drafted and filed more than 250 oppositions in Indian patent office and other jurisdictions.

Her expertise lies in advising clients, especially in the pharmaceutical sector, in building, managing and developing their portfolio of intellectual property rights. She has planned and built IP portfolios of several companies and Institutions, and is accomplished in conducting “Freedom to Operate” reports and providing techno-legal opinions. She is a visiting professor at GIIP, TERI and conducts workshops across India.

Dr. Tiku teaches Indian Patents and Patent Process and has recorded a number of sessions on Indian Patent Act for the GIIP Off-Campus Learning centre. She has authored ‘All About Patents’ and ‘Handbook on Patents and Patent Process (India)’ for GIIP program participants

Deepa is a partner at K&S Partners and based out of the Gurgaon (National Capital Region) office. Deepa is a registered Patent Agent with the Indian Patent Office and an attorney at law. She specializes in the area of Life Sciences, with an emphasis on patent drafting, prosecution and contentious practice, particularly biotechnology and pharmaceuticals as well as biomedical, nanotechnology, chemistry and polymer related inventions. Her Practice also involves advising both domestic as well as International clients on Plant Variety Protection in India as well as Biodiversity Act of India. Deepa also advises on enforcement of patents, freedom to operate, due diligence, technology transfer and licensing.

Deepa has been practicing in the field of patent law for more than 15 years with an added experience of about seven years of working in the industry as well as on the research side. She is a named inventor in total of 21 granted patents worldwide and has several publications and articles to her credit. Deepa offers a unique blend of science and law for handling and advising on complex life sciences patent matters in India.

Deepa is a regular speaker at various IP Fora and works on IP policy related issues as well. She serves as a member of the National Biotechnology Committee of CII, the premier Chamber of Commerce in India.

Deepa has done PhD in Biotechnology, is a registered Patent Agent and has done her LLB. She is listed in Top 50 Women in IP by Managing Intellectual Property and as most influential woman in Biotech Patent Law in India by AI 2018 Global Excellence award.

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.

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.