The 6th Edition of the International IP Conclave & Awards 2019 (IIPCA) will take place on Wednesday & Thursday, January 16 & 17, 2019 at Hotel Taj Lands End, Mumbai, India. This program is being organized by Legal Era Magazine – India’s No. 1 Magazine on Business & Legal World.
The theme of the Conclave is IP Innovation, Strategy and Emerging Landscape in the 21st Century.
The highlight of this year’s IP Festival (IIPCA) is: 250 leading IP Professionals will be attending the Conclave & Gala Awards ceremony, which stands to “Recognizing Leading IP Professionals and Women in IP” to identify and honor the vision, leadership, innovation, and accomplishments of the IP Professionals at the International IP Awards 2019 on January 17, 2019.
You will get an opportunity to engage with over 250 in-house counsel, patent agents, IP practitioners, scientists, lawyers, researchers, policymakers, and government officials from several countries, representing different segments of industries and highest ranked law firms.
Key Discussion Areas
What Role Can India Play In Making The Global IP Ecosystem Fairer, Less Complex, And More Useful For People?
- Biosimilar Litigation For The Hatch-Waxman Litigator
- Trade Secrets: What’s The Fuss About!
- Whose Song Is It Anyway? Copy – My Rights
- Not To Be Taken Lightly: Post-Grant Proceedings
- Pharmaceutical Wars: Who’s The Bigger/Better Innovator!
- FRAND & SEP: Unseen Ironies Under IP And Competition Law
- How Will Industrial IOT Impact IPR And Vice Versa?
- How Will AI, Machine Learning, And Analytics Impact Patenting? [The Kinds Of Patents People Seek? Prior Art Search? The Patent Application And Grant Process? Patent Licensing? Value Extraction?]
- Hurdles In The Effective Enforcement
- How Will The IP Ecosystem Cope With Networked And Intelligent “Things”? Who Is The Creator Of Those “Things”? Who Owns What The “Things” Create?
- What IP Allocation And Cross-Licensing Challenges Will Open Innovation Present? What Options Can We Formulate For The Greater Collaborative Creation Of IP?
- Review On IP Policy – Where Is India Heading?
Eminent Speakers
Shri D.V. Sadananda Gowda, Honorable Minister of Chemicals & Fertilizers, Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of India
Shri O P Gupta, Controller General of Patents, Designs & Trade Marks, Intellectual Property India, Mumbai, India
Justice B. N. Srikrishna, Former Judge, Supreme Court of India
Dr. K.S. Kardam, Sr. Joint Controller of Patents & Designs, Intellectual Property India, New Delhi, India
Shri. Rajiv Aggarwal, Joint Secretary,Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion, Government of India, New Delhi
Pravin Anand, Managing Partner, Anand and Anand
Amit Thukral, Vice President – Legal, APAC, Lupin Limited
Anubhav Kapoor, General Counsel and Company Secretary, Microland
Archana Shanker, Senior Partner & Head of Department – Patents and Designs, Anand and Anand
Arshad Jamil, Associate Vice President – IPR, Biocon Ltd.
Ayan Roy Chowdhury, Director Legal, Sony Pictures Entertainment, India
Blaise Fernandes, President & CEO, IMI
Douglas Graham, CEO, Ideation Inc.
Dr. Alpesh Pathak, Global IP Head, Intas Pharmaceuticals Ltd.
Dr. Anindya Sircar, IP Consultant
Dr. Aravind Chinchure, Chair Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Symbiosis International University
Dr. Malathi Lakshmikumaran, Director & Practice Head (New Delhi), Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan Attorneys
Dr. Mahendra B. Thakre, General Manager – IPR, Mylan Laboratories
Dr Mandar M Kodgule, Chairman & CEO, IQGEN-X Pharma Pvt Ltd
Dr. S. K. Murthy, Patent Counsel, Intel India
Dr. Sheetal Chopra, India Lead – IPR Advocacy, Ericsson India Ltd.
Dr. Vivek Kashyap, Senior Manager-Patents, Roche
Dr. Vivek Mittal, Regional Counsel – METAI Region Diagnostics Platform, Danaher Corporation
Ganapathy Narayanan, Lead – Corporate IP Governance, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.
Jyotsna Ghoshal, Senior Director – Corporate Affairs, MSD India
Kanchana TK, Director General, OPPI
Kavitha Gupta, Committee Member, Association of Corporate Counsel India
Komal Kalha, Senior Counsel & Officer-in-Charge, USPTO, Office of South Asia
Lakshika Joshi, Global IP Head and Legal Leadership, Aricent
Madhav Kulkarni, Intellectual Capital Manager, Dow Chemical Int. Pvt. Ltd.
Matthew L. Fedowitz, Shareholder – Intellectual Property, Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC
Meenu Chandra, Advocate, IP & Technology Law Consultant; Partner, Adyopant Legal
Munish Sudan, Head, Intellectual Property, Tata Steel Limited
Neeraj Panchal, Sr. General Manager & Head GIPS, John Deere
Neha Mahyavanshi, Director, Field Compliance Officer (South Asia), SAP India Private Limited
Prof. Dr. Heinz Goddar, European and German Patent and Trademark Attorney, BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT
Prof. (Dr) Prabuddha Ganguli, CEO, VISION-IPR; Visiting Professor, Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law, IIT
Puja Tiwari, Senior Manager (Legal), Godfrey Phillips India Limited
Purnima Malkani, Sr Vice President & Head – Legal and IPR, Reliance Life Sciences
Ravi Tumkur, IP Counsel, Philips
Sheetal Sawhney Kapur, Regional Counsel – India & West Asia, Google
Srinjoy Banerjee, Founder, Excaliburancy
Subhadip Sarkar, Assistant Vice President – Intellectual Property, Cognizant Technology Solutions
Subramaniam Vutha, Proprietor, Subramaniam Vutha; Advocate
Sukla Chandra, Managing Director India, GE Licensing And Technology Ventures
Swati Veera, Senior In-House Patent Counsel, Indoco Remedies Ltd.
Taranpreet Singh Lamba, Vice-President, Intellectual Property and Global Product Portfolio, Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Ltd
Vaibhav Khanna, Head, Intellectual Property, Sterlite Technologies Ltd.
Vijay Srirangan, Director General, Bombay Chamber of Commerce & Industry
Vijaya Sarathy, Strategy Head, Intellectual Property, GE South Asia
Vishal Dewan, Country Security Manager, Johnson & Johnson Pvt Ltd
and many more…
IP Award Categories 2019
- Best In-House IP Team of the Year
- Best Patent Law Firm of the Year
- Best Trademark Law Firm of the Year
- Best Copyright Law Firm of the Year
- Best IT & TMT Law Firm of the Year
- Best International IP Firm of the Year
- Best National IP Firm for Innovation, Strategies & Continuous Growth
- Outstanding IP Practitioner
- Leading IP Professionals of 2019
- Leading Women in IP
For Speaking, Sponsorships & Registration, please contact:
Shruti Singh +91-8879635571 or [email protected]
Jinal Chheda +91-8879634922 or [email protected]