Workshop on 'Patents in a Knowledge Economy' - A Knowledge Rich Treat

Innomantra Consulting in conjunction with Finnegan LLP, USA, organised a one day workshop on “Patents in a Knowledge Economy – A focus on US Patents and Technology Market” at Bengaluru on 22nd September.


The event attracted around 50 delegates. IP professionals from various corporate houses and legal firms converged at the event. The introduction part was delivered by chairperson of the event Dr. Shantha Shankar.The event began with key note address by Dr.Vishwanathan Seshan, Country Manager,IP & S of Philips Intellectual Property and Standards. Dr.Seshan shared interesting aspects of IP which enthralled the audience.

The workshop began with sessions by Mr.Anand Sharma, Finnegan LLP later by his colleagues Dr.Rajeev Gupta and Mr.Louis Troilo. The trio from Finnegan switched places to divulge various aspects of Patents in US. Being a workshop the delegates were made to involve in interesting exercises to strengthen the basics of Claims and  IP Valuations. Post lunch session  Mr.Lokesh, CEO of Innomantra spoke about innovation and patents. Anand Sharma unveiled the report on “Patent Portfolio analysis of Major Indian IT companies” a report prepared by Innomantra Consulting.

The delegates were shared with the executive summary (available at http://www.innomantra.com). The final session was a panel discussion moderated by Anand Sharma and the panellists included Dr.M.V.Shankar , Innovation differentiation leader at Honeywell Technologies, Dr.Pradeep Desai, Principal consultant at TCS, Rakesh Prabhu, Partner at ALMT Legal and Lokesh V, CEO at Innomantra Consulting. Delegates involved in interactive Q&A session with the panellists and exchanged ideas. The delegates also got to share useful material prepared by team Finnegan and Innomantra which was exclusively developed for the event. The content slides were also shared with the participants.

The sessions (in order) – Procurement of Patents in the US, Name of the game is Claims, Patent Enforcement in the US, Patent valuation for today’s businesses, Business Strategies for IP due diligence, Indian Major IT companies and its patent portfolio & A panel discussion on “Penetration to US technology licensing market”.

Comments by the delegates:

Thank you for organizing such a wonderful workshop. I really enjoyed participating in it and learnt a lot.
-Sanjay Marathe ,Senior Vice President, Head Delivery – GTS and CTO Zensar Technologies Ltd.

It was great to be a part of the workshop. We have gathered lot of information.- Dr.Rekha Mallia, Synthite Industries Ltd

"We thank you for organizing a great workshop with such a great team of speakers. This workshop also gave us an opportunity to interact with the professionals having a diversified background apart from IP"
-Lakshmikant S. Powale ,Lead IP Analyst,GE India Technology Centre Pvt. Ltd.

Thanks a lot for all your help and support.
-Mohua Sengupta, Vice President, Patni Computer Systems, Hyderabad, INDIA

"It was a pleasure attending the seminar & it was very useful". -Fiaz ur Rahman, Manager IP, Wipro Technologies

"The workshop was organised differently and in truly a signature of Lokesh. There was transmission of skills in the workshop.The entire team did a wonderful job"  - H L Narendra Bhatta - Sr. Associate, Krishna & Saurastri Associates