10th Global Intellectual Property Convention 2018 | Global Intellectual Property | 23 January 2018 | Sheraton Grand Bangalore, A Block, 26/1, Doctor Rajkumar Road, Rajaji Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560055, India

Global Intellectual Property Convention (GIPC) is Asia's leading conference for in-house IP counsels and innovators to interact with IP attorneys from around the world to discuss best practices and solutions to maximise the value of their innovation and IP. Since 2009, more than two thousand delegates have participated from over 50 countries.

2018 Speakers:

Mr. Hari Subramaniam
Managing Partner, Subramaniam & Associates

Hon'ble Minister Mr. Suresh Prabhu
Minister of Commerce & Industry Govt. India

Mr. V. Lakshmikumaran
Founder & Managing Partner, Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan attorneys

Prof. Dr. Heinz Goddar
Partner, Boehmert & Boehmert

Prof. Dr. Peter Meier-Beck
Judge, German Federal Supreme Court

Mr. Pravin Anand
Managing Partner, Anand and Anand

Dr. Stephan Wolke
Head of IP & Services, Thyssenkrupp AG

Mr. Beat Weibel
Chief IP Counsel, Siemens

Justice K. N. Basha
Former Chairman, Intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB)

Ms. Meenu Chandra
Senior Attorney Manager, IP& DCU Lead (India Region), Microsoft Corp. (India) Pvt. Ltd

Ms. Azy S. Kokabi
Partner, Sughrue Mion Pllc

Mr. Erik van der Vyver
Partner and Patent Attorney, Von Seidels

Prof. Dr. -Ing. Sigram Schindler
Founder & CEO, TELES Patent Rights International

Mr. Narendra Sabharwal
Chairman, FICCI IPR Committee

Dr. Stefan Schohe
Partner, Boehmert & Boehmert

Dr. Shlomo Cohen
Founder, Dr. Shlomo Cohen & Co

Mr. Naresh Prasad
Assistant Director General, WIPO

Dr. Dhanpat Ram Agarwal
Founding Director, ITAG Business Solutions Ltd.

Mr. Mahendra Kumar Agarwal
Founder & CEO, Gati Limited

Dr. Abiola Inniss
Founding Director, Caribbean and Americas Intellectual property Organization (CAAIPO)

Mr. Juergen Dressel
Head Global Patent Litigation Strategy, Novartis Pharma AG

Mr. Raghavender G.R.
Joint Secretary, Department of Justice, Ministry of Law & Justice, Government of India.

Mr. Terry Ludlow
President, TechInsights

Ms. Bishakha Bhattacharya
Senior Director and Head- Public Policy and Government Affairs, NASSCOM

Ms. Vaishali Mittal
Partner, Anand and Anand

Dr. M. Lakshmikumaran
Director - IPR, Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan attorneys

Mr. Satish Tiwary
Head - IP, Airbus India

Dr. Markus Engelhard
Partner, Boehmert & Boehmert

Dr. Carl Richard Haarmann
Partner, Boehmert & Boehmert

Dr. Raj Hirwani
Director, CSIR

Mr. Martyn Fish
Partner, HGF LAW LLP

Mr. Rahul Dubey
Innovation Leader & IP Manager Patents & Analytics CoE, GE

Mr. Amarjit Singh
President, AIPPI (Indian Group)

Mr. Sanjaykumar Patel
Head, IP rights, Gowrie Research (B&S Group UK)

Mr. Faiz ur Rahman
Senior Manager, Wipro

Dr. Claudia Pappas
Head - Trademark Dept., Thyssenkrupp AG

Ms. Chitra K. Iyer
Head of Philips Intellectual Property & Standards, Philips

Mr. Parthasarathy R
Principal Partner & Country Head, Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan Attorneys

Dr. Ute Kilger
Partner, Boehmert & Boehmert

Mr. Anubhav Kapoor
General Counsel & Company Secretary, Tata Technologies

Dr. Manish Kumar
Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, NSDC

Mr. Tabrez Ahmad
Director Corporate Affairs, eBay Inc.

Mr. Zameer Nathani
Director-Legal, Raymond

Mr. Rowan Joseph
Patent Litigator, Von Seidels

Mr. Rowan Joseph
Patent Litigator, Von Seidels

Ms. Lakshika Joshi
Global IP Head and Legal Leadership, Aricent

Mr. Patrick C. Keane
Executive Shareholder, Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney

Mr. Taranpreet Singh Lamba
Vice President - IPM, Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Ltd

Mr. Kanwal Rai
Vice President, Wells Fargo

Dr. Sheetal Chopra
India Lead - IPR Advocacy, Ericsson India Pvt. Ltd.

Mr. Gregory L. Maurer
Partner, Klarquist Sparkman

Mr. Amitabh Dixit
Director Patent Licensing, Technical, Nokia

Mr. Balwant Rawat
Senior Program Manager-IP, Daimler India

Ms. Jaya Murthy
Leader, Eaton Corporation

Prof. Dr. V. C. Vivekanand
Founder Dean, Bennett University

Mr. Ravi Bhola
Partner, K & S Partners

Ms. Doerte Schoenberg
Inventor, TELES Patent Rights International

Mr. Avaronnan Harish Chandran
Patent Manager, Novozymes South Asia Pvt. Ltd.

Dr. Alpesh Pathak
Head Patent Cell, Intas Pharmaceuticals

Dr. Prachi Tiwari
Director (Head) - IPM, Fresenius Kabi Oncology Ltd

Mr. Naresh Kilaru
Partner, Finnegan

Mr. Jay A. Erstling
Of Counsel, Patterson Thuente IP

Ms. Aditi Subramaniam
Associate Principal, Subramaniam & Associates

Mr. Irfan Modi
Senior IP Law Attorney, IBM India

Mr. Anand Sharma
Partner, Finnegan

Ms. Upasana Patel
Partner, Marks & Clerk Singapore LLP

Mr. R. Lakshminarayanan
General Manager - IPR, Samsung Electronics

Dr. Tara R Prasad
Corporate IP Professional, Tata Consultancy Services

Ms. Archana Shanker
Senior Partner, Anand and Anand

Mr. Anil Jagalur
Senior Consultant, LexOrbis

Mr. Elliott Simcoe
Partner, Smart & Biggar/Fetherstonhaugh

Mr. Shinichiro Tanaka
Partner, Nakamura & Partners

Mr. Tarun Khurana
Partne, Khurana And Khurana Advocates

Mr. Munish Sudan
Head - IP, TATA Steel

Dr. Sumesh Reddy
Head Global IP, Cipla

Mr. Madhav Kulkarni
IP (Patent) Professional, Dow Chemical

Dr. Shankar M Venugopal
Vice President - Technology Innovation & KM, Dean Mahindra Technical Academy, Mahindra & Mahindra

Mr. Selvyn Seidel
Founder & Chairman, FULBROOK CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC

Dr. A.K.S. Bhujanga Rao
President - R&D and Technical, NATCO Pharma

Mr. Andy Camenisch
Partner, HGF LAW LLP

Mr. Arshad Jamil
Associate Vice President & Head - IPR, Biocon Limited

Dr. S. K. Murthy
Patent Counsel, Intel India

Mr. Suresh Chandran
Associate Principal, Subramaniam & Associates

Dr. Mahendra B. Thakre
General Manager - IPR, Mylan Laboratories

Mr. Gautam Bakshi
Head - IPM, Unichem Laboratories Limited

Prof. Anil K. Gupta
Faculty, Indian Institute of Management

Mr. Timothy H. Kratz
Partner, Kratz & Barry LLP

Mr. Sanjeev K. Tiwari
Partner, K & S Partners

Mr. Ganapathy Narayanan
IP Governance Lead, Tata Consultancy Services

Mr. K Subodh Kumar
Corporate IP Professional, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd

Dr. Nar Subramanian
IP Navigator, Tata Consultancy Services

Mr. John M. Lunsford
Associate, Klarquist Sparkman

Dr. Nagesh Kadaba
Senior Advisor, ipCapital Group Inc.

Ms. Maaike van Velzen
Head of IP Portfolio Management, Philips

Mr. Derek Richmond
Of Counsel, Harness Dickey

Mr. Clive Thorne
Special Counsel, Baker Botts LLP

Ms. Vanessa P. Bailey
Senior Intellectual Property Policy Counsel, Intel Corporation

Mr. Vladimir Biriulin
Partner, Gorodissky & Partners

Dr. Manoj Madhukar Haridas
Head - IP, ITC Limited

Dr. Ulrich Storz
Senior Partner, Michalski Huettermann & Partner Patent Attorneys

Dr. Torsten Exner
Partner, Michalski Hüttermann & Partner Patent Attorneys

Joint Partner
Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan Attorneys

Mr. Prashant Phillips
Partner & Practice Head, Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan Attorneys

Mr. Sudeendra Koushik
Partner, Prasu - Developing Smart Innovators, Intrapreneurs, Delivering Business relevant Innovation Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode

Mrs. Pragya Dixit
Chief Entrepreneur & Co-Founder, Prasu - Developing Smart Innovators, Intrapreneurs, Delivering Business relevant Innovation Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode

Mr. Biju K. Nair
Licensing Lead ( India), Open Invention Network

Mr. Nathan C. Belzer
Founding Member, Belzer PC

Mr. George J. Barry III
Partner, Kratz & Barry

Mr. Adrian Bradley
Partner, Cleveland Scott York

Dr. Vivek Kashyap
Senior Manager, Roche

Dr. Jyoti Singh
Head - IP, ACS International India Pvt Ltd

Mr. Maciej Hulicki
Research Assistant, TELES Patent Rights International

Prof. Bernd Wegner
Mathematics Department, Technical University Berlin

Dr. Akshaya Kant Chaturvedi
Associate VP-IP & BD, Granules India Limited

Dr. Marlena Jankowska
Assistant Professor, University of Silesia

Mr. Rajiv Bhatnagar
Director - Technical, Anand and Anand

Mr. Yogen Vaidya
Partner, Ernst & Young LLP

Mr. Omesh Puri
Associate Partner, LexOrbis

Mr. Omesh Puri
Associate Partner, LexOrbis

Dr. Rajeev Gupta
Partner, Finnegan

Prof. Prabuddha Ganguli
Ceo, VISION-IPR

prof. Sławomir Augustyn
Associate professor, Military University of Technology, Warsaw

Ms. Ashima Katara
Patent Manager, Hindustan Unilever Limited

Ms. Karen Fraser
Senior Associate, Kilburn & Strode LLP

Mr. Rahul Vartak
Director - Patents, Roche

2018 Sponsors:

STAR:
• Subramaniam & Associates

DIAMOND:
• Anand and Anand

MANAGED BY:
• ITAG Business Solutions Ltd.

ORGANIZED BY:
• Institute of International Trade

CO-ORGANIZED BY:
• Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan attorneys

KNOWLEDGE:
• Sughrue Mion

GOLD:
• Microsoft
• Boehmert & Boehmert

SILVER:
• Kratz & Barry LLP

BRONZE:
• United Trademark & Patent Services
• Gorodissky & Partners
• lexOrbis
• Ernst & Young LLP
• Finnegan

STRATEGIC:
• TELES Patent Rights International

ASSOCIATE:
• K & S Partners
• Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC
• anovIP
• Belzer PC
• khurana & khurana
• HASAN AND SINGH
• HGF Limited
• KPIED Business Solutions LLP
• Smart & Biggar/Fetherstonhaugh
• TechInsights USA Inc.
• Rohan Consultancy
• Accures Legal
• Patterson Thuente IP
• Marks & Clerk Singapore LLP
• The Institute of Intellectual Property

EXHIBITORS:
• Minesoft
• darts-ip
• lexis nexis
• EACS International Ltd.
• Syngience Business Solutions
• MikeLegal
• QUANTIFY IP
• Relecura Technologies Pvt Ltd.
• Singh & Associates
• TT Consultant
• Dolcera
• Agency TRIA ROBIT

SUPPORTING:
• Licensing Executives Society - Arab Countries

MAGAZINE:
lex witness

MEDIA:
• Your Story
• Conventus law
• Asia IP Law
• ForPressRelease.com
• India Business Law Journal
• World Intellectual Property Review
• IPPro Patents
• IPPro The Internet

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• OYO Rooms