Intellectual Property (IP) Team

Founders

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Arun K Narasani, CEO and Co-Founder,
Brain League IP Services

Arun is an experienced patent agent with a strong technology background. He has been involved in preparing and prosecuting hundreds of patent applications in India, and US.

Arun plays an important role in developing processes and teams to deliver high quality output in the areas of patent research, patent preparation/filing/prosecution, IP strategy, IP portfolio management, and IP valuation. Arun also takes special interest in innovation leading to valuable IP. He conducts ideation sessions in technology companies to arrive at solutions to real world technology problems.

Arun is passionate about creating and enabling business models and processes that have a fundamental impact in the way organizations conduct business.

Before starting Brain League, Arun worked as a software engineer with various leading companies. He was involved in architecting, designing, and developing complex enterprise applications.

Arun is a B.Tech from IIT, Madras and P.G. from IIM Bangalore. He also attended the advanced licensing institute at Franklin Pierce Law Center, New Hampshire.

Arun has published articles to his credit both in technology and patent practice. Arun has also co-authored a book on Indian Patent Law and Practice (with Dr. Kalyan and Ms. Vinita) published by Oxford University Press.

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Dr. Kalyan C Kankanala,

Founding Partner, Brain League ; and Visiting Faculty, National Law School of India University, Bangalore.

Dr. Kalyan specializes in helping companies extract and maximize business value from intellectual assets. During his illustrious career as an IP professional, he has worked closely with technology driven companies on IP Protection, Strategic IP Analysis, IP Audits, Management of IP,, Strategic Alliances, Licensing and Risk Mitigation.

Since inception of Brain League, Dr. Kalyan has been playing a pivotal role in defining new standards for IP services in India. Challenging the established perceptions and norms and redefining the way IP is practiced, he has developed novel processes and robust mechanisms for helping companies maximize value from IP. In addition to working with established companies, Dr. Kalyan also devotes his time and energy to help start ups, educational institutes and incubators leverage returns from IP.

Dr. Kalyan firmly believes that quality research and education plays a key role in providing services with high standards. In furtherance of his belief, he performs extensive research on various aspects of IP and organizes educational programs on a regular basis. Dr. Kalyan has many national and international publications to his credit, which have been cited extensively. His books entitled, Genetic Patent Law and Strategy, Asian Patent Law' and Indian Patent Law and Practice have received international acclaim and recognition from professionals in the field. He has also co-authored an international work on IP Client Strategies in the Asia-Pacific Region.

Dr. Kalyan is extremely passionate about teaching and offers courses on Intellectual Property as a visiting faculty at National Law School of India University, Bangalore and guest faculty at IIM, Bangalore. Apart from these he also spearheads some full-fledged IP initiatives such as Intellecture, the leading IP Training group for corporates, Intellepedia, an open IP initiative, Open online IP Courses, IP convergence, the first online IP newsletter in India and SiNApSE blog, a leading IP resource. These initiatives have received overwhelming response from corporate professionals and students and are playing an important role in spreading IP knowledge across the world.

Core Team

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Nitin heads the electronics and telecommunications patent services team at Brain League. As a patent manager, he supervises projects related to the electrical, electronics, communications and software sectors. He works with some of the leading companies in electronics and telecommunication sectors on patent searching, drafting and prosecution projects. Nitin also helps clients make decisions on product launch and strategy by providing FTO analysis, infringement analysis and technology landscaping reports.

Nitin is a member of the quality control team at Brain League and plays an important role in defining quality processes and standards. Before starting his career in patents, Nitin worked with companies in the US on projects relating to Radio Frequency and Communications.

Supriya is the head of Chemistry and Pharma patent division. She works with a team of patent experts having doctorate degrees in chemistry, biotech and pharma fields for delivering a variety of patent projects to clients. Supriya works closely with pharma companies on patent search, drafting, filing and prosecution projects. Her speciality is freedom to operate reports and patent expiry advise.

Prior to her career in the field of Intellectual Property, Supriya was working with a pharmaceutical company. She started her career as an Analytical R&D analyst and has gained experience in and has knowledge of pharmaceutical procedures. During her work in the pharma sector she was involved in the analysis and method optimization of various drug formulations (orals, topicals and injectables), where she was required to work closely with the formulation development team. Her expertise was in Multivitamin formulations. During her work in the lab she was involved in method development and method optimization of multivitamin injectables and oral suspensions.

Supriya has a Masters in Biochemistry and has completed courses on IP from leading institutes. She is also a registered patent agent.

Nishant Kewalramani
Head- IP Consulting and Strategy, Brain League IP Services

Mr. Nishant Kewalramani heads the IP Consulting and Strategy Division at Brain League. He holds a Masters degree in Intellectual Property Rights, Commerce & Technology from Franklin Pierce, USA. He is a B.Sc. LLB (Honors) graduate from National Law University, Jodhpur. He is a registered patent and trademark agent.

During his career he has worked on a variety of Intellectual Property issues ranging from filings to strategic management of Intellectual Property. He has immense experience in Intellectual Property Portfolio Management and therefore has dealt with IP filing in various countries including the likes of USA, India and European Union.

As the head of the Consulting and Strategy Division at Brain League he has been a part of various corporate training programs. He also holds advanced certifications in Electronic Commerce and Intellectual Property from World Intellectual Property Organization.

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Vikram Pratap Singh Thakur

As the head of the Biosciences division at Brain League, Vikram leads a team of experts having Doctorate and Masters degrees in various fields such as chemistry, pharmacology and biotechnology. Vikram provides consultation services on various aspects of IP to Health Care, Biotech and Pharma companies. He works with some of the leading corporate groups on various issues relating to patents.

Vikram has experience of providing Patent Searching and Drafting, Infringement and FTO Analysis, Landscape analysis and Patent expiry services in health care, biotech and pharma domains. He has also been working closely with several companies on launching of Generic Products in multiple jurisdictions.

Vikram also worked with several companies on various Open Source license analysis and integration strategies and has research interest in the integration of Open Source concepts to Biotech and Pharma industry. He served as the Editor of IP Convergence (an IP Newsletter) and is also a guest faculty at NALSAR, Hyderabad.

Vikram has a Masters in Intellectual Property Rights from National Law University, Jodhpur and degrees in Bioinformatics and Biotechnology. He is a registered patent and trade mark agent.

Vintee (Mishra) Tiwari
Head – Strategic Alliance and Collaboration

Vintee heads the Strategic Alliance and Collaboration team at Brain League. She holds a masters degree in Intellectual Property Rights (LL.M.) from the National Law University, Jodhpur and is a double graduate in Law (LL.B.) and Management (B.Com (Honours) Management). She is also an Intermediate Clear Company Secretary and a Registered Trade Mark Agent.

Vintee has been associated with Brain League for the past three years and has worked with variety of clients across the industry domains on matters relating to all kinds of Intellectual Property.

She is tremendously experienced in delivering the consultancy services relating to Intellectual Property Licensing, Open Source Software License Analysis, making Intellectual Property Agreement related Strategies and Business Planning, Drafting and Reviewing of Intellectual Property Agreements, handling Intellectual Property Collaboration Consulting and Handholding, Intellectual Property Agreement Negotiations, helping companies in Intellectual Property Excavation and Management, conducting Intellectual Property Audits and Corporate Training Programs on Intellectual Property.

"Som heads the mechanical, manufacturing and prosecution division at Brain League. Som's practice is directed to preparing and prosecuting patent applications for the clients from Automobile, machinery and tools manufacturing, packaging, robotics Industries. He advises clients on prosecution related issues and strategies to be adapted to obtain broadest possible and varied scope of protection to the invention. His team of prosecution specialists coming from various technological backgrounds and having international patent expertise work with the specification drafting team at Brain League to ensure that the specification drafted facilitates effective prosecution at a later stage.

Som brings in around six years of prosecution and drafting experience. Prior to joining Brain League, Som worked in the US at a law firm specializing in patent law and was involved in drafting and prosecuting US patent applications.

Som holds a Master's Degree in Intellectual Property from Franklin Pierce Law Center, USA, and a degree in mechanical engineering.

Kumar Anjani leads Brain League's team at Mumbai. In addition to managing Brain League's Mumbai operations, Anjani works closely with clients on strategic IP planning, filing, prosecution and portfolio management. He specializes in international IP activities and has helped many clients file and acquire patent and trade mark protection across the world. Before moving to Mumbai, Anjani worked in various departments of Brain League where he gained experience and expertise with respect to various aspects of IP ranging from filing to management.

Kumar Anjani is a qualified IP attorney and a registered trade mark agent. He completed his PG Diploma in IP from National Law School of India University, Bangalore and his LL.B. from Bangalore University. He is also the founding member of the IP Club, SiNApSE, which has initiated a wide range of pathbreaking IP programs.