#Knowledge Tuesday

The IIT Madras HTIC Medtech Incubator is excited to host the ” Knowledge Tuesday” series. The aim of this series is to bring subject matter experts from different domains to share insights on the upcoming trends, technologies and bottlenecks . Weekly dose of knowledge to further empower the entrepreneurs/ start-ups to acquire and develop on their existing knowledge on different aspects of entrepreneurship. The Knowledge Tuesday will be hosted every Tuesday.

Speaker: Ritika Ahuja, Director-IP, Anand and Anand

Topic for this week: Introduction to Patent Prior-Art Search

Date: 29^th Sep 2020

Time: 5 PM to 6 PM

Registration link: https://forms.gle/vs518LZxPpP3oZFB9

Link to join the session: https://meet.google.com/gtc-hfqb-ojq

Ritika Ahuja, Director-IP, Anand and Anand (LinkedIn)

Ms. Ritika is a Director-IP at Anand and Anand. She specializes in patent prosecution, patent drafting and patent searching, analysis in the ICT/Computer science domain and provides legal opinions on various aspects such as infringement, FTO and patentability with an overall experience of 13+ years in the IP industry,

Ms. Ritika regularly appears before the Indian Patent Office and the Intellectual Property Appellate Board. She is adept at handling voluminous patent portfolios of various top telecom giants. The hyperactive ICT segment keeps her engaged in practicing the firm’s unpatented but most effective strategy of “smart prosecution”.  She has been managing the patent drafting team, in-house and outsourced both. She worked for 8 years in the field of patents, prior to joining Anand and Anand and also served as the Academic Head/In-House Mentor with an Intellectual Property Rights Institute for two years in the past. Ms. Ritika is a registered Patent Agent and Member at Delhi Bar Council.