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NALSAR UNIVERSITY OF LAW

Accredited in 'A++' grade with a score of 3.52 on a four point scale by NAAC in Cycle 2

Anindya Sircar - IPR Chair

Innovative, profit oriented personnel with demonstrated success in setting up and streamlining all IP activities in multiple industry domains, achieving cost reductions and improving client satisfaction in customer-facing operations in large, diverse organizations. Expertise in IP acquisitions, management and implementation of complex corporate acquisition and successful organizational integrations. 

Talent for analyzing competitive landscape, providing IP/research inputs and aligning product outputs with customer requirements. Reputation as a change agent with the ability to analyze issues, devise continuous process improvements and incorporate business process initiatives to increase efficiency, streamline operations and decrease aggregate expenses with limited resources. 

Actively associated with academics in several capacities at multiple institutes – teachings. paper setter, examination & evaluation from undergraduate to PhD level.

AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS    

AWARDS

 

➢ IP Leadership Award – IPR Gorila, Singapore for contribution in the field of IP (2019).

➢ Excellence Award for establishing an Open Source Management system for the organization and its subsidiaries (2015).

➢ XIA Business Leader of the Year from St. Xavier’s College Calcutta Alumni Association (2014).

➢ Excellence Award for establishing an IP Licensing system for the organization and its subsidiaries (2013).

➢ Outstanding Team Contribution Award for a record number of patent filings for the Biocon Group (2003).

➢ Important Contribution award for initiating and building a Good Patent Regime within the Company (1999).

➢ Outstanding Team Contribution Award for developing a process in meeting International Specifications for Lovastatin (1998).

➢ Fellowship for Doctoral Research from UGC, New Delhi (1994).

➢ Qualified in GATE (1994).

➢ Special Seminar Prize from Indian Biophysical Society (1993).

➢ RBI Golden Jubilee Scholarship (1986 – 1988).

 

ACHIEVEMENTS

➢ Figured in IAM Strategy 300 – The World’s Leading IP Strategists 2021.

➢ Figured in IAM Strategy 300 – The World’s Leading IP Strategists 2020.

➢ Figured in IAM Strategy 300 – The World’s Leading IP Strategists 2019.

➢ Figured in IAM Strategy 300 – The World’s Leading IP Strategists 2018.

➢ Figured in Top 100 IP Leaders in India – World IP Forum 2018.

➢ Figured in IAM Strategy 300 – The World’s Leading IP Strategists 2017.

➢ Figured in the Lex Witness’s Hall of Fame – Top 50 as a prominent player in the India’s legal sector in 2010.

➢ Structured, streamlined and optimized all IP activities for Infosys and its subsidiaries.

➢ Set-up in house Intellectual Property and Patents (IPR) department for the Biocon Group of Companies.

  • CPVA (Certified Patent Valuation Analyst) – 2011.

  • Ph.D. (Law) from NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad. Thesis Title: “Legal regime of patent protection in biotechnology”; under the supervision of Prof. (Dr.) Ranbir Singh (2007).

  • DL – 101 (General Course on Intellectual Property) administered by WIPO Academy, Geneva (2001).

  • Registered Patent Agent (No IN/PA 407) from February, 2001.

  • Ph.D. (Microbiology) from Osmania University, Hyderabad. Thesis Title: “Studies on the production of Clavulanic Acid by Streptomyces clavuligerus through solid state fermentation”; under the supervision of Dr. (Mrs.) Padma Sridhar. (1997).

  • M.Sc. (Biochemistry) from the University of Calcutta (1993).

  • B.Sc. with Chemistry (Honors), Physics, Mathematics and English from St. Xavier’s College, Calcutta (1991).

  • Patents

  • IP Management and Strategy

  • IP Prosecution

  • IP Valuation and Due Diligence

  • Cyber Law

  • Data Privacy and Security

PUBLICATIONS

  • Forthcoming: COVIV-19: IP and Equitable Access.

  • Intellectual Property Rights – Contemporary Developments (2020): Patenting of Life Forms (Chapter 19). ISBN 978-93-89891-50-8.

  • Intellectual Property Rights – Contemporary Developments (2020): Rasgulla with a Tag (Chapter 30). ISBN 978-93-89891-50-8.

  • IP Era (July-August 2017): Did the Wright Brothers go Wrong?

  • Legal Era (May 2017): IP Transactions.

  • IP Era (March-April 2017): A Stitch in Time.

  • IP Era (February 2017): Whose Electric Bulb is it Anyway?

  • Express Pharma Pulse (2003): As 2005 draws near.

  • Express Pharma Pulse (2001): Patentability, technology and society.

  • Pharmary (2000): Absurdities of Intellectual Property Rights. 11:1-4

  • Process Biochemistry (1998): Optimization of solid state Medium for the production of Clavulanic Acid by Streptomyces Clavuligerus. 33:283-289.

  • Express Pharma Pulse (November 27, 1997): Antibiotics – Past and present.

  • 37th Annual Conference of AMI, Chennai (1996): Extraction and purification of Clavulanic Acid from Streptomyces clavuligerus fermentation broth using organic solvents.

  • Indian Journal of Experimental Biology (1996): Development of Indicators for Cephamycin bioassay. 34:816-817.

  • Pharmary (1996): Drug synthesis by genetically engineered Microorganisms. 8:7-13.

  • Pharmary (1995): Genetic manipulation of antibiotic producing strains. 7:51-54.

PATENTS

  • METHOD FOR PRODUCING MYCOPHENOLIC ACID. 2753/MAS/98 dated December 09, 1998. Patent No: 188410.

  • METHOD OF PRODUCING ESTERS OF MYCOPHENOLATE. 2754/MAS/98 dated December 09, 1998. Patent No: 188985.

  • METHOD OF PRODUCING LIPSTATIN AND ITS HYDROXY DERIVATIVES. 2755/MAS/98 dated December 09, 1998.

  • METHOD OF PRODUCING ESTERS OF MYCOPHENOLATE. PCT/IN99/00070 dated December 09, 1999. Publication No.: WO 00/34503.

  • MANUFACTURE AND PURIFICATION OF MYCOPHENOLIC ACID. PCT/IN00/00017 dated February 29, 2000. Publication No: WO 01/64931.

  • MANUFACTURE AND PURIFICATION OF CYCLOSPORIN A. PCT/IN00/00018 dated February 29, 2000. Publication No: WO 01/64935.

  • PREPARATION AND PURIFICATION OF COMPACTIN. PCT/IN00/00049 dated April 27, 2000. Publication No: WO 01/81611.

  • METHODS OF PRODUCING ESTERS OF MYCOPHENOLATE. EP 99964770.4 dated May 29, 2001 Patent No: EP 1 137 795.

  • METHODS OF PRODUCING ESTERS OF MYCOPHENOLATE. CA 2,354,554 dated June 04, 2001 Patent No: CA 2,354,554.

  • METHODS OF PRODUCING ESTERS OF MYCOPHENOLATE. US 09/857,579 dated June 07, 2001 Patent No: US 6,709,846.

  • MANUFACTURE AND PURIFICATION OF CYCLOSPORIN A. IN/PCT/2002/01245/CHE dated August 12, 2002 Patent No: 198647.

  • MANUFACTURE AND PURIFICATION OF MYCOPHENOLIC ACID. CA 2,401, 699 dated August 29, 2002 Patent No: CA 2,401, 699.

  • MANUFACTURE AND PURIFICATION OF MYCOPHENOLIC ACID. CZ PV 2002 – 2913 dated August 29, 2002 Patent No: CZ 2002-2913.

  • MANUFACTURE AND PURIFICATION OF MYCOPHENOLIC ACID. EP 00911239.2 dated August 29, 2002. Patent No: EP 1 259 631.

  • MANUFACTURE AND PURIFICATION OF MYCOPHENOLIC ACID. JP 2001-563619 dated August 29, 2002 Patent No: JP 2003-525052.

  • MANUFACTURE AND PURIFICATION OF MYCOPHENOLIC ACID. US 10/220225 dated August 29,2002 Patent No: US 6,927,047.

  • MANUFACTURE AND PURIFICATION OF CYCLOSPORIN A. CA 2,401,700 dated August 29, 2002 Patent No: CA 2,401, 700.

  • MANUFACTURE AND PURIFICATION OF CYCLOSPORIN A. EP 00914350.4 dated August 29, 2002. Patent No: EP 1 261 732

  • MANUFACTURE AND PURIFICATION OF CYCLOSPORIN A. US 10/220226 dated August 29, 2002 Patent No: US 7,176,001

 

 

IP & Cyber Law

  • Responsible for teachings, paper setter, examination & evaluation from under graduate to PhD level at multiple Law Schools and other institutes.

  • Member of Board of Studies and Governing Council in multiple Law School.

  • Workshops / Seminars / Conferences.

  • IP awareness & trainings.

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