Invited Talk: “IPR – from Knowledge to Prosperity”
IPR – from Knowledge to Prosperity
Research and Innovation creates social and economic value. Intellectual Property (IP) is an automatic by product of innovation. The various stages involved in converting innovations to economic value include IP creation, IP captur e, IP protection, IP managemen t, and IP commercialisation. Each of these stages are closely tied to the others, and in order to get the benefits of innovation such as licensing revenue, sale of IP assets, spin offs for commercialisation, one has to execute each step of the IP Life cycle in a strategic manner.
Speaker details:
Arjun Bala is an IIT Bombay alumnus, a registered patent attorney (since 2004), a CPVA (Certified Patent Valuation Analyst), and Managing Partner of Metayage IP Strategy Consulting LLP. At Metayage IP, Arjun has prepared and prosecuted hundreds of patent applications in India and the US. Prior to founding Metayage in 2006, Arjun headed India operations for a US patent law firm, where he was trained by leading US patent attorneys on US patent prosecution and due diligence.