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Dr. D.R.Agarwal - Director
Education
B.Com (Hons.), Calcutta University (West Bengal, IN)
FCA, LLB, PhD (Economics) |
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Professional Profile
Dr. Agarwal has been practicing as Chartered Accountant since February 1982. He is the Visiting Faculty in Institute of Company Secretaries of India in Modular Training Programme. He is also the Director of Institute of International Trade, Kolkata.
He has participated in various international conference/seminars such as 5th WTO Ministerial Conference in Cancun, Mexico, 10-14th September 2003; 6th Ministerial Conference held in Hong Kong from 13-18th December,2005. He has also participated in various panel discussion on Seminars and Conferences on various topics relating to International Trade, Intellectual Property, Accountancy, Taxation and Economics organised by various Chamber of Commerce and other NGOs.
He has written articles in various Newspapers and Magazines occassionally. He has extensively travelled around the world on professional and academic assignments.
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N K Pandey - Director
Education
B.Sc, University of Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradeash, IN), LL.B, Calcutta University (West Bengal, IN) |
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Professional Profile
After completing his LLB from the University of Calcutta, he got enrolled as Advocate in the year 1987 with the Bar Council of West Bengal, India and was associated with the profession for a brief period before he joined the corporate sector in the field of Law.
He started his career in the field of Law with M/s TCI Ltd. at Bangalore and gained rich experience of working in various capacities before he took up the responsibility to Head the Corporate Legal function of M/s Gati Ltd. and all its Group companies and has been working with the Group since last 20 years.
After successfully handling both litigation and non litigation areas touching the laws relating to Intellectual Property, Contract, Company Law, Joint Ventures, Corporate Governance, Company Law Board matters etc. He has also being advising to the Management and other functions including Board of Directors on all key legal issues having bearing on the organization.
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Peter H Jayakumar - Director
Education
B.Com, FCA., |
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Professional Profile
Peter H. Jayakumar plays a key advisory role to the management on all key commercial activities. He is also the Country Chief of Risk Management function of Gati Limited, Hyderabad, A.P., India.
His major areas of focus includes Internal Audit Management, Legal Risk Management, Statutory compliance and Corporate Governance, Taxation matters, System design, development and implementation of process with focus on controls, Legal Risk management, Regulatory and statutory compliance, Due Diligence,etc.
His quest for knowledge made him a frequent visitor to the prestigious educational institutions such as Indian School of Business, Indian Institutes of Management, XLRI, Jamshedpur; Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, The Institute of Internal Auditors-India etc.
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Dr. M. Sudha
Education:
Ph.D. in Microbiology, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, (Orissa, IN); M. Sc. in Microbiology, Orissa University of Agriculture & Technology, Bhubaneswar, (Orissa, IN); B. Sc. in Botany, Orissa University of Agriculture & Technology, Bhubaneswar, (Orissa, IN) |
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Professional Profile:
Dr. M. Sudha is a registered patent agent since 2005 in the field of IPR. Presently she is working as an IP Analyst dealing in Patent matters. She is well versed in drafting of Patent specifications. |
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P. Srirama Murthy
Education:
LL.M., LL.B., M.A., B.A. from Osmania University. |
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Professional profile:
He is an expert in Civil, Criminal, Constitution, Company law, Arbitration, Contract, Property, Consumer, Service law, IPR, Municipal and Labour and N.I act etc. |
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Ravindra Kumar G.
Education
Bcom, LLB from Osmania University (MBL – National Law College, Blore) Technical Exposures: PDDCA, DCA |
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Professional profile
An an enrolled Advocate, he had good exposure to all basic trial court procedures, drafting, petition filing, arguments and conducting trials in all Civil court, High court and other quasi-judicial authorities in Hyderabad and Secunderabad. |
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Vikas Vyas
Education
B.Arts; Gujrat University (Gujrat, IN)
LL.B; Gujrat University (Gujrat, IN) |
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Professional profile
With legal expertise of more than a decade, in areas of filing and prosecution of Copyrights and Trademarks, drafting and vetting of contracts, franchise agreements, vendor etc. Vikas is currently working as an IP Anlayst in ITAG. |
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Dinesh Goud
Education
B.Com., L.L.B., L.L.M. specialized in Criminal Law from Osmania University, Hyderabad. |
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Professional profile
He is independently handling the legal matters of all associate companies of Gati Ltd. He is an expert in all legal matters related to Carries Act, Copy Rights, Trade Marks, Motor Vehicles act, NI act etc. |
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Biswarup Chakraborty
Education
Registered Patent Agent, Government of India.
GNIIT from NIIT in 2004. |
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Professional profile
Biswarup is a registered patent agent with over five years experience in the field of IPR. He has handled a large number of matters relating to Patents, Trademark, Design and PCT filings. He has worked with NICHE Intellectual Property Law Offices. At ITAG, his domain of expertise is in Patents. |
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Lipika Pain
Education
Registered Patent Agent, Government of India.
B.Science in Zoology; Delhi University (Delhi, IN) |
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Professional profile
Lipika is a practising patent agent since 2003 having expertise in handling International and Indian patent apllications' filing and drafting in India as well as abroad. She is also well versed in patent post grant matters. |
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Abhinandan Mohapatra
Education
LL.M in Business Law, Utkal University (Orissa, IN)
B.A.LL.B (Hons), Utkal University (Orissa, IN) |
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Professional profile
Before joining ITAG, Abhinandan successfully completed a certificate course in IPR from WIPO Geneva. At ITAG, he deals with Trademarks related matters. |
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Neeraj Kejriwal
Education
B.Commerce; Calcutta University (West Bengal, IN) |
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Professional profile
With management expertise of more than 5 years, Neeraj is incharge of the overall business administration and looks after the implementation of the Quality Management Systems developed as per ISO 9001:2000 standards. He is also the Chief Accountant at ITAG. |
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Indu Bhushan Mishra
Education
B.Commerce; Calcutta University (West Bengal, IN) |
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Professional profile
Indu worked with GATI Ltd. as a Zonal Accountant & Zonal Auditor for entire East Zone before joining ITAG in October 2007 and is currently the Accounts Officer. |
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Navin Agarwal
Education
B.Commerce; Calcutta University (West Bengal, IN) |
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Professional profile
After completing his graduation Navin joined us on December 2007. He is currently working as an Marketing Intern. He is also a part of the Accounts team. |
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Namrata Seth
Education:
B.Commerce; Calcutta University (West Bengal, IN), ACA,
Chartered Accountant. |
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Professional Profile:
With 2 years of experience as a practising Chartered Accountant and a Senior Executive in a firm engaged in International Trade, she has joined ITAG in October 2008 and is currently Country Head - Singapore. |
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Mou Saha
Education:
M.Sc in Microbiology, Bangalore University
Post Graduate Diploma in Patents Law, NALSAR
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Professional profile:
She has 3 years of Experience in the field of IPR. Her area of expertise is Patent search, analysis, landscaping. She joined ITAG as IP analyst. |
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Sutapa Sengupta
Education:
LL.B; Calcutta University |
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Professional profile:
She is a Trademark Agent. Before joining ITAG, Sutapa was working with a Kolkata based Law firm. Her area of expertise is in trademark, copyright. She has joined ITAG as an IP Analyst. |
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Sudipta Mallick
Education:
B-Tech in Chemical Engg; Haldia Institute of Technology.
Post Graduate in Intellectual Proptry Law; IIT Kharagpur.
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Professional profile:
After completing his Post graduation, he has joined ITAG as IP Analyst. |
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Madhuryamay Das
Education:
B.Tech, PGP, IIT, Kharagpur
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Professional profile:
After completing his Post graduation in Intellectual Property Management from IIT, Kharagpur, he worked as an intern in the field of R&D and IPR Research at a renowned Biopharmaceutical Company as well as University College of Science, Calcutta University. He has joined ITAG as IP Analyst. |
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Amitava Chakraborty
Education:
B.Tech from WBUT, Durgapur.
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Professional profile:
He is a Registered Patent Agent (Govt.of India) with over two years experience in the field of IPR. He has handled a good number of matters relating to Patents and his area of expertise is in Drafting of Patents of various domains (Biolotechnolgy ,Instrumentation, Application S/W, Chemical), Searching, Filing (National and International both), Patent Analysis. |
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Sajal Dutta
Education:
B.Tech in Biotechnology; Bengal College of Engineering & Technology, Durgapur, WB
LL.B with Specialization in IPR; Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, WB
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Professional profile:
He is a Registered Patent Agent, previously he worked in different Law Firms as an interns on Patent, Design and Trademark. He is an expert to deal with all Patent and other IPRs related matters. After completion of his post graduation he joined in ITAG as IP Analyst. |
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Tuhin Chatterjee
Education:
M.Sc. Bio-informatics from Sikkim Manipal University
REGISTERED PATENT AGENT, Govt. of India.
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Professional profile:
He has worked with leading Law firms in India, in the area of Patent filing (National, International), Drafting, Prosecution, Patentability Analysis etc.. He has more than three years of patent prosecution experience in various technological areas. His domain of expertise includes patenting Genomics, Proteomics, Bio-informatics, nano-Biotechnology and Bio-pharmaceutical innovations. |
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