Author · Patent Consultant · IP Strategist
A practitioner at the intersection of intellectual property law and literary imagination. Two decades of patent prosecution, claim drafting, and IP strategy for technology companies across Asia and Europe — alongside four published works of fiction and non-fiction that explore the same questions of ownership, originality, and the life of ideas.
Patent prosecution and claim drafting across electronics, software, and mechanical domains for clients in India, Europe, and the United States.
Freedom-to-operate analyses, prior art searches, and IP landscape reports for early-stage technology companies.
Counsel on patent portfolio strategy, licensing negotiations, and inter partes review proceedings.
Workshops and training programmes on IP literacy for engineering and product teams.
Led a team of six patent agents handling a portfolio of over 400 active applications.
Established the firm's software and business-method patent practice.
Represented clients before the Indian Patent Office in examination and opposition proceedings.
Developed internal claim-drafting standards adopted across the firm.
Examination of patent applications in Class G (Physics) and Class H (Electricity).
Prior art searches using international patent databases and scientific literature.
Contributed to internal guidelines for software-related inventions.
A practitioner's guide to patent strategy written for inventors, product managers, and founders — combining two decades of claim-drafting experience with a clear-eyed view of what the patent system can and cannot protect.
A collection of poems on precision, language, and the difficulty of saying exactly what one means — themes that run through both legal drafting and literary practice.
A bilingual novel set between Delhi and London, tracing a family across three generations through the objects they leave behind and the stories those objects cannot tell.
A near-future novel in which a patent attorney discovers that the system she has spent her career defending has begun to claim ownership of human memory itself.
The Claim as Literature: Precision and Ambiguity in Patent Drafting
Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice
Software Patents in India: A Decade After the Guidelines
Indian Journal of Law and Technology
Originality and the Machine: AI-Generated Inventions and the Inventorship Problem
WIPO Magazine
Prior Art and the Archive: What Patent Examiners Can Learn from Historians
IPO Annual Review
The Bilingual Claim: Drafting Patents Across Legal Traditions
European Intellectual Property Review
LLM, Intellectual Property Law
Queen Mary University of London
LLB (Hons)
Faculty of Law, University of Delhi
BSc, Electronics Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
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