Prof. Gouri Gargate

IIT Kharagpur

Prof. Gargate has 27+ years of experience as a teacher, researcher, consultant, Patent Associate, and research scientist. Her educational background is Ph.D.- IP management, IIT Bombay, LLM (IPR), University of Mumbai - Gold medal, LLB, University of Mumbai, M.Sc.(Industrial Microbiology) - Gold medal, B.Sc. (Microbiology), Registered Patent Agent (IN/PA/1930), TIFAC scholar, PGDMLT- University of Mumbai, PG Diploma in patent law - NALSAR, Hyderabad, UGC-SET, PET- University of Mumbai, DL101-WIPO. She has been recognized as the “WIPF Powerful Women in IP - INDIA 2021”, and “Successful TIFAC scientist-2021”. She has published her research work in reputed international journals. She has presented her research work in various international conferences organised at various places across world such as USA, Canada, England, France, Dubai, and many more. She worked as guest editor for a special issue published by INDERSCIENCE - MIPS 2014. She has organized a few national and international conferences on IPR. MIPS 2014 international conference proceeding is published by Elsevier, for which she is a co-editor. She has developed five Swayam courses, which are available online free of cost, and benefitted almost 1,00,000 + learners. She has been a resource person in various programs such as FDPs, conferences, seminars and delivered key notes/ invited talks on various IP topics. As a Patent Associate, she handled number of projects such as patent filing & prosecution, IP auditing, patent mining, patent searching & drafting, oppositions, IP valuation, competitive intelligence, technology landscapes, technology transfers, FTOs, patentability search reports, and so on. She has developed various tools and models for IP management, and she helps organisations in their IP portfolio management. She do provide consultancy to private organisations in various IP subdomains. She do organises “IP workshops” and “IP clinics” to help inventors for identification of “inventions for patent filing” along with its further management & commercialisation. She is in the advisory committees of several institutions. She had conducted several consultancy & research projects for Government and non-government organisations. Before shifting her career to IP, she was working as an Assistant Professor of Microbiology and she was recognized PG professor of Microbiology in University of Mumbai. She was an examiner for Microbiology & Biotechnology in SNDT University, PGDMLT (AICTE), along with University of Mumbai.

NOC: Intellectual Property Disputes: Court Practices and Enforcement, IIT Kharagpur