Keynote Speakers

Speakers in Technical Sessions
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Teresa Stanek Rea
Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of the USPTO

Teresa Stanek Rea is Deputy Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Ms. Rea oversees an office that encourages innovation and technological advancement, and helps businesses protect their investments, promote their goods and safeguard against deception in the marketplace.

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Jayashree Watal
Counsellor, IP Division World Trade Organization

Watal is currently Counsellor in the Intellectual Property Division of the World Trade
Organization. Prior to this, she has more than 22 years’ government experience in India, of which ten years was devoted to policy, diplomacy, research and administration on intellectual property rights. She worked as Director, Trade Policy Division, Ministry of
Commerce, and represented India at a crucial stage in the Uruguay Round of Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) negotiations

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Naresh Nandan Prasad
Executive Director & Chief of Staff, WIPO

Prasad has served in the Indian Ministry of Commerce and Industry for over 10 years, the last four years as India’s focal point for intellectual property issues. He was India’s chief intellectual property negotiator in the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) . In addition, he was responsible for intellectual property negotiations at the regional level and at the bilateral level he managed India’s relations with the US, EU countries and with the
European Patent Office

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Narendra K. Sabharwal
Former Deputy Director General, WIPO

Sabharwal, a national of India, was Deputy Director General, Cooperation for Development Sector, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Geneva, from December 1, 2006 to November 30, 2009. He managed and supervised the development cooperation, technical assistance and capacity building program of WIPO in the area of intellectual property in all developing countries, least developed countries (LDCs) and countries- in- transition

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P.H. Kurian
Controller General of Patents, Design and Trademarks, Indian Patent Office (IN)

Kurian is an IAS officer of 1986 batch of Indian Administrative Services (IAS). Before taking over as Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trademarks on 22nd January 2009, he was a Secretary to Government of Kerala, (Industries-Investment Promotion). He holds a Master Degree in Chemistry and did research for three years in the Institute of Science, Bangalore which is one of prestigious Institutes of India.

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Michael Dzwonczyk
Partner, Sughrue Mion PLLC (USA)

Mr. Dzwonczyk has 20 years experience successfully representing multinational companies as lead counsel in trials and appeals of patent cases and Section 337 cases at the International Trade Commission. His experience has encompassed technical areas that include recombinantly produced hormones, pharmaceuticals, protein synthesis and expression products, fibers, films, polymers, plastics and medical devices Mr. Dzwonczyk also counsels clients on intellectual property issues, including validity and infringement of intellectual property rights, licensing and contract matters and Hatch-Waxman issues.

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Dr. R.K Malhotra
Director (Research & Development),
Indian Oil Corporation Ltd.