30 January, 2017
LexOrbis have announced the appointment of Mr. D.P.S Parmar as a Senior Consultant with the Firm’s IPAB Practice Group. After joining the Intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB) as Technical Member (Patents) in 2011, Mr. Parmar has been instrumental in writing some path breaking and insightful decisions on Indian Patent law issues including those that established legal positions on excluded subject matters under Section 3(d), 3(i) and 3(k), divisional applications, disclosure requirement under Section 8, working statement, compulsory license, to name a few.
Before joining IPAB, Mr. Parmar had worked with the Indian Patent Office (IPO) for over 27 years and had played very active and vital roles both at administrative and policy levels. He represented India at various rounds of discussions organized by the WIPO and attended follow programs at the European and Japanese Patent Office. He was instrumental in recognition of IPO as 15th ISA and IPEA under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT). He also held additional charge of Head of Intellectual Property Training Institute (IPTI) at Nagpur, the institution responsible for providing training to the new Examiners at IPO.
Mr. Parmar is now working with LexOrbis’ IPAB Practice Group and guiding the team of patent agents and lawyers on strategies, arguments and documentations for handling of pre and post-grant oppositions, appeals and patent revocation actions. He is also guiding our Patent Prosecution Practice and bringing in his vast experience and hands-on approach in preparing effective replies to office actions, etc.
