About the speaker Tarun K. Bansal Tarun's work experience is a blend of Intellectual Property (IP) Research, R&D in Biotechnology Industry, and Software Engineering.

Prior to founding Sagacious Research, Tarun was working as a Manager in the IP division of a leading KPO firm. He was involved in dealing with the clients, managing the process and strategy of the following types of IP projects in various technical domains:

• Patent drafting
• Patent landscape analysis/ Patent Analytics
• Prior Art Searches (Validity, Novelty, FTO)
• Patent portfolio analysis
• IP due-diligence and licensing studies, and other IP projects.

He has also worked with CDRI in the Microbiology Department as a Research Associate to complete a project related to M.tb genome.

Apart from biotech, Tarun also has experience of working in Software Industry at Infosys Technologies Ltd. At Infosys, I was involved in design and development of various software tools for biotech and health care providers using J2EE.