Meta Yage participates in panel discussion at IIT Madras
Chief IP Strategy Consultant Arjun Bala participated in a panel discussion at IIT Madras on 3rd October 2008. The co-panelists included eminent experts on IPR including B.S Iyer – Legal Counsel of Bosch, Feroz Ali Khader – Advocate, Anirban Mazumder – Lecturer in Law, and Chandrashekar Babu – Free/Open Source Software Technologist. Arjun Bala highlighted the link between patents and technology entrepreneurship, and made the research & student community aware of how to use patent information effectively for R&D.
For more information, see http://www.shaastra.org/2008/Events/LectureSeries
Meta Yage sponsors Global Patent Congress
Meta Yage IP Strategy Consulting was one of the sponsors of the Global Patent Congress, 2008 held on September 15 - 18, 2008 , at the Marriott Hotel, Copenhagen, Denmark. The theme of the event, was Extracting Intellectual Asset Value through Effective Portfolio Management, which is close to Meta Yage’s area of focus and expertise.
For more information, see http://www.patentcongress.com/ShowEvent.aspx?id=94994
Meta Yage has new CTO
Panduranga Yellambalse officially joined Meta Yage as CTO, starting August 2008. Panduranga has over 14 years of software product design and development experience with multinational firms, Avid Technology, 3Com and Mercury Computer Systems. At Avid Technology, Panduranga successfully tackled patent infringement issues. His addition to the team strengthens the technology expertise that we provide relating to Patent Prosecution and IP Strategy.
Branch office opened at Coimbatore
Meta Yage opened a branch office at the PSG-STEP, Coimbatore as of July 14th, 2008. The team in the new office primarily focus on patent search and analysis projects to supplement the team at the Bangalore office which works on Patent Prosecution and IP Strategy. Mr R.P Ramanathan, Senior Advocate and Trade Marks attorney was made in charge of the new office.
Seminar on IPR at PSG Tech, Coimbatore
Chief IP Strategy Consultant Arjun Bala and Head Legal, R.P. Ramanathan spoke at a seminar on IPR as part of a programme organized as part of the Technopreneur Promotion Programme (TePP) Outreach Centre (TUC) at PSG-STEP on the 28th, March, 2008. Arjun Bala spoke on Patents and Mr Ramanathan covered Trade Marks, Copyrights, Designs and Geographical Indications.
Patent search workshop
“Meta Yage conducted a Patent search workshop on 8th January, 2008 at C-DAC Hyderabad for an audience of 50 engineers to help them optimize their R&D efforts. The speakers included Ramachandra Kulkarni, Client Relationship Manager, Dr A.K Garg from DIT, and Arjun Bala. The presentations were by followed by practical sessions that included a demonstrative assignment and exercises for groups of participants.
Presentation on Leveraging patent data
Meta Yage made a presentation on “Leveraging patent data in the Aluminium Die Casting” at the symposium on Aluminium Die Casting conducted by the Aluminium Association of India, at Chennai on 29th September, 2006.