SAIPRIYA BALASUBRAMANIAN
Bangalore
Summary
Dynamic IP professional with ten years of experience in patent law and intellectual property management. Expertise in crafting patent strategies and conducting competitive landscape analyses across various industries, including life sciences and AI. Proven track record in patent drafting, prosecution, and managing IP portfolios for startups and global corporations. Registered Indian Patent & Trademark Agent with a strong commitment to driving business value through innovative IP strategies.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Founder
LEX IPCOMPASS
07.2024 - Current
- Prepared patent drafts for a leading telecommunication major in India as part of contract work in liaison with Tier-2 law firm.
- Extensive experience in preparing patent applications for cutting-edge telecommunications technologies.
- Portfolio includes innovations in telecom customer migration, network slicing frameworks, intelligent anomaly detection, and AI/ML-based data management for large-scale network operations.
- Drafted applications covering user engagement systems for digital platforms, featuring personalized interactions and dynamic, activity-driven responses.
- Gained short-term experience as a Legal Consultant with an NBFC, providing pre-litigation advice and developing strategic approaches to dispute resolution.
- Responsibilities included coordinating with external counsel, reviewing pleadings, assisting in case preparation, and drafting replies to legal notices as well as responses to regulatory queries.
- Helping startups with Patent searches, TM searches and filing and patent drafting, renewals and filing.
- Trademark filing and Prosecution till registration.
- Filing Copyright Registrations.
Senior Business Intelligence and IP Analyst
Rapid Alpha, Inc.
06.2023 - 06.2024
- Prepared Competitive Landscape Reports by analyzing competitors' future actions to gain deeper insights, monitoring recent developments in the respective market, and enhancing clients' targeting strategies.
- Developed competitive Landscape Analyses for in-house technologies of major oil and gas companies, Autonomous Vehicle companies, lithium extraction companies, and Genetic Engineering companies.
- Prepared Claim Charts for product alignment and specification mapping for legal clarity, strategic planning, and ensuring that products comply with the clients' patent strategies.
- Patent Mapping and Product Mapping of all the products owned by a company.
- Conducted Patentability searches and developed IP Plan as a road map for developing a strong patent portfolio of different clients.
- Conducted comprehensive patent landscape analyses for NanoString Technologies, focusing on their innovative product portfolio.
- Conducted in-depth searches across diverse oncology-related topics, focusing on cutting-edge research areas and innovative technologies.
- Worked with an in-house software Team to develop an AI-based Software Tool, EVOS, for performing automated patent landscape analysis and Competitor Landscape Analysis.
- Drafting of patent applications for various clients for filing at USPTO.
Senior Patent Attorney
ZACCO
11.2021 - 04.2023
- Trained in EP Prosecution and Drafting.
- Penned an international Article on 'Second Medical Use Patents in India' which was published in Zacco website.
- Conducted events for Zacco Region India employees as part of World IP Day.
- Liaised with EP attorneys for drafting, filing and prosecution patent portfolios in India.
Senior Patent Attorney heading Lifesciences
S&H Partners
11.2021 - 04.2022
- Worked on office action responses for EP, US and Indian Applications.
- Prepared responses to Office Actions/Examination reports for Zacco’s clients.
- Handled business critical projects such as, landscaping analysis, Patent Portfolio evaluation, and Annuity decisions.
- Interacted with Inventors for IDF analysis and Continued Prosecution cases.
- Mentored and reviewed deliverables of patent prosecution projects.
- Presented IDF’s to business leaders of various startups in patent review meetings.
- Harvesting of inventions of startups and MSMEs.
- Actively took up the role of business development in building Lifesciences Client Base for S&H Partners.
- Delivered IP talks in Universities, Incubation Centers and for Business Sweden.
- Signed MoU with 8 Atal Incubation Centres in a span of 5 months.
- Brought 5 startups who signed MoU with the company for IP Services.
- Hand held several startups regarding their queries on protection of their IPs.
- Drafted several complete specification for startups and filed the same with IPO, EP and US.
- Prepared and filed FERs, Written Submissions and attending hearing for clients.
- Preferred partner of ZACCO IP SERVICES
Associate Patent Agent
Singh & Associates
05.2019 - 10.2021
- Preparing responses for Indian examination reports.
- Complete application drafting.
- Provisional Application drafting.
- Proof reading of Patent Application.
- Searching and analyzing prior art in the fields of Electrical, electronics, mechanical, software, telecommunication and Biotechnology.
- Patentability search and FTO/Infringement Analysis.
- Expert in filing reply for FER as well as hearing Notices.
- Preparing forms for Indian filing: Form 1,23,4,5,6,9,13,18,18A,21,25,26,28,30 and obtaining certified copies of priority document.
- Attending business events.
Senior Research Associate
STEERLife
12.2017 - 01.2019
- Drafted & filed Patent specifications for novel formulations under various jurisdictions.
- Patent landscape reports for clients to enable business decisions on drug APIs, formulations, platform technologies and generic products.
- White space analysis to improve existing inhouse drug APIs and enable patent generation.
- Preparing forms for US Filing: Assignment deed, US declaration and Power of Attorney.
- Patent prosecution support for applications in US, Europe, India, Japan, China, Australia, Korea and south Africa.
- Preparation of clearance search reports, infringement and patentability opinions for APIs in pipeline and inhouse technologies.
- Maintenance & Tracking of Patent & Trademark prosecution records.
- Trademark searches and Trademark applications.
Patent Associate
Singh and Associates
11.2012 - 09.2017
- Infringement searches for efficiently locating information on the database through specialized searches.
- Analyzed, drafted and filed patents under a range of technologies such as molecular technology, genetic engineering and methods, nanotechnology, materials science, surgical/medical devices and methods, biomedical instruments used for 3D and 4D imaging, mechanical devices, Software inventions etc.
- Responsible for writing, proof-reading and or editing claim charts and infringement reports.
- Qualitative analysis of Patents and Patents Portfolios to identify potential research opportunities.
- Interacted with scientists in performing prior art searches for patent applications in healthcare domain.
- Periodic liaison with Indian Patent Office for filing of Patent Applications, Payment of Annuities, Submission of working statements and relevant forms.
- Due diligence of patent applications and proof reading of patents and filing of PCT and Indian Patent Applications.
- Handled client queries on Patent Prosecution laws.
- Contributed to company newsletter by authoring research articles on IP current affairs – published in Mondaq.com.
Patent Consultant
06.2012 - 10.2012
- Performed Patentability Analysis as well as Prior Art Searches for startups in order to pursue their inventions.
Patent Associate
Ripple IP Services
11.2011 - 06.2012
- Conducting Novelty, Patentability searches, Freedom to operate/ Clearance searches, Validity and invalidity searches in mechanical, wind Turbine Technology, Aerospace Engineering Technology and life sciences domain.
- Conducting Landscape Analysis; Conducting Patent Family Watch searches.
- Defensive Publication drafting (more than 80 publications); Proof reading of patents, Filing PCT and Indian Patent applications.
- Trade Mark Clearance Searches; Trade Mark Monthly Watch.
Education
LLB -
Karnataka State Law University
Karnataka06-2025
M.Sc. - Bioinformatics
Kongunadu College of Arts & Science
Coimbatore06.2009
B.Sc. - Biochemistry
Karpagam College of Arts & Science
Coimbatore06.2006
Skills
- Filing and Prosecution of PCT and Indian Applications
- Patent drafting
- Competitive analysis
- Drafting applications for filing at USPTO
- IP strategy development
- Claim charting
- Competitive Business Landscape Reports
- Identifying target market/companies for cross-licensing
- Trained in EP Prosecution and Drafting
- Conducting Novelty & Patentability Searches
- Patent Family Watch Searches
- Defensive Publication Drafting
- Preparation of Responses to FERs
- Opinion on validity & Enforcement of Patents
- Claim Analysis
- Freedom-to-Operate & Infringement analysis
- Patent Opposition searches
- Maintenance of Patents
- Patent invalidity searches
- IP Due diligence
Certification
- WIPO’s certification course on Intellectual Property (DL-101)
- Patent Law for Scientists & Engineers – Certified with Elite grade from IIT Madras
- Patent drafting for beginners – Certified with Elite Grade from IIT Madras
Personal Information
- Date of Birth: 12/09/85
- Marital Status: Married
Timeline
Founder
LEX IPCOMPASS
07.2024 - Current
Senior Business Intelligence and IP Analyst
Rapid Alpha, Inc.
06.2023 - 06.2024
Senior Patent Attorney
ZACCO
11.2021 - 04.2023
Senior Patent Attorney heading Lifesciences
S&H Partners
11.2021 - 04.2022
Associate Patent Agent
Singh & Associates
05.2019 - 10.2021
Senior Research Associate
STEERLife
12.2017 - 01.2019
Patent Associate
Singh and Associates
11.2012 - 09.2017
Patent Consultant
06.2012 - 10.2012
Patent Associate
Ripple IP Services
11.2011 - 06.2012
LLB -
Karnataka State Law University
M.Sc. - Bioinformatics
Kongunadu College of Arts & Science
B.Sc. - Biochemistry
Karpagam College of Arts & Science