Vikrant Rana: IAM Strategy 300 2026

IAM has listed Vikrant Rana, Managing Partner of S.S. Rana & Co., in IAM Strategy 300: The World’s Leading IP Strategists 2026. His profile covers IP management consultancy, licensing, technology transfer and valuation, along with defensive patent aggregation and legal work, placing him among the practitioners worldwide whom IAM identifies for building and executing strategies that increase the value of IP portfolios.

About the IAM Strategy 300

IAM is a specialist publication on IP as a business asset. Its Strategy 300, published every year since 2009, looks beyond legal skill alone to the people who shape how IP is created, managed and turned into value, whether they work in private practice, inside companies, in consultancies or at research institutions and universities.

Who qualifies. Candidates are put forward through confidential online nominations. IAM does not accept self-nominations or nominations from colleagues, and a candidate must be nominated by at least three people from outside their own organisation.

How individuals are chosen. IAM’s research team vets every nominee through its own research, including conversations with senior corporate IP managers and IP service providers. IAM states that most nominees do not make it through this process.

The format. The guide is a list of individuals, not a tiered table. Each listed individual chooses their areas of expertise from a set of categories, which IAM describes as a guide to what each person does.

What the listing covers

Vikrant Rana’s IAM Strategy 300 profile lists the following areas. In practice, each covers work of this kind:

IP management consultancy. Advising businesses on how to structure, maintain and prune IP portfolios so that protection follows commercial priorities, from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies with portfolios across several jurisdictions.

Licensing. Structuring and negotiating licences of patents, trademarks, designs and copyright, including royalty terms and the regulatory requirements that apply to IP licensing in India.

Technology transfer. Moving technology from universities, research institutions and innovators to industry, an area tied to the firm’s work with technical universities, design institutes and government and private institutions.

Valuation. Assessing what IP is worth for transactions, investment, licensing and due diligence.

Defensive patent aggregation and legal. Building patent positions that protect a business against assertion, and the legal work that supports IP strategy, from freedom to operate analysis to infringement proceedings before Indian courts and tribunals.

In its commentary, IAM credits him with decades of work helping clients from Fortune 500 companies to grassroots innovators build, protect and enforce valuable brands, and says his combination of contentious and advisory expertise and commitment to innovation has made him a prominent voice in Indian IP.

About Vikrant Rana

Vikrant Rana leads S.S. Rana & Co., a full-service IP and corporate law firm founded in 1989 and headquartered in New Delhi, with branch offices in Chennai, Mumbai, Bangalore and Kolkata. He is a registered patent agent and an Advocate on Record with the Supreme Court of India.

Patent and IP practice. His work spans patent prosecution, examination strategy, opposition, post-grant proceedings, enforcement and multi-jurisdictional litigation, as well as building patent portfolios and freedom to operate analysis.

Start-ups and innovators. Since 2016, he has been an IP facilitator under the Government of India’s Start-ups Intellectual Property Protection (SIPP) scheme, and has guided more than 350 start-ups and grassroots innovators in securing and enforcing their IP rights in India and abroad.

Teaching and writing. He holds appointments as Professor of Practice at several Indian universities, is a regular speaker at IP conferences and government seminars, and has written book chapters and journal articles.

Domain name disputes. He is empanelled as an arbitrator with the National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI) for disputes under the .IN Dispute Resolution Policy.

Continued recognition

See his IAM Strategy 300 profile and IAM’s Strategy 300 methodology. His IAM Global Leaders 2026 and Chambers Asia-Pacific recognitions have their own pages, and every recognition is recorded on our Awards page.

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Closing

We congratulate Vikrant on this recognition and thank our clients, colleagues and peers in India and abroad, including those who took the time to nominate him, for their continued trust.

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