S.S. Rana & Co. participated in 4th Annual Pharma Legal and Compliance Summit by Lex Witness in Mumbai on October 16, 2015 at The Leela.
The Summit is an excellent platform to get together and share the regulatory and legal developments and challenges in the pharmaceutical industry with Compliance being the key mandate of the Summit.
Discussions were held on ‘Unleashing the sciences of Trademarks & Copyright’, ‘M&A and FDI rides of the Indian pharma sector’, ‘An insight into the current patent scenario in India’ and ‘The regulatory sagas and the challenges within.’
Ms. Bhawna Sharma, Patent Agent at S. S. Rana & Co. was a panelist discussing ‘An insight into the current patent scenario in India’. The panel discussion included an overview of Patentability criteria, Patent enforcement, Compulsory licensing, Compliance protocol of the Indian Patents Act, Voluntary licensing- In Licensing/Out Licensing and Data exclusivity.
The conference was an overall success and saw active participation from pharma/bio pharma firms, IP and regulatory consultants, law firms and Patent Agents.