Patent Assistant
BSc and MSc Life Sciences, University of Mumbai, India
MS Food Science and Technology, Texas A&M University, USA
MSc Management of Intellectual Property, Queen Mary University, UK
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Asawari has a broad academic background in life sciences, biochemistry and food science. She works in the Life Sciences and Chemistry team where she supports clients in a range of technology areas including precision medicine, gene therapy, bioinformatics, medical devices and diagnostics.
Prior to joining Keltie in 2022, Asawari worked in the patent litigation team of a leading City law firm for over six years where she worked on contentious matters within the pharmaceutical and biotech space. She also has experience working in a technology transfer office for three years where she enjoyed interacting with academic inventors and understanding the role of IP in the commercialisation of research.
Before moving to the UK, Asawari worked in a DNA sequencing laboratory in Seattle for around three years.
21.08.2024
Selection inventions in life sciences at the EPOThe EPO practice on selection inventions has developed considerably over the past decade. Two recent decisions of the Technical Board of Appeal are particularly instructive for applicants in the life sciences field. The Guidelines for Examination in the EPO (EPC Guidelines) define selection inventions as those that “deal with the selection of individual elements, subsets, or sub-ranges from a more generic disclosure in the prior art”. The Guidelines address the examination of both novelty and inventive step of selection inventions.
06.08.2024
CRISPR patent battle updateLast year, we published an article looking at some of the IP issues raised by CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology. One of these issues concerned the battles over the ownership of certain fundamental patents.
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