Ramachandra Kulkarni has over 19 years’ experience in the IP industry. He is a Senior IPR Consultant at Tata Consultancy Services Limited. His areas of expertise include patent drafting and prosecution, litigation support services, patent searching & analytics relating to due diligence, freedom to operate and patentability searches, and industrial designs. At TCS, he is associated with IPnE Filing and Response Services Group and his responsibilities include engaging with inventing community and helping them mine and protect TCS IP.