On 18 February 2015, U.S. Chambers of Commerce’s Global Intellectual Property Centre organised a panel discussion – “Intellectual Property and Innovation – Unlimited Potential’– in New Delhi followed by another debate on 20 February in Mumbai.
The discussion also looked at the role played by the protection of innovation through intellectual property rights. The panelists on this discussion were:
1. Prof Meir Pugatch, author of GIPC International IP Index
2. Patrick Kilbride, Executive Director, International IP, GIPC
3. Yolynd Lobo, Director, Business Software Alliance
4. Amiee Aloi, Associate Vice President, International Affairs, PhRma
5. S K Murthy, Patent Counsel-India, Intel Technology
6. Pulak Bagchi, Senior Vice President (Legal & Regulatory Affairs), Star India
Gateway House’s Rajrishi Singhal acted as the moderator for these sessions.
Rajrishi Singhal is Senior Geoeconomics Fellow, Gateway House. He has been a senior business journalist, and Executive Editor, The Economic Times, and served as Head, Policy and Research, at a private sector bank, before shifting to consultancy and policy analysis. In his extensive journalistic career, he has covered areas such as, steel, coal, shipping, ports, petroleum, petrochemicals, textiles and corporate performance. He was the Gurukul Chevening Fellow at the London School of Economics (1997-1998), and the C. V. Starr Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania (2002). He has written at length on the Indian economy, banking and finance industry, and on numerous public policy issues. He also served on two government committees appointed to re-examine policy options in areas of financial services, such as pension sector reforms.