Having served as the first female president of the FICPI India, an advisory board member of the IAM’s first Women in Patents event and ranked among Managing IP’s Top 250 women in IP for nine consecutive years, Archana Shanker is regarded as a zealous patent practitioner. She has set new patent narratives in Indian IP jurisprudence while heading the patents and designs department at Anand and Anand.

Shanker – known for her unparalleled legal, scientific and technical acumen – is the go-to person for patent protection and enforcement, prosecution, pre-grant and post-grant oppositions, appeals, revocations, plant variety protection as she manages an extensive portfolio of patents.

A leading voice advocating the cause of women in IP, Shanker heads a team of lawyers-cum-scientists, engineers, biotechnologists, chemists and physicists – advising extensively in adversarial proceedings.

In 35-plus years of dedicated practice across industries from pharmaceuticals to life sciences, software, ICT, telecoms, mechanical, electronics and biodiversity, Shanker has earned a solid reputation not just in patents but in the larger IP sphere globally.