Dr. Archana Thakur
Patent Associate, Techgrapher.com
Chennai, India

Dr. Archana Thakur is a synthetic chemist with Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) background. She received her Master’s degree in Chemistry from Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla. Her Doctoral work is in organometallic chemistry from Himachal Pradesh University under a major research project financially assisted by University Grants Commission. She also received the Women Scientists Fellowship in Intellectual Property Rights from Department of Science & Technology. She published 12 papers in national/ international journals and a book on Practical Engineering Chemistry. She has done some advanced courses from WIPO, Geneva on Patent Drafting, Software Licensing and IP Management. Her IPR skills include Patent search, Analytics, Landscaping, Patent Drafting, Claim mapping, etc. She is proficient in using Patent Databases Thomson Innovation, inPASS, USPTO, SIPO, espacenet, The Lens, Patentscope, etc. Her work experience includes more than seven years of research and teaching in chemistry.