Ritika Ahuja

Ritika Ahuja is a Partner at Anand and Anand in Noida. With an experience of 19 years in IP, as a Registered Patent Agent and an Advocate, she specialises in the field of patent prosecution, patent drafting and patent infringement analysis in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) domain including software, artificial intelligence, Machine learning, medical equipments domain. She provides legal opinions on various aspects such as infringement, validity and strength of patents, patentability and prior art searches/FTO searches.

She manages the patent drafting team in the ICT and mechanical stream, in-house and outsourced and deals with inventors, companies, startups/incubators on routine basis. She has been regularly invited to deliver IP awareness sessions/lectures before multiple forums, primarily the Medtech division of IIT Chennai, for encouraging their collaborating startups and incubators to file more and more patents, and before few universities and legal coaching institutions.

She has been regularly appearing before the Indian Patent Office, as a Registered Patent Agent since 2007 and recently before the High Court as an Advocate respectively. She is adept at handling voluminous patent portfolios of top Telecom giants sitting abroad. The hyperactive ICT segment keeps her engaged in practicing the firm’s unpatented but effective strategy of “smart prosecution”.