Bindu Sharma is an Advocate with extensive experience in IP laws across a range of technologies and industries in India and abroad. She enjoys working with innovative organizations and inventors and guides them in protecting their intellectual property in the most effective manner. She has worked with clients locally, nationally and internationally in many industries and technologies. She advises clients on the issues related to Patents, Patent Validity, Infringement, Licensing and Monetization as well as IP Management, IP Strategies, Licensing, Trademark, Copyright and Design/Utility patent matters. She has extensive experience as a patent lawyer appearing in Appellate board and High Courts in patent infringement cases.

She has written several articles, authored books and has been speaker in more than 100 national and international conferences, academic institutions and corporates. She recently was recognized as one of top 100 women in law by WIPF.

Under Bindu’s vision, within 3 years of its incorporation, Origiin was selected as finalist in the ET Now awards for Leaders of Tomorrow 2013. In the year 2014, she received “Emerging Women Entrepreneur of the Year 2014” award under Legal Services Sector by Brands Academy. Subsequently, Origiin was chosen as “Company of the year 2014 – Patents” by Silicon India. Articles written by her are periodically published in various magazines such as, Dataquest, Smart Techie, Pharmabiz and Silicon India etc. Under her guidance, Origiin has achieved a tremendous growth and has established a substantial client base. Origiin also has an online education institute Origiin IP Academy, that provides training on various skills in IPR such as Patent Search, Patent Specification Drafting, IP Valuation etc. Origiin IP Academy has tied up with some of India’s reputed Universities and Institutions such as Anna University, IIT Guwahati to provide trainings and certification.

Bindu received her Law degree from Bangalore University and Post Graduate degree in from University of Horticulture and Forestry, Solan (Himachal Pradesh) with Distinction. She is a registered Patent Agent with Indian Patent Office to practice as a Patent Agent and is also enrolled as an Advocate with Karnataka State Bar Council and Bar Council of India. She received a Post Graduate Diploma in IPRL from National Law School of India University, Bangalore and completed General Course in Intellectual Property Rights from World Intellectual Property Organization Worldwide Academy.

Before founding Origiin, Bindu had over 8 years of experience working with premium institutes in India such as National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources (New Delhi), Indian Institute of Science (Bangalore) and Jubilant Biosys Pvt Ltd (Bangalore). She has presented many papers in symposium/conferences and has published papers in reputed journals.

There are a couple of books authored by Bindu Sharma namely;

Dictionary on Indian Patent Law

Handbook on IPR

Basics of Patent Search

25 Myths about Patents – demystified

All you want to know about PATENTS

Minimising risk of PATENT INFRINGEMENT

Handbook on IPR

Using PATENTS to reduce R&D efforts.

Bindu and her team have also provided training to a large number of major corporates in the form of IP awareness sessions and seminars etc.