Harit Mohan is Founder & CEO of Signicent LLP. Signicent deals in the area of technology, IPR (patents, trademarks and copyrights) and market research. As an IIT- Madras 2008 post graduate, research and technology has always been close to his heart. He has also done course on ‘Entrepreneurship– launching an innovative business’ from University of Maryland College Park. He has given 12 years of his career solving problems and overcoming hurdles faced by research companies and institutes. He, with his company, has been a technology and IPR consultant to over 400+ businesses globally spread across 15 countries. Harit was elected as President of TiE Chandigarh for the year 2023-2024. He has been honored with the “40 Under 40” recognition by the Times Group for his remarkable achievements and outstanding success. He was announced as World’s Leading IP Strategists 2022 by the IAM Strategy300. Harit has delivered his TEDx (Kanniyakumari) talk in 2021. He has been a torchbearer for promoting Innovation & IP in India with MHRD (Govt. of India), Cell for IPR Promotion and Management (CIPAM), Department of Science and Technology (DST)- Govt. of Rajasthan, Atal Innovation Mission (AIM)- NITI Aayog, All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), TiE Chandigarh, National Research Development Corporation (NRDC), Delhi and Institution Innovation Council (IIC) at IIT Ropar. At the global stage, he is a member of PIUG & Licensing Executive Society (LES), USA.
Peter Felder is registered as a European Patent Attorney and admitted to practice before the Swiss and the European Patent Office. His activities particularly comprise developing and implementing client-specific patent strategies and consultancy concerning technology transfer. His technical expertise primarily covers chemistry, materials technology and analytics, but also medicine, pharmaceutics and medical device technology. Peter Felder is a lecturer at the University of Zurich, where he has a teaching appointment at the faculty of science on protection of intellectual property in physics, chemistry and biology. He is also involved as lecturer in short courses at the Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI) in Lugano.
John L. Haller was a San Diego patent attorney at Gordon & Rees and co-leader of the firm’s patent practice group. With more than 38 years of experience, Mr. Haller’s intellectual property practice focused on prosecution, counseling, and litigation for patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secret matters. Mr. Haller had been a registered patent attorney since 1975. With a Masters Degree in Physics, Mr. Haller was uniquely positioned to understand and apply this technological understanding to the patent prosecution and litigation process. Mr. Haller practiced IP litigation across the United States. In addition to his specific expertise in patent law, Mr. Haller had extensive experience in all aspects of intellectual property law, including, copyright law, trademark law and related trade secret and unfair competition laws. Mr. Haller’s experience in these areas similarly extended to prosecution, counseling, licensing and litigation. Prior to joining Gordon & Rees, Mr. Haller was a partner with the firm of Brown, Martin, Haller & McClain, San Diego’s first intellectual property firm. In addition, he was an adjunct professor of Intellectual Property at California Western School of Law in San Diego and was a visiting co-instructor in Intellectual Property at University of California, San Diego. Mr. Haller was the first president of the Science & Engineering Dean’s Advisory Committee for San Diego State University. Mr. Haller was selected to serve a three-year term as a Lawyer Representative for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. His duties included participation in the annual Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference and the annual District Conference of the Southern District. Mr. Haller also participated as a member of the committee to revise the local patent rules for the Southern District of California.