INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, KHARAGPUR-

ARGHA SEN
Contact: (+91) 8620892385

Email:- arghasen19@iitkgp.ac.in / arghasen19@gmail.com

Address- C/E-19, Rabindra-Nagar Kolkata-700018

Education
July 2018 – June 2021 (pursuing)- Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law
LL.B. (Hons.) in Intellectual Property Rights (specializing in Patent Law, Copyright
Law, Trademark Law) , Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, West Bengal.
CGPA (till 4th Semester): 7.60

Projects concerning assimilation of landmark case analysis on Patent Law of India, U.S and
European Laws. Research and evaluation of Infringement in Copyright. Submission of a
Paper in Contributory Infringement, Moral Rights and Fair Use Doctrine in Copyright. Moot
Court Participation in Intra College and presenting novel arguments in the U.S Copyright
case of DANIEL SCHROCK v. LEARNING CURVE INTERNATIONAL, INC.
Trademark Analysis on Well Known Marks.

August 2013 – May 2017- Techno Intenational, New Town. B.Tech (Electrical
Engineering), West Bengal University of Technology Kolkata, West Bengal
CGPA: 8.40
I had a special interest in Control system, and used simulation tools like MATLAB to build
electronic circuits, I studied Electrical Machines, Power System and Power Electronics, and
also subjects like Electric Traction and Thermal Power engineering to name a few. Besides,
that I had also read Electronic subjects that were a part of my curriculum like Analog and
Digital Electronics, Electrical Measurement and basic subjects like Circuit Theory and Field
Theory. I undertook a research and a thesis submission on Rotor Position Sensor-Less
Control Scheme of Surface PM Synchronous Motor (SPSM), that was a conceptual
amalgamation of Power Electronics and Control theory.

2013- S.T Thomas’ Boys’ School, Kidderpore, Kolkata (Class-12) ISC (2013), Council
for the Indian School Certificate Examinations- 88%
2011- S.T Thomas’ Boys’ School, Kidderpore, Kolkata (Class-10) ICSE (2011), Council
for the Indian School Certificate Examinations
I was a school topper throughout, took active interest and participated in Inter- School
Debate and Elocution Contests. I was declared the best Quizzard in my school in 2010.

Legal Internships

February, March, April, 2020- AIRBUS, SE, R&D Team, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
• Performed Prior Art Searches including Novelty Search, Validity/Invalidity Search
Clearance Search Or Freedom-To- Operate Search;
• Patentability/Novelty assessment for the inventions from inventors,

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Technology/Company/Country wise Due Diligence, Geography based Freedom to operation

of products, Patent Invalidations, Key intelligence topics research and analysis, Competitor
patent watch, Technology Landscapes;
• Also Involved in preparing technology trend presentations to researches, discussions and
meetings with inventors,;
• Project concerning Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property, Intellectual Property
Rights in the wake of CoVid-19.

May, June, 2020- Remfry & Sagar, IP Law firm, Gurgaon, Haryana, India
• Licensing and Assignment agreements, Due Diligence and all other related activities;
• Conducted prior art searches of proposed inventions;
• Drafting of Electronic Patents;
• Novelty analysis giving patentability reports (opinion to the inventor);
• Evaluation of claims;
• Reply to first examination report (FER) in relation to patent applications;
• Technical paper review;
• Analyzing international search reports and opined on the conflicting prior art.

December, 2019- Anand & Anand, IP Law firm, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
• Response to First examination Report comprising of the technical and formal objections
in the proposed invention for six First Examination Reports;
• Summarizing of Controller’s objections, Applicant’s Arguments and Controller’s
Opinion;
• Design Search;
• Mapping Claims and providing Subject Matter objections with the Prior Art for an
invention;
• Providing substantial support for the claims of the three applications in the entire written
description of three patent specification;
• Research and writing an article with reference to case laws for Retrospective Application
of Law and its present position;
• Drafting an Advanced Hearing Submission to the Controller and claiming distinguishing
feature of individual claims with respect to cited prior arts and providing with comments
on the basis of it;
• Drafting a detailed analysis of the distinguishing features of an invention with the four
cited prior arts pointed out by the Controller in the Hearing Notice;
• Working on a critical invention, which raised an objection under Section 3(k) of the
Patents Act, 1970, relating to computer inventions and providing substantial support for it
from a number of Case Laws from EU, US and Indian Jurisdictions;
• A detailed report concerning weak trade mark, composite marks;
• An analysis of non-speaking order and absolute rejection based on notice, based on the
tenets of Principles of Natural Justice;
• Novelty Search of a mechanical invention based on keywords in Google Patents, Patsnap;
• Drafting an extension of a contract related to IP Licensing for two multinational
companies.

June-July 2019- Fox&Mandal, Advocates & Solicitors, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
• Provision to find if, a join consortium of two or more parties can come forward for a bid;
• To find enabling provision for financial supporter, a non party, who if possible can extend his

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hand to a bidder;
• Position of Non-signatory Third Parties in an Arbitration Proceeding and stand of an
aggrieved party;
• Finding provisions and ways to club more than one arbitration proceedings in a single
meeting between same parties under different contexts;
• Drafting a note on proposed arbitration;
• Dealt a case in relation to part payment and subsequent recovery of the whole amount;
traversing through various facets of Negotiable Instruments Act & Limitation Act;
• Drafting letters of negotiation of contract to procure items on behalf of a firm;
• Research on Winding up of a Company by a tribunal under Section 271 of the Companies
Act;
• Work on a change of the character and nature of a property under Rule- 5A of the West
Bengal Land Rules, 1965 and subsequently contesting the allegations and appeals by another
party;
• Drafting an entire application on winding up before the NCLT for an almost inoperative firm
under the Sections-271- 275 of the Company’s Act; Research on whether one can issue a
single notice for all the dishonored cheques or separately and whether one can file a single
proceeding for all the said dishonored cheques, under the Negotiable Instruments Act;
• Studying and charting out provisions for a reputed firm the elements of Corporate Social
Responsibility and under which grounds it can be accorded and through which activities it
can really achieve it under the Company’s Act.

May 2019- S.Majumdar, IP Law firm, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

• Filing and Prosecution of applications (including Attending to the technical objections raised
by foreign Patent offices).
• Filing and prosecuting National phase entry in all PCT designated states;
• Monitoring Patent Gazette (Journal);
• Searches & Opinions: Novelty Searches; Patentability, Invalidity and Infringement/freedom
to operate (FTO) searches;
• Understanding of various document submissions in patent report;
• Research analysis on section 3 and section 10 of the Indian Patents Act;
• Analysis for patentability of proposed inventions;
• Assisted attorneys and patent engineers in ongoing patent works.

Dec 2018 – Jan 2019- Kundalia and Associates in the chambers of Siddhartha Lahiri,
Senior Counsel in Calcutta High Court. Kolkata, West Bengal, India
• Assisted counsel in preparing brief for proceeding before High Court, District Court;
• Learned the process from filing to disposal of petition in Courts;
• Gathered basic knowledge of the court procedures and rules and attended proceedings of
Calcutta High Court and City Civil Court.

Legal Courses and Workshops

August,2020- Protecting Business Innovations via Patent by- The Hong Kong
University of Science and Technology - This course facilitated with an understanding,
to implement patents and the protection of invention and how they are useful in
protecting innovation as well as some of the limitations and costs of patents.
July-August,2020- Introduction to English Common Law by- University of London -
In this course there has been a learning outcome in terms of Constitutional Principles of

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the English Legal System, the Court System, Statutes, different case laws, the European
Union, European Convention on Human Rights and Human Rights Act and the most
important Brexit.
May-July,2020- DL-101 GENERAL COURSE ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY,
WIPO- Passed with Distinction with a grade of 97%.- This course build the concepts
and provides a more in-depth view of the fundamentals of IP law, and is considered as
indispensable to pursue more advanced courses of study on specific areas of IP law.
June, 2020- WIPO Summer School on Intellectual Property, Korea- The program
comprised of 30 selected professionals who were provided with lectures, case studies,
simulation exercises and group discussions on selected IP topics, with an orientation
towards the interface between IP and other disciplines.
May-June, 2020- PCT Distance Learning Course, WIPO INTRODUCTION TO THE
PATENT COOPERATION TREATY.
The course provides an introduction and general overview of the Patent Cooperation Treaty
(PCT), an international system that facilitates the acquisition of patents on a global scale.

April, 2020, 4 weeks of study - AI for Everyone, Coursera, Stanford University Grade
Achieved: 96.9%. “AI for Everyone” helped me to understand how to build a sustainable
AI strategy.

April 29, 2020 to May 08, 2020 – Assignment- Write up on Limits of expert testimony
under the Indian Evidence Act, ANAND & ANAND, NOIDA, India.
Mr. Pravin Anand has given the feedback: Very well written

January-March, 2020 - Patent Drafting for Beginners, coordinated by Dr. Feroz Ali, the
Chair Professor on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) at the Indian Institute of Technology
(IIT) Madras. NPTEL, IIT Madras, Tamil Nadu, India.
The course enabled me to inculcate patent drafting and draft patent specifications on my
own. The course covered the fundamental principles of patent drafting and discussed in
detail the concepts in patent law in the context of patent drafting. I have learned the
following:-
a) Understand the fundamental concepts in patent law in the context of patent drafting, and
b) Draft patent specifications either for their own inventions or for other inventors.

July-October, 2018- Patent Law for Engineers and Scientists; coordinated by Dr. Feroz
Ali, the Chair Professor on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) at the Indian Institute of
Technology (IIT) Madras. NPTEL, IIT Madras, Tamil Nadu, India.
This course gave an in-depth understanding of patent law to me. This course also helped me
to understand the fundamentals of patent law, know the requirements of patentability, learn
how to read and interpret patent specifications, analyze patent office procedures and court
cases and develop the basic understanding for drafting a patent specification.

August-September, 2019 - Patent Search for Engineers and Lawyers; coordinated by Dr.
M.Padmavati, Dean of Rajiv Gandhi School of IP Law, IIT Kharagpur & Prof. S. Matilal
(LLM, Case Western University Law School, U.S.A), IIT Kharagpur. NPTEL, IIT

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Kharagpur, West Bengal, India.

This course focused on developing skills to conduct patent search and analysis, develop
practical insights into specific types of patent search, enabled understanding on the techno-
legal aspects of patent search and analysis.

Work Experience-
Intellectual Property Associate (Consulting)- TIPMS Ltd. ( Hyderabad, Telangana)-
2017-18,
• Analyse scientific or technical documents, including previously granted patents, to assess
novelty and inventive step.
• Conduct Prior Art searches for patentability and non-infringement.
• Suggest modifications or extensions to the technical subject matter of concern.
• Drafting Patent applications.
• Drafting Response to Examination Reports and Office Actions from the Patent Offices of
India, USPTO, EPO or for any other jurisdiction.
• Conduct Trade Mark availability searches, filing Trade Mark applications, and trademark
prosecution at Indian Trade Marks Office.

Engineering Training-

August-September, 2016 – XESP (ISO 9001:2008 certified), Certification Course on

Software –Training, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
The training mainly focused on simulating various control system tools to implement
circuits in industries and themes of data analysis, visualization, modeling, and
programming.

June-July, 2016- Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Limited, under Ministry of
Defence, Government of India, Kolkata, WestBengal, India.

Practical knowledge and experience, visualized in a yard. Worked on PLCs, Automation

(SCADA) and Embedded Systems. A shipyard consisting of a large number of shops in
which various processes of building a ship are carried out.

• In Plate Preparation Shop, a plate is straightened, shot-blasted, painted and cut into
various desired shapes and sizes.
• In Modern Hull Shop, these plates are used to develop blocks/modules of various
dimensions, which when joined forms a ship.
• Ship Building Shop has the added facilities of plate and frame bending which are used in
various parts of the ship.
• There were two yards where ASWC (Anti Submarine Warfare Corvettes) were being
assembled in various stages of completion.
• Quality Assurance department performs various destructive and non-destructive tests are
done to check the quality of materials used, the quality of welders chosen, the quality of
welding done. The Central Planning department procures materials, checks how the
fittings on hull are planned, decides the time of completion of a particular job, strategizes
the coordination of all the activities involved in shipbuilding, etc. The ship after

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launching is brought to Fitting Outfit Jetty. Here it is fitted with electrical system,
machinery system and various other outfits that are necessary.
• Detailed Workshop Analysis of Mechanical and Electrical Shops.

December, 2015 – January, 2016 - Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation (CESC),

Kolkata, West Bengal, India
• Made reports on consumer data, and develop campaigns for improving online
presence and branding of the organization, which allowed me to attend meetings with
creative agencies, and consultants. Project focused on best case practices in CRM and
CRM analytics with ROI tracking. Also visited a power generation plant at CESC,
Southern Generating Station where the generation of electricity and efficacy of boiler
and smart grid operation were taught to me.
• Through this job experience, I was able to pick up a lot of skills, such as effective
communication, IT and analytical skills, and brush up on my professional business
writing skills, digital marketing and post sales customer services, the use of all digital
media platforms, ROI tracking in corporate advertisements and most importantly
operations management.

Achievements & Co-curricular Activities

• Member of Placement Committee (2018-19) of Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual
Property Law, IIT Kharagpur.
• Member of Organizing Committee of National Moot Court Competition organized by
Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law, IIT Kharagpur.
• Integral Part of Kshitij, Techno Management Fest of IIT Kharagpur.
• Received accolades in several debate and elocution competitions at school level.
• Research and analyzing current legal issues at pan global level.

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