About Us
Before Starting KnottyIP, we the founders worked with various organisations including publicly funded research labs, universities, startups and corporates for 2 decades. We have drafted and filed patents across domains such as biopharmaceuticals, biomedical devices, electronics, energy, battery technologies, biotechnology and the telecommunication industry and have been able to protect more than 500+ brands. Our cumulative experience of more than 15 years has taught us how to spot inventions, help enterprises and organizations plan for the future and develop strategies for thriving in the future.
We’ve been helping companies of all sizes to protect and nurture the IP to strive and thrive in the future.
We are a cohesive group of lawyers, patent agents, Regulatory and compliance professionals along with scientists and investment bankers.
We are here to provide inventive solutions to the problems faced by companies of all sizes to create, protect and nurture all forms of intellectual property. We do this by providing services such as Product and process Innovation, Invention Analytics, TRIZ, DFP (Design for patentability), IP Analytics, IP Strategy, IP Commercialization, Invention and Innovation Roadmap Consulting, and Scale up strategies to our clients.
Our clients are people and companies who want to identify commercially viable market relevant idea(s) from the bunch of ideas which are having strong IP potential that will take them ahead in their journey and maintain their marker relevance in terms of technology and products. Our clients are people who want to co-create ideas, find inventive and patentable solutions, so they are neither stuck in journey of their entrepreneurship by not getting infringed or by getting circumvented.
At KnottyIP we are committed to take care of the inventions with same passion as that of the inventors while providing high quality intellectual property services such as IP analytics, IP filing and Prosecution to provide IP strategies to help enterprises protect their inventions & innovation and bring their ideas, products, services closer to the markets by accelerating the value creation with the help of protecting the market relevant IP and creating the robust portfolios, thereby increasing value and investability.
The vision of our firm is to help our clients in ideating, and building robust inventions and future-proof innovation roadmaps and not mere improvements or minor changes. Our moon shot is, we want to be the catalyst which shall put India in the Top 10 of the most innovative countries list.
We are in the process of starting our journey with investments in companies. Currently, we are providing a soft-landing platform for companies working in the domains of healthcare, agriculture, sustainability and education in front of the investor.
Our Directors
Prasanna Bhagwan
Invention & Innovation Consultant
Ashutosh Prakash Prachand
Invention & Innovation Consultant
Ashutosh is a Registered Patent Agent and Invention consultant and awaiting Registered Technology Transfer Professional, and his primary practice areas include Patents and Industrial Designs. He has 9 years of experience handling patent matters, including spotting inventions, and drafting and prosecuting patents and designs. He advises clients on patent drafting & prosecution, IP strategy and commercialization. He also provides opinions on patentability, freedom to operate and IP Due Diligence. His technical expertise lies in handling inventions in Biotechnology, Biopharmaceuticals, Medical devices, Material Sciences, Mechanical and E&TC domains.
Ashutosh worked with India’s largest Technology and Business Incubation Center, Venture Center, where he closely worked with startups and enterprises developing market-relevant technologies to protect their IP and provided advisory on IP Protection, IP Prosecution and IP Management. Apart from this he has mentored and trained 60+ startups to identify inventions and protect those via IP tools. He was also responsible for establishing Innovation Management & Technology Transfer practices in the ecosystem. Ashutosh is trained in technical problem-solving using TRIZ for improving the inventiveness and non-obviousness of the inventions.
Name of our firm : The word “Knotty” came while reading a book named” Cracking Complexity: The Breakthrough Formula for Solving Just About Anything Fast by David Komlos & David Benjamin“. As an adjective, “knotty” typically refers to something that is complicated, difficult, or intricate, often involving many twists, turns, or tangles. For example, a “knotty problem” would refer to a complex or difficult issue that is challenging to solve. As a slang term, “knotty” can sometimes be used to describe something that is excellent, great, or cool.
Logo : Logo is inspired from systems thinking and theory of inventive problem solving given by Genrikh Altshuller, the method enables innovators to visualize the solution to a problem in the space and time dimension and allowing to have a glimpse into the future.
