Ritu is a leading Indian patent attorney, with a combined research and practical experience of over 18 years. She has a doctoral degree in biotechnology and is one of the most experienced patent attorneys in the country in the areas of biotechnology and biochemistry. Ritu has worked as a scientist and training coordinator in intellectual property rights matters for the Patent Facilitating Centre, Department of Science & Technology, Government of India. She has also worked with US based law firm Lexadigm.

Ritu’s main areas of expertise are drafting patent specifications, prosecution, oppositions, revocations, providing infringement and invalidity opinions, patent searching and appearing in oral proceedings before the Intellectual Property Office and Appellate Board in respect of appeals and contentious matters. She is also an expert on plant variety protection and geographical indications. In addition, Ritu is head of our foreign filings department, and manages and supervises the filing and prosecution of our domestic clients' patent applications overseas. She also assists senior counsels and lawyers at various High Courts in the country as a scientific advisor for landmark patent infringement matters.

Armed with a master’s degree in biotechnology and very strong academic credentials with her undergraduate degree in biotechnology, zoology and chemistry (with physics as an additional subject), Aaysu now has 13 years of experience in the practise of intellectual property laws. Aaysu was involved in research projects in the field of molecular biology at highly esteemed technological and scientific institutes, such as the Bhabha Atomic Research Institute, Mumbai, and the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi.

Aaysu's main areas of expertise are the drafting and prosecution of patent applications in India, filing of PCT international applications, Indian national phase entries and their prosecution, patent searching, drafting and filing oppositions relating to patents and assisting senior counsels and lawyers at the High Court as briefing counsel and scientific advisor for contentious matters. Aaysu manages the rather large portfolios of many of our major clients and supervises and oversees the prosecution of Indian patent applications. She also regularly appears in oral proceedings for prosecution and opposition matters and routinely drafts and prepares full case briefs for senior counsels and advocates.

Ashish has gained over 14 years of experience in law subsequent to obtaining a degree in business management, a degree in E‐commerce, a master’s degree in science (focused on physics and chemistry) and a master’s degree in applied chemistry. Ashish has considerable experience in drafting patent specifications relating to various subject matters. He handles and prosecutes a wide spectrum of patent cases, including electricals, electronics, automobiles, machines and machine tools, mining, landscaping and validation studies.

Ashish has also successfully prepared and prosecuted various designs and trademark matters. He routinely appears before the Intellectual Property Office for oral proceedings. Prior to commencing his practice at SNA, Ashish worked for TATA Motors Ltd., a leading Indian automobile manufacturer, bringing the benefit of industry experience to the firm.