Hari Subramaniam is the Founding and Managing Partner at Subramaniam & Associates, a leading IP boutique firm founded in 1998. He has been in practice for the last 41 years, specialising in all aspects of intellectual property laws. He is the President of The Asian Patent Attorneys Association (APAA), the biggest IP organization of Asia and Oceania. In the course of his career, he has filed, prosecuted, defended, opposed and/or enforced - directly or in a supervisory capacity - over 45,000 patent matters in India and abroad, relating to all areas of technology. He has played a key role in bringing the “product patent” regime into India and evolution of Patent Law in India. He has advised the Governments of India, Mauritius, Bangladesh, China and Nepal on their IP laws. He has been called upon several times as an expert witness before the Joint Parliamentary Committee for the amendment of IP laws in India and is the only non-judicial member of a committee appointed by the Delhi High Court to formulate and oversee rules relating litigation of IP cases before the Courts.