Dr. Mahendra Thakre
IP Vice President
VIATRIS (Mylan Laboratories Limited)
Personal Profile
Dr.
Mahendra Thakre is an in-house patent counsel working as Senior General
Manager, Global Intellectual Property - Legal at Mylan Laboratories
Limited based at Hyderabad (India). During over around 20 years of
industrial and academic experience in organizations like Dr. Reddy’s
Laboratories, and National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and
Research (NIPER), he has established an expertise in strategy for para
IV & generic opportunity in US in-line with Hatch-Waxman Act,
opposition, invalidity opinion preparation for blocking patents, IP
strategy, and patent litigation across geographies. He has strong
experience in pharmaceutical/ regulatory legislation, patents, in-bound
patent / technology licensing, policy analysis. He has deep interest in
IP Policy in developing countries and advise senior leadership team on
critical issues and policy developments. Dr. Thakre has expertise in the
pharmaceuticals domain and presently handling IP litigation, opposition
and IP policy in Mylan for India. He is also an eminent speaker in
various conferences and symposiums and is a visiting professor in number
of premier institutions in India. He has earned his Doctoral Degree
(PhD), Masters in Business Management, Masters in Pharmaceutical
Sciences, PG Diploma in Patents Law and a degree in Law (LLB).
