About Malathi Lakshmikumaran

Malathi Lakshmikumaran serves as an Executive Director and heads the life sciences group at the IP division of LKS. She is a registered patent agent and has been actively engaged in the preparation, filing and prosecution of patent applications, both in India and abroad. She mainly works on pharmaceutical, chemical and biotechnological patent applications, and advises clients on plant variety protection and registration. She is actively involved in the area of biodiversity and traditional knowledge. Dr Malathi has successfully supervised several PhD students in the area of plant molecular biology, and has more than 100 publications to her credit in various international and Indian journals.