Ramani V Marakani has 15 years of experience in patent preparation and prosecution. She was working as a Senior Director with Clairvolex Knowledge Process Pvt. Ltd. She was mentoring patent engineers and supervising the patent development team in Bangalore to ensure high quality of patent applications. Prior to this she was a Director at Intellectual Ventures. In this role, she was responsible working with inventors from prominent Indian universities in the areas of material science, polymer chemistry and other related chemical sciences. She was as an Associate with Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner, Minneapolis prior to IV. She held the positions of an IP Counsel with Philips Electronics India Ltd., and a Lead Scientist with John F Welch Technology Centre, Bangalore. Before moving to IP and R&D, she was an Assistant Professor at one of the engineering colleges in Bangalore. She received her B. Tech and M.Tech in Chemical Engineering from Osmania University, Hyderabad. She received her PhD from IISc, Bangalore. She received her JD and LLM from the then Franklin Pierce Law Centre (now University of New Hampshire School of Law).