Pratap is an IP Strategist and Patent researcher. He has expertise in dealing with Intellectual Property issues in relation to emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), 3D bioprinting and synthetic biology. He is currently a Postdoctoral fellow at TC Bernie School of Law, University of Queensland, Australia. Pratap pursued his PhD from the Centre for Law and Genetics, University of Tasmania, Australia where his research was focused on "Patenting issues related to Bioprinted tissues and Bioinks." In 2018, he was invited by Govt. of Japan to assist the Japanese Patent Office (JPO) in harmonizing Japanese Patent Law in relation to AI. In 2017, he completed his Master of Law (LLM) in Intellectual Property from the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Geneva and the Queensland University of Technology, Australia. He is the recipient of the prestigious International Fellowship offered by WIPO. He holds a Master's degree in Genomics from the Central University of Kerala, India and a Bachelor’s degree in Biotechnology, Microbiology, and Chemistry from Acharya Nagarjuna University, India. Pratap also holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Patent informatics from the Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR) at the CSIR Unit of Research and Development of Information Products (URDIP), India and worked as a Patent researcher in the same.
Journal Article: The impact of gene patent decision and the changing IP strategies of myriad genetics
Ajay Dara and Pratap Devarapalli (2023). The impact of gene patent decision and the changing IP strategies of myriad genetics. European Intellectual Property Review (9).
Journal Article: Last days of Disney’s rights on Mickey Mouse: isn’t the term of copyright too long?
Devarapalli, Pratap (2023). Last days of Disney’s rights on Mickey Mouse: isn’t the term of copyright too long?. Landslide, 15 (4).
Other Outputs: The copyright conundrum: Who owns content generated by AI?
Devarapalli, Pratap (2023, 05 15). The copyright conundrum: Who owns content generated by AI? UQ Law School News and Insights
Devarapalli, Pratap (2019). Patent inventorship and ownership issues on inventions developed by humans using artificial intelligence. Japan: Institute of Intellectual Property, Japan.
Metagenomics - A technological drift in bioremediation
Devarapalli, Pratap and Kumavath, Ranjith N. (2015). Metagenomics - A technological drift in bioremediation. Advances in bioremediation of wastewater and polluted soil. (pp. 73-91) edited by Naofumi Shiomi. Rijeka, Croatia: Intech Europe. doi: 10.5772/60749
Scientific Swift in Bioremediation: An Overview
Kumavath, Ranjith N. and Deverapalli, Pratap (2013). Scientific Swift in Bioremediation: An Overview. Applied Bioremediation - Active and Passive Approaches. (pp. 1-20) edited by Yogesh Patil and Prakash Rao. London, United Kingdom: InTech. doi: 10.5772/56409
The impact of gene patent decision and the changing IP strategies of myriad genetics
Ajay Dara and Pratap Devarapalli (2023). The impact of gene patent decision and the changing IP strategies of myriad genetics. European Intellectual Property Review (9).
Last days of Disney’s rights on Mickey Mouse: isn’t the term of copyright too long?
Devarapalli, Pratap (2023). Last days of Disney’s rights on Mickey Mouse: isn’t the term of copyright too long?. Landslide, 15 (4).
#Bestfeelings: #Beware! You May Be Hashtagging A Registered #Trademark!
Soni, Seema and Devarapalli, Pratap (2022). #Bestfeelings: #Beware! You May Be Hashtagging A Registered #Trademark!. ANU Journal of Law and Technology, 3 (2), 60-72.
Devarapalli, Pratap, Kumari, Pragati, Soni, Seema, Mishra, Vandana and Yadav, Saurabh (2022). Patent intelligence of RNA viruses: implications for combating emerging and re-emerging RNA virus based infectious diseases. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 219, 1208-1215. doi: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2022.08.169
Need of an International Framework for the Protection of Indigenous Knowledge: Whys and Wherefores
Devarapalli, Pratap and Soni, Seema (2021). Need of an International Framework for the Protection of Indigenous Knowledge: Whys and Wherefores. IPR Gorilla, 1-3.
A saga of intellectual property licensing: Investigating the credibility of 25 percent rule
Soni, Seema, Devarapalli, Pratap, Zieseniss, Jeanine and Atapattu, Nalinda (2020). A saga of intellectual property licensing: Investigating the credibility of 25 percent rule. Economics, Law and Policy, 3 (2), 79-91. doi: 10.22158/elp.v3n2p79
Design rights for start-ups: drawing a line of protection
Devarapalli, Pratap and Soni, Seema (2019). Design rights for start-ups: drawing a line of protection. International Journal of Innovation, 7 (2), 312-320. doi: 10.5585/iji.v7i2.332
Devarapalli, Pratap (2018). Machine learning to machine owning: redefining the copyright ownership from the perspective of Australian, US, UK and EU Law. European Intellectual Property Review, 40 (11).
Patenting Therapeutic Methods: Statutes and Strategies
Soni, Seema and Devarapalli, Pratap (2018). Patenting Therapeutic Methods: Statutes and Strategies. Journal of Commercial Biotechnology, 24 (2). doi: 10.5912/jcb845
Patenting bioinformatic inventions: global perspective
Devarapalli, Pratap, Deshpande, Nishad and Hirwani, Rajkumar (2018). Patenting bioinformatic inventions: global perspective. Journal of Commercial Biotechnology, 24 (2). doi: 10.5912/jcb831
Khan, Nazir M., Haseeb, Abdul, Ansari, Mohammad Y., Devarapalli, Pratap, Haynie, Sara and Haqqi, Tariq M. (2017). Dataset of effect of Wogonin, a natural flavonoid, on the viability and activation of NF-κB and MAPKs in IL-1β-stimulated human OA chondrocytes. Data in Brief, 12, 150-155. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2017.03.054
Khan, Nazir M., Haseeb, Abdul, Ansari, Mohammad Y., Devarapalli, Pratap, Haynie, Sara and Haqqi, Tariq M. (2017). Wogonin, a plant derived small molecule, exerts potent anti-inflammatory and chondroprotective effects through the activation of ROS/ERK/Nrf2 signaling pathways in human Osteoarthritis chondrocytes. Free Radical Biology and Medicine, 106, 288-301. doi: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2017.02.041
Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells: Inventors turning into competitors
Devarapalli, Pratap, Bhalke, Swapnil Laxman, Dharmadhikari, Neelam Sudhir, Mishra, Vandana, Mago, Neha, Deshpande, Nishad and Hirwani, Rajkumar (2017). Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells: Inventors turning into competitors. Journal of Commercial Biotechnology, 22 (4). doi: 10.5912/jcb756
Xylose utilization in ethanol production: a patent landscape
Devarapalli, Pratap, Deshpande, Nishad and Hirwani, Rajkumar R. (2016). Xylose utilization in ethanol production: a patent landscape. Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining, 10 (5), 534-541. doi: 10.1002/bbb.1664
Kumavath, Ranjith, Azad, Manan, Devarapalli, Pratap, Tiwari, Sandeep, Kar, Shreya, Barh, Debmalya, Azevedo, Vasco and Kumar, Alan Prem (2016). Novel aromatase inhibitors selection using induced fit docking and extra precision methods: potential clinical use in ER-alpha-positive breast cancer. Bioinformation, 12 (6), 324-331. doi: 10.6026/97320630012324
Devarapalli, Pratap, Kumavath, Ranjith N., Barh, Debmalya and Azevedo, Vasco (2014). The conserved mitochondrial gene distribution in relatives of Turritopsis nutricula, an immortal jellyfish. Bioinformation, 10 (9), 586-591. doi: 10.6026/97320630010586
In silico identification of novel candidate drug targets in Haemophilus influenzae Rd KW20
Kumavath, Ranjith, Prasad, Swaraj, Devarapalli, Pratap and Barh, Debmalya (2014). In silico identification of novel candidate drug targets in Haemophilus influenzae Rd KW20. International Journal of Genetics and Genomics, 2 (4), 62-67. doi: 10.11648/j.ijgg.20140204.13
Barh, Debmalya, Gupta, Krishnakant, Jain, Neha, Khatri, Gourav, León-Sicairos, Nidia, Canizalez-Roman, Adrian, Tiwari, Sandeep, Verma, Ankit, Rahangdale, Sachin, Shah Hassan, Syed, dos Santos, Anderson Rodrigues, Ali, Amjad, Guimarães, Luis Carlos, Thiago Jucá Ramos, Rommel, Devarapalli, Pratap, Barve, Neha, Bakhtiar, Marriam, Kumavath, Ranjith, Ghosh, Preetam, Miyoshi, Anderson, Silva, Artur, Kumar, Anil, Misra, Amarendra Narayan, Blum, Kenneth, Baumbach, Jan and Azevedo, Vasco (2013). Conserved host-pathogen PPIs. Globally conserved inter-species bacterial PPIs based conserved host-pathogen interactome derived novel target in C. pseudotuberculosis, C. diphtheriae, M. tuberculosis, C. ulcerans, Y. pestis, and E. coli targeted by Piper betel compounds. Integrative Biology, 5 (3), 495-509. doi: 10.1039/c2ib20206a
Kumavath, Ranjith N. and Pratap, D. (2012). Comparative network analysis of two-component signal transducing protein-protein interactions in Enterococcus faecalis sp. Journal of Proteomics and Bioinformatics, 5 (11), 270-278. doi: 10.4172/jpb.1000249
Artificial Intelligence: A Patent Race of Technological Giants
Devarapalli, Pratap , Bhalke, Swapnil , Dharmadhikari, Neelam , Tripathi, Vandana , Mago, Neha and Deshpande, Nishad (2015). Artificial Intelligence: A Patent Race of Technological Giants. 32nd National Convention, Conference on Patinformatics for Technological Competitive Intelligence and Licensing, Pune, India, 9 December 2015.
The copyright conundrum: Who owns content generated by AI?
Devarapalli, Pratap (2023, 05 15). The copyright conundrum: Who owns content generated by AI? UQ Law School News and Insights