Adv. Anand Mahurkar is founder of AM Legal Associates. is a practicing lawyer who is an Engineer by his qualification. He pursued his Master's Degree from BITS, Pilani. He pursued his law degree from Savitribai Phule University of Pune. He is a registered Patent Agent of the Indian Patent Office and member of Bar Council of Maharashtra and Goa. He has overall experience of 17 years in industry, academic and legal domain. He was been working in Intellectual Property law domain for last 16 plus years. His practice area includes patent prosecution and litigation, commercial laws, cyber laws. He is one of very few practitioners who is actively involved in prosecution and litigation of IP, Cyber, and Commercial Laws. He has been instrumental in building IP portfolios of many companies

He works on the technology relating to mechanical, mechatronics, automation, robotics, medical devices, jewellery etc. He has experience of representing clients in more than 50 countries. He has been on advisory board of a number of Start-ups, SMEs, Colleges and Universities. He has conducted 100s of talks, workshops and lectures on IP, Patents, Legal aspects of business, Social Media and Cyber Safety, IP Infringements etc. He has been a resource person of several national level seminars, conferences. His is passionate train and add more and more individuals in the IP fraternity. He is a trainer at the RGNIIPM which is the IP Training institute of the Indian Patent Office.