Ms. Sindhu Pillai is a Senior Associate at Krishna and Saurastri Associates LLP. She focuses on drafting and prosecution of patents, conducting prior art, FTO and landscaping searches in the chemistry and life sciences field. Before joining the firm, she worked as and was trained in analytics including prior art search, patent and technology analysis, competitive intelligence - competitor / industry technology profiling, tracking patent-to-products and market surveillance. Even prior to that, she worked in pharmaceutical regulatory affairs and QA/QC in leading Indian pharmaceutical companies. She holds a Master's Degree in MSC (Organic Chemistry) from Fergusson College, Pune.