Prof. Ganesh Hingmire is a renowned Intellectual Property
(IP) Enthusiast and a winner of two Consecutive National Intellectual Property Awards in
2015 & 2016 given by Ministry of Commerce, Gov. of India. He is the head of Intellectual
Property Right Council at Chamber India and also Mentor and IPR/GI advisor at Baramati
Incubation Centre and NIT Jalandhar, Punjab. He is Governor of Maharashtra nominated
Board Member for research at Savitribai Phule Pune University. He also holds a position
as a Council Member of the Deccan Education Society (DES).
Prof. Ganesh completed his LL.M. from UK after completing LL.B. from renowned ILS Law
College, Pune after his Science degree in Chemistry. He has also completed M.Phil.
(Economics) from University of Pune. He has completed several Professional Trainings
viz. Japan Patent Office, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, IIT Kanpur and NISCAIR. He
constantly supported various industries for their IPR registration and commercialization
since 2002. He is a visiting faculty to most prestigious academic institutions in India
and delivered more than 1200 sessions in different States including IITs and National
Law Schools.
He is the founder of Great Mission Group Consultancy which is dedicated towards
promotion and protection of IPR in the country. He is an ardent reader and passionate
writer with more than 250 published articles and numerous news articles in all majorly
circulated newspapers of Maharashtra and India. He has also authored five books
including Students Guide to IPR, International Economic Law, Intellectual Property
Rights, GI- Manankan in Marathi and English with its audio book, Out of these two books
were inaugurated by the Hon’ble Governor of Maharashtra at Raj Bhavan.
He has been interviewed by majority of the news channels in Maharashtra recognizing his
work and he has most efficiently utilized the platform to reach out to farmers and
aspirants and make them aware about Intellectual Property Rights. He has also started a
YouTube channel to widen his reach to make common man aware of GI and IPRs!
IIT Kharagpur invited him to chair the session and inaugurate the Patents and
Geographical Indications Drive program in 2016. His organization has signed Memorandum
of Understanding (MoUs) with many renowned institutions and Universities for academic
promotion of IPRs.
He has attended seven Ministerial Conferences of World Trade Organization (WTO) at
Cancun (2003), Hong Kong (2005), Geneva (2011), Indonesia (2013), Kenya (2015),
Argentina (2017), Geneva (2022) and Abu Dhabi (2024) and his many position papers on GI
issues and food securities have been published at WTO website. He chose to work in the
area of community IP Rights i.e., Geographical Indications and make it as a tool for
economic growth of India. He worked as an expert for international project called “A
Tale of G.I. in India” supported by European Union and Government of India. He has
worked for 93 GIs out of which 59 are registered. His contribution in registering
Agricultural G.I is almost 25% of total Agricultural G.I. registered in India. It is
because of his genuine efforts and relentless hard work; Maharashtra is at the top in
the list of Agricultural GIs in India. He continues his work with only one thing in mind
“Miles to Go before I Sleep”. Adv. Prof. Ganesh Hingmire has incalculable understanding
and experience in building a business out of an innovative concept as a trailblazer in
the field of Intellectual Property, particularly in the area of community IP Rights.
