Understanding patent acts and rules are tedious and troublesome for most people. Yet for most stakeholders, be them research scholars, lawyers, innovators or people in R&D, the need and criticality to have a good understanding of the basics of patent strategy and practice can never be over-emphasized. The Sniffer Dog bridges this gap in knowledge using free-flowing storylines and criticality of situations in an easy to grasp light reading.During his 15 years of technical and IP career, Tarakranjan witnessed many struggles for technologists and industry professionals to understand or to misunderstand the "patent". This book offers situation based guidelines on what to do and what not to do in the patenting process.-LV Sastry, CTO Board Advisor & Mentor, Former Senior Business Leader at Global MNC's