MS Office: A Holy Congregation of Shortcuts for Patent Professionals
With Halloween coming around this week, we thought why not indulge in “Trick-O-Treat”, but the only trick here is that it’s gonna be “Treat-O-Treat” for you. On this spooky season, wanna lift your workplace spirits? Here are some nippy shortcuts that might help. Bake some five-spice Apple pie and bring it to office. Buy pumpkin […]
Rohit shares with his team how keeping people informed can save the day
Keep people on the same page. I am pretty sure you have heard some version of this advice where someone, at some point, be it your manager or mentor, told you how important it is to keep the stakeholders on the same page. But how often do we listen to them? I mean, at some point, […]
21 Patent Buying and Selling Strategies for Big and Small Companies
Patents, when used strategically, can take your business on the path of unshakable success. They can secure your business from corporate and legal hurdles, and help ensure a dependable revenue stream. While acquiring patents can help big companies to compete in a market, selling those patents can also help a startup or an SME make […]
Our Award-Winning Patent Search Tool, Catalyst, Eliminates Traditional IP Research Obstacles
Like trial transcripts, birth certificates, and property deeds, patents are supposed to be freely available to anyone interested in reading them. And officially, they are: patents are a matter of public record, available online for reference via the national patent offices where they’re stored. But for reasons we’ll detail below, for the vast majority of […]
How We Helped a Telecom PRB Director Design a Patent Organization and Analysis System Trained to Think Just Like Him
For big companies with active R&D departments, keeping track of the many thousands of individual patents that often make up their patent portfolios frequently represents a daunting task, the burden of which tends to fall on patent review boards, or PRBs. At a moment’s notice, corporate higher-ups expect PRBs to be able to provide them […]
Tail-end countries are ripe for untapped market opportunities – Is your company protecting inventions there?
Ask anybody who has ever even thought about filing a patent application for their invention: In which country would you want to protect it? Most likely, their answer would be the US, or China — besides their native country, probably. In fact, statistically, we have had these two countries floating as the top markets for […]
These are the traits we look for in a GreyBian
Good news alert! Some time back, we celebrated the induction of the 2019 batch in our organization. We welcomed the new batch of trainees, who passed the training with flying colors into our teams and live projects. A milestone, for both them and us. To announce this induction, Arindam, Group Manager of Operations sent an […]
Our investigative approach helped us find convincing evidence in the cited prior arts. Let me tell you how.
When it comes to prior art searches, among the huge list of resources and strategies explored and employed during the search, searchers generally tend to give a low priority to already cited patent references. Now, this approach is quite justifiable, as most search assignments come with a tight deadline, and why spend valuable time looking […]
5G Applications: A Host of Niches Ranging from Healthcare to Automotive
5G – Is it truly disruptive or just a few Mbps faster than the current network? After a while of bringing life to an idea that existed only in theory years ago, 5G is finally here! The advent of ubiquitous 5G, an evolution of wireless 4G LTE, has left the entire telecom world abuzz about […]
Why you should hire the Right People in your organization?
We are opening up our little secret to success before you all today. I believe Helen Keller said it the best: “Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.” You get the gist. We are all about teamwork. Reminds me of another quote by Carnegie. Allow me to quote it for […]
A Framework to Extract ROI from Your Patent Portfolio
Companies should invest their time and resources into developing a diverse patent portfolio as it can act as a vast resource of revenue as well as provide a competitive advantage. In fact, every company must have a patent portfolio as part of its business strategy. You must have heard some variation of this advice from […]
Search has no limits and this is how Rohit proved it
Last Friday, I got an email from our favorite Vikas (the guy who everyone keeps looking for). Over the email, he asked me to search for three documents. After seeing that email, I was like seriously? Do I have to find these documents? Okay! I thought — no problem! let me search this Monday morning, […]