Culture

Jim, a Patent attorney, with years of experience in litigation, asked during a handshake meeting with my team — “what do you suck at?”.  In a confident voice, I said, turnaround time. It is [...]

That gets us to to the end of our list(for the sake of brevity), but there are so many more amazing women out there doing great work, and each of them inspires people around them in their own [...]

As professionals, we are often unwary of how time passes. In the midst of projects, client communications, meeting goals and KPIs,  and chasing our zenith, we somewhere grow old. Years later, [...]

The internet is full of quotes and anecdotes that push you to get out of your comfort zone and do that thing that you wanted to do (but lack motivation) and needs to be done. Sure, they give you [...]

Try to understand what the client NEEDS, not just what he WANTS and you could win a client for life. We have all heard a variant of the sentence above somewhere, but most of the time we’re so [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

We have shared a lot of success stories (and failure stories too) in the past along with the strategies we used in projects, but rarely have we ever covered what goes behind the scenes. In this [...]

Around the world, the system of patents that governs new ideas and technology can seem practically designed to mislead people, making them think that they can see the field clearly when in fact [...]

Do we really enjoy the company of our colleagues? – As soon as I finished reading this email (copied below) by Rajesh, I had but one question in mind, which has never left me ever since. If it [...]

“I don’t want to give a report with zero results to the client.” It was a beautiful, cold October morning. I was sitting at my desk sipping my latte when I received a mail in my [...]

Thinking like a historian can transform the way how research can be performed on patents. As a historian studies the history and tries to connect different events to understand the cause behind [...]

Adrenaline rushing through the bloodstream. Quickened heart rate. Sweat dripping down the brow. A sharp pain shoots in the calves. The thought of giving up flashes across the brain. Legs slow [...]

  I think if we talk about analytics it can be divided into 3 basic components: 1. What are the key insights? 2. Which insights are actionable? 3. How can I explain the actionable insights [...]

It’s that time of the year again! (Read: Feedback) As another quarter of the year comes to a close, it’s time to reflect and learn from experiences – which might include those little [...]

“Don’t find customers for your products, find products for your customers”. – Seth Godin. Tell me one thing – Would you buy the product you are selling to your customer if the positions get [...]

At the end of the day, how well do we know our customers, is something that does matter. And, it feels awesome that yeah we do understand people we work for. The last week of August turned out to [...]

Human brains have a tendency to react to problems in different ways. Whenever faced with one, our brain triggers either a Fright, Fight or Flight reaction, which means we either get immediately [...]

“I don’t think there exists a solution for the problem” Whether you’re a researcher, an analyst, an attorney, an engineer, or anyone that requires a lot of analytical thinking in their [...]

Incompetence is a major problem in the workplace which brings along with it, its own set of consequences.   Other than serving as a hindrance to achieving goals in the set time frame, repetitive [...]

Ever seen a vending machine? I bet you did unless you’re an alien from another planet who is visiting earth or have time traveled to the future from the 1850s. There is one in a billion chances [...]

Someone once said , “At the Intersection of two different realms, you can create something beautiful”. Though we had known this for long, we never quite understood the essence of this [...]

Have you ever heard failure stories? Chances are, you didn’t, as we all are a part of a culture where we proudly flaunt our successes, yet face difficulty when it comes to admitting [...]

We human beings are unique creatures. Gifted with the capability to retain experiences and sharing them with fellow human beings indeed sets us apart from the entire animal race. We, the human [...]

It’s the end of a year and beginning of another. As mother earth completed a progression around the sun and sprung towards another, somewhere amidst the duration (Read Holiday season), we all had [...]

The team at GreyB is a mix of thinkers and doers. We carry the streak of innovation in our DNA and strive to improve processes by effective implementation of current technologies. Our innovative [...]

Last time we shared how Monika helped everyone learn a trick on Excel, this time Mahesh from the Search Team who prepares a lot of deliverables conducted the next activity. His objective was to [...]

Learning in GreyB is a perpetual process. Everyone make sure that his/her colleague or junior should possess the best knowledge of the domain. Here in GreyB, we have multiple teams with their own [...]

There are two kinds of people in the world- first, who do their jobs just for the sake of doing it. And second are the ones who take pride in their work and carry an attitude to deliver [...]

Do you know why you find your job boring? No? Well, read the below email sent by Chakshu Kalra, Director GreyB, to GreyBians. Not only the email tells you why you find a job boring, it also [...]

We here at GreyB focus on improving our skill set with daily activities. We have a culture of 10 min activity where one person in the company conducts one activity every day. These activities are [...]

I am a Group Manager at GreyB and responsible for managing all the work related to Patent Research. My role highly demands idea generation and new alternatives at various levels of project [...]

I hope you must’ve played the game “Flow free” on android. Not to panic, in case you haven’t. The Rules of the game are: Connect the dots. Simply draw a line from one dot to the other of the same [...]

Many of you might have settled few spats by playing “Rock-Scissors-Paper” game. Well, today we are going to do somewhat the same thing. Before beginning, let me first give you a quick brush-up [...]

Imagine if you own a weird calculator with only 4 buttons, which perform the following 4 operations: ×3 +7 -11 ÷2. Your challenge is increment the numbers below by pushing only a certain number [...]

At GreyB, We are very proud of how we perform the invalidity search internally and at the same time very vocal about our attitude of ‘If it exists we are going to find it’. There is a lot of work [...]