Not your regular corporate coffee break Ft Sam Zellner – Coffee + fun + lots of learnings
Wondering what’s Coffee Break with RJ (aka Rohit Jaswal)? GreyB has been running Coffee breaks with RJ for quite some time now and we’ve had the pleasure to meet some great personalities and [...]
Learn, Improve and Stay Thoughtful
The idea of learning from one another has been going on since the dawn of time. As humans, we evolved by learning from nature and each other. Our learning makes us who we are today, it builds our [...]
What is one thing we need to change in 2021?
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 [...]
This International Women’s day, let’s celebrate the women in IP
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 [...]
All those who started their career in GreyB got this email!
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, [...]
Am I smart? I could not answer a dumb question from a kid.
Here at GreyB, we love any and every form of content that makes us pause and ponder. In our busy schedules, such pieces of content – be it in the form of emails, articles, podcasts, videos – [...]
Why you should do things that make you uncomfortable?
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 [...]
How we manage to keep our teams high performing?
The truth can hurt. But you can either run from it or learn from it! You guessed it right, we are talking about feedback. With the end of the quarter a fortnight ago and the quarterly feedback in [...]
Understanding client’s needs can go a long way in achieving customer satisfaction
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
What we learned from attending a random meeting in San Francisco?
Here at GreyB, we, the editorial team, have an intense love for stories. We try to keep the storytelling animal inside us always at work – be it for sharing relevant strategies with the help of [...]
Working together: Have you unlocked the hidden potential of your team yet?
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 [...]
How GreyB Uses the “Investigative Approach” to Navigate IP Research
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 [...]
A Note on Workplace Relationships
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 [...]
A story that we want to share with everyone..
“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 [...]
Why We Cultivated a Culture of Evolutionary Thinking at GreyB?
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 [...]
GreyB Marathon Musings – How running a Marathon imparted lessons for life?
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 [...]
Let’s talk about Analytics
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 [...]
This is The secret to a successful career (Hint: it’s not just intelligence)
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 [...]
A glimpse of how we train and turn freshers into smart consultants inside GreyB
“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 [...]
Dear Patent Attorneys, Yes We Understand What Do You Want! Even if You Don’t Tell.
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 [...]
Problem Solving: How Reframing Problems Can Help Find Better Solutions?
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 [...]
Law of Averages: Why You Should Never Give up?
“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 [...]
The Real Reason Behind Incompetence at Workplace & How to Deal With It?
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 [...]
How We Strive To Set Ourselves Apart From The Rest?
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 [...]
Do we have Poets in the Patent Industry?
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 [...]
Do we tell our failure stories?
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 [...]
How we Experimented, Failed, Learned and Succeeded
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 [...]
What 5 Changes Law Fraternity Must Adopt Right Away for a Better 2017?
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 [...]
Can we generate inventions? Yes we can!
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 [...]
Learn to Make a Client Fall for Your Reports with Mahesh
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 [...]
Let’s Learn A Trick in MS Excel with Monika
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 [...]
A Preview of a Conversation that Happened inside GreyB
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 [...]
The Myth About Job – An Internal Email by Chakshu
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 [...]
Do not call yourself a Patent Searcher if You Cannot Solve this
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 [...]
How We Used Lateral Thinking To Generate Ideas
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 [...]
The New Version Of Flow Free
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 [...]
Revamped Rock-Scissor-Paper
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 [...]
A Weird Calculator With Only Four Buttons
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 [...]
Do You Know How We Think Internally?
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 [...]