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IP Solutions | Patent Portfolio Strategist | Patent Monetisation Consultant

About

Over the last 14+ years, I have assisted many law firms, companies, and experts at different levels. Apart from the expertise in computer science, I am also familiar with numerous other technologies, e.g. automobiles, wireless standards, printers, drones, etc. While working on different projects, catering to varied requirements, I have collaboratively worked with C-level executives, patent engineers, inventors, IP counsel, and lawyers located globally. Working with a wide variety of people from different cultures and backgrounds has helped me build a better understanding of effectively working across geographies and with multiple stakeholders. I have held multiple positions in the IP service industry. Starting from an individual contributor, I have grown to the position of manager. I have effectively hired, trained, scaled, and maintained my team. My insights for projects are appreciated and valued by clients. My experience combined with my ability to think out of the box has resulted in many IP solutions including F3 Analysis, and Directed Prosecution. I not only have expertise in IP but also have demonstrated a strong ability in creating tools, throughout my career, to solve problems: 1) PHP/MySQL/JS based graphical dashboard 2) PHP/MySQL/Bootstrap/JQuery based project tracking dashboard 3) VBA Macros

Location

Chandigarh

Work experience

Senior IP Lead at Infosys, Jun 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Manager at Sagacious IP, Mar 2018 - May 2022 · 4 yrs 3 mos, Gurgaon, India, I managed requests from multiple requestors and ensured the timely delivery of quality projects. One of the challenges I faced in my previous role as 'Team Lead' was the allocation of projects among the team members. Manually performing such tasks consumes a lot of time. To overcome this, I developed a web application using PHP, MySQL, JQuery, Bootstrap, and HTML. This increased my efficiency by a minimum of 10%, and drastically reduced the times required for effort tracking and invoice generation team-wide. The web dashboard also included graphs presenting the real-time view of team utilization and staffing. A key responsibility in a client-facing role is to provide solutions to clients. I not only strategized solutions but also executed them with the team I manage. The challenges I have solved include: 1) Developing customized patent portfolio optimization strategies based on budget, timelines, and other requirements. 2) Helping in patent monetization through patent licensing programs. Under the same heading, I have also assisted in directed prosecutions. Overall these have resulted in stronger patent portfolios, alongside increasing the patent portfolio valuations. 3) Forming non-infringement and invalidity contentions, thus helping business negotiations and litigations. I have also conducted various classroom training sessions on topics, related to IP Licensing (F3 Analysis, Directed Prosecution), technologies (Computer Networks, Virtualization, Operating Systems), and automation (VBA Macros, MS Office Suite). As part of the company branding initiatives, I deliver global webinars on multiple topics related to IP Licensing and Monetization. I have also published articles related to these.

Team Lead at Sagacious IP, Nov 2015 - Mar 2018 · 2 yrs 5 mos, Gurgaon, India, I started from an individual hire in the CS team and was responsible for the hiring of team members. Training of the team members was also my responsibility. I was accountable for end-to-end delivery and the quality of the projects that my team worked on. Being a team lead, my role was also client-facing. I handled not only the execution of the projects but was also responsible for devising the project execution strategy. The strategies for project execution varied based on the requirements of the client. For example: 1) There are times clients have ongoing litigation against a competitor. As a solution, the client’s portfolio is analyzed and a few key patents are identified that could establish infringement by the competitor. This has, in some cases, helped the client settle out of court. 2) A client had been getting a high number of patents issued each year. However, no intelligence was being generated from the portfolio. I established a quarterly process that generates actionable insights. At the end of the quarter, each patent has a corresponding action, i.e. either an attorney-reviewed claim chart, or a decision to drop the patent, or to retain the patent for the future. The patents retained for the future could be improved further with Directed Prosecutions. This value add for 'Future' patents gave rise to a new service, ‘Directed Prosecution’ for our clients. The directed prosecution aimed to improve the quality and, in turn, the valuation of the complete patent portfolio. I conceptualized this process and set up a framework for patent monetization, 'F3 Analysis', which eventually won the 'Outstanding Product / Service category' award at the prestigious '2019 Global Business Excellence Awards'. Apart from the licensing projects, I occasionally helped with the patent search and patent analytics requests from the clients. I also contributed to improving company-wide efficiency by updating MS Excel addins previously used by the company.

Senior Patent Analyst at Landon IP, Jan 2015 - Oct 2015 · 10 mos, Gurgaon, India, As a Senior Patent Analyst at Landon IP, my primary responsibility was to assist the Japan office of Landon IP in English language searches. Landon IP has been a leading patent search and analytics provider in the industry with offices at multiple locations. Japan office of Landon IP was working with a Japan-based automobile company for their pre-filing searches. My responsibility included understanding the technology, and perform prior art searches on multiple databases such as Orbit, and Patbase. Apart from working as the English language liaison for the Japan office, I worked with Diane Jones (ex USPTO examiner) on over 80 pre-filing searches. The searches were in multiple domains such as automobile, computing, IoT devices, etc. In addition to working on the searches, I also worked on multiple patent analytics projects, such as white space analysis, competitor analysis, etc. My role was to devise the strategy and execute the complete project. The project execution included forming key strings to extract patents, creating a taxonomy, categorizing the patents into corresponding taxonomies, performing graphical analysis, and generating insights.

Senior Patent Engineer at Clairvolex, Dec 2013 - Dec 2014 · 1 yr 1 mo, Gurgaon, I was primarily part of the licensing and monetization team at Clairvolex, though I occasionally also helped the patent search team. In the patent licensing team, I worked on patent mining. We helped companies in identifying patents for monetization, and also created Evidence of Use charts. I have mined patents as a part of the team, and also handled the complete projects end to end. While helping the search team, I worked on knock-out searches, patentability searches, and other pre-filing searches. I also reviewed Invention Disclosures, helping companies identify patentable subject matter from disclosures submitted by their employees.

Research Associate at Evalueserve, Aug 2011 - Nov 2013 · 2 yrs 4 mos, Gurgaon, At Evalueserve I was a part of one of the largest captive teams in the company. The team was dedicated to one client, with patent mining and patent licensing as the primary tasks. The request structure aligned multiple requestors to different managers in the team. I was aligned with one such manager and worked on several requests related to patent monetization. My primary responsibilities were: 1) Ranking patents based on technology utilization, and business impact of technologies; and 2) Creating EoU charts for the high-ranked patents. The team also sporadically received requests for patent analytics projects. To keep me proficient in other types of IP services, I asked my manager for projects related to patent analytics. While working on analytics projects, my insights were highly appreciated. I also established myself as an MS Excel expert. This led to my manager assigning the responsibility of collating excel deliverables for other landscape projects as well.

Education

B.Tech, IT, Chandigarh Engineering College