
Assistant Vice President at CPA Global
India

Assistant Vice President at CPA Global
India
Rahul joined CPA in Jan 2006 where he heads up and has the overall delivery responsibility of a multi-disciplinary team comprising engineers and technologists, statistics experts, automation experts and business development (telemarketing) professionals.
In addition to providing Business and Patent Intelligence reports and Intellectual Property Strategy consulting to clients in US and Europe, Rahul's team is doing pioneering work in the Patent Commercialisation/ Patent Scoring area.
Rahul is also responsible for developing automation to support a multi-million GBP business providing Patent, Trademark, Plant Rights & Design Data Verification service - a one of its kind service in the world aimed at ensuring concordance of details of IP rights in corporate records and those details on PTO office records worldwide.
Rahul also leads internal corporate development projects e.g. assessing location attractiveness of Indian cities from development of an Offshore Research Centre (ORC) perspective; conceptualization-to-implementation of an India based telemarketing channel for Knowledge services (KPO and LPO); Process Mapping and Re-engineering; and Metrics Development for Knowledge Services.
Intellectual Property Research, Analytics, Intelligence, Monetization, Commercialisation, Patents, Patent Strategy
(Privately Held; Legal Services industry)
February 2009 — Present (10 months)
(Partnership; Legal Services industry)
January 2006 — January 2009 (3 years 1 month)
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Legal Services industry)
March 2005 — January 2006 (11 months)
Rahul was hired in 2005 by Pangea3, the leader in Legal Process Outsourcing services, as their first employee in the Intellectual Property division. Along with the Vice President of Intellectual Property sales, Rahul grew the Intellectual Property practice providing sophisticated patent research, analysis and litigation support services from absolute scratch to about 20 people in less than a year.
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Management Consulting industry)
2004 — 2005 (1 year )
Rahul worked on complex Competitive and Technical Intelligence projects involving Patent Landscaping, Technology Standards mapping, Whitespace discovery, Patent Drafting, Prior Art search, Invalidity search, Freedom-to-Operate search, Patent Due Diligence, Product Coverage, Claims Construction, Claims Mapping, Patent Product Mapping, Literature Research projects.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)
July 2002 — January 2004 (1 year 7 months)
Executive Program on “Strategic Intellectual Property Management” , 2007 — 2007
B.E (Honors) , Computer Science , 1998 — 2002
Rahul runs an award-winning, globally recognized blog on Legal Process Outsourcing, called Legallyours http://legallyours.blogspot.com. The blog won the ABA Journal Blawg 100 contest in the Lawyer’s toolkit category in Jan 2008. The blog is also featured among Alltop.com’s “Best of the best” in the Law category.
Rahul has been interviewed by American, Canadian, British and Indian media on numerous occasions. The features varied from talent acquisition in the IP offshoring space, Legal Process Outsourcing, speaking computers making intelligent conversations in Hindi, etc.
Rahul is often consulted by corporations, law firms, private equity firms, and research firms on Legal Outsourcing.
Other awards and recognition includes:
1. Medal for Best Undergraduate Project in the graduating batch of 2002
2. Award for topping Infosys training batch
3. Spot award and best project award at Infosys
4. Mentioned on Rediff, cover story of Siliconeer and project covered by BBC