Team
Rakesh Sharma
Managing Associate
Rakesh is an IP professional and a graduate in Electronics and Communication Engineering. He is having a thorough & multifaceted career (spanning nearly a decade) in Patent Analytics, Drafting & Prosecution for US and EP jurisdictions. He has excellent understanding of Patent Law, Claim Interpretation and Drafting Skills. As a seasoned professional, he is readily engaged with various end-to-end IP services at different levels and provides intelligent IP solutions. He emphasizes more on promoting innovation for a better world. He loves drafting patent claims keeping all the infringement perspectives in mind. Furthermore, he has a strong bent of mind towards IP automation and has sound knowledge of various IP tools and techniques.

In addition to IPR work, Rakesh is a founder of an NGO (www.ujjwalbhavishya.org) which is working under the motto of EEE (Education, Environment, and Employment). He believes in giving back to the society and continuously working towards this goal with a team of professionals.

Expertise
  • Managing New Product Development Initiatives (NPDs/NPIs)
  • IP Incubation: Assisting inventors in drafting IDFs to cover broader scope of inventions and by conducting awareness programs.
  • Collaborating with Engineering Teams and Outside Counsels (OC's) for product launch and different strategic projects.
  • Search & Analytics: Able to handle state of art search and all end-to-end IP projects (e.g. IDF reviews, Patentability, FTO search, Invalidation searches, Landscapes, and product searches) in the frame of business/innovation initiative
  • Patent Law and Claim interpretation
  • Worked very closely with various Engineering teams and supported portfolio building from idea incubation to innovation management
  • Solution Architect: understanding key problems of clients and providing optimum solutions to them as per their problems using AI-assisted tools.
  • Technical evaluator and performing initial review of IDF and providing recommendations.
  • IP automation - product development and usage of tools for achieving quality and productivity
  • Patent Analytics, Drafting & Prosecution for US and EP jurisdictions.
Education
  • Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics and Communication
Industry Sectors
  • He has keen interest in Sensing & IOT, Automotive industry, Electric vehicles, Consumer Electronics, General Sciences, Gas Sensing, Digital Electronics, Hi-tech, Mechanical, Computer Science, etc.