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Rahul Jindal is a Senior Manager, Patent Data Solutions, in CPA, the global leader in Intellectual Property Management. CPA is a 40 year old company serving 40,000 clients and has more than 1/3rd of the world's patents under management. Rahul joined CPA in Jan 2006 as the first person hired by CPA for setting up the Patent Analytics team in India. As a part of his present responsibilities, Rahul 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 pound sterling 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.

Prior to CPA, 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.

Rahul began his offshoring career with Infosys, the $5 billion IT behemoth and has also worked for Evaluserve, the pioneer of Knowledge Process Outsourcing, where he 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

Outside of work, 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.

Rahul graduated with Honors in Computer Science in 2002 and won a medal for best undergraduate project. The project “Deepti” was featured on BBC World Service program (Go Digital), Rediff.com, and was the cover story (September 2002 edition) of Siliconeer, a Silicon Valley based magazine. Rahul has also completed the Executive Program on “Strategic Intellectual Property Management” conducted by the World Intellectual Property Organization, Geneva in 2007

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 (http://www.rediff.com/search/2002/sep/02bot.htm), cover story of Siliconeer (http://www.siliconeer.com/past_issues/2002/september2002.html) and project covered by BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2209775.stm)