Article One Featured Researcher: Ramesh L. Shahabadkar (Ramesh)
Posted on Fri, Aug 20, 2010
Article One Researcher Ramesh is the winner of two AOP Studies:
Min 120 – Minerva Industries Study regarding cell phones
JSA 857 – JSA Technologies Study
Through his work with Article One Ramesh has received $20,000 in reward money and thousands of AOP profit sharing points!
Ramesh first learned about Article One through browsing on the web. Ramesh has been working with IT professionals and searching for documents for more than a decade. He was attracted to AOP because of the “good amount of technology information on the Article One website and the monetary reward.” Currently, Ramesh lives and works in Oman for the Ministry of Education. In Oman, he performs a teaching role for the ministry in which he focuses on teaching information technology subjects. Ramesh has a Doctoral PHD in computer science, and he was also a professor at an Engineering College in India.
Ramesh has worked for a number of companies and educational institutes where he specialized in a variety of areas including programming, web search, Lecturing, patent and IP analysis, and Patent research. All told, Ramesh has about 18 years of experience in Patent Research!
When conducting research for Article One Studies, Ramesh makes sure to first understand the issue. He starts by going through the complete subject matter of the patent in question. Ramesh then distinguishes the crux of the core issue and starts his research, ensuring that he maintains the latest date for prior art. Ramesh says it is important to start with bigger domains and then narrow it down to smaller ones. This process will filter out the unwanted research material.
For his Research tools Ramesh frequently uses Google, Google Scholar, and the USPTO and PTO databases. He has also utilized Micropatents and Delphion databases. Ramesh usually relies on English research tools and documents, though he speaks English, Kannada and Hindi. Ramesh has an easy solution to the issue of deciding which Article One Studies to participate in; He simply researches them all!
When asked what he has done with his AOP reward money Ramesh says, “I put it into savings, my daughter’s education and my family. My father was a principal of a college and then went on to earn a PHD, so education is very important in my family.”
Ramesh has the following advice to the new members of the AOP community:
“Prepare to take on intellectually challenging studies and for a process which is very rewarding.
Cheryl [Milone] has set up very good team who is exciting to work with. If you have the passion you will enjoy the work!”
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