Outsourcing your IPR needs is fast becoming a much-desired service. With several multi-national companies setting up their R&D departments here, India has become the main Research and Analysis option for customers all over the world. Services such as document writing, global filing, Patent Portfolio Analysis, Patent Mining and Administration, end-to-end Patent Application Drafting and Filing, Patentability Assessment, Patent Claims Mapping and Patent and Technology Landscaping are now outsourced to Research and Analysis service providers.

1. Research Article empowering thoughts
Patent Research Outsourcing and KPO –
Hadron’s view
1st May 2010
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2. Why outsource? empowering thoughts
• Optimize your cost
• Companies can save millions of dollars by outsourcing technical patent
research and analysis to India.
• Dollar to rupee conversion ration is 1:47.
• High quality technical people can work in low wages.
• Save time
• Indian employees are dedicated and hard working who can deliver
reports in quick time
• Presence of highly qualified people from IITs and IISc (these are like MITs of
India).
• “ This is IIT Bombay. Put Harvard, MIT and Princeton together, and you
begin to get an idea of the status of this school in India.“ ‐ (Lesley
Stahl, co‐anchor on CBS 60 Minutes)
• Indian youth is one of the most ambitious youth in the world.
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3. Some examples of R&D investments by companies empowering thoughts
• Companies like GE, IBM, Texas Instruments, Intel, Cisco Systems have set
up their Indian units to utilize Indian technical talent.
• Texas Instruments has 225 US patents awarded to its Indian operation.
• It’s the Year of the Idea, and the newest and busiest hub for innovations
and intellectual property is India.
• Indians are parenting patents like never before in 200 R&D labs.
• India is the new hub for patents, and soon, the world will be outsourcing
R&D from India,” says P Gopalakrishnan, Director, IBM India Research Lab,
IIT.
• “Our 1,400 engineers are constantly innovating chip hardware design,
communication technologies. Now, we even have a well‐developed
Intellectual Property strategic program. In 2003, we made 125 invention
disclosures and several patent filings from India,” says Siddhartha Das, Intel
Technology India Pvt Ltd.
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4. What is KPO? empowering thoughts
• KPO is Knowledge Process Outsourcing.
• One step ahead of Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) as it involves knowledge
related and information related work carried out by highly qualified professionals.
• The KPO typically involves a component of Business Processing Outsourcing
(BPO), Research Process Outsourcing (RPO) and Analysis Proves Outsourcing
(APO).
• Evaluation of KPO because of the success of BPO and large qualified
professionals in India.
• The future of KPO has a high potential as it is not restricted to only Information
Technology (IT) or Information Technology Enabled Services (ITES) sectors and
includes other sectors like Legal Processes, Intellectual Property and Patent
related services, Engineering Services, Web Development application, CAD/CAM
Applications, Business Research and Analytics, Legal Research, Clinical Research,
Publishing, Market Research (Market research KPO ) etc.
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5. How KPO is evolved ? empowering thoughts
2009- Till date (Market capitalization start)
Next steps: From 2009 patent research
companies in India will target on
capturing the market as many
opportunities like innovation in business
processes in patent research and VC
2004-2007 (Acceptance in market and increase in vendors doors are opening up.
More over huge pool of talent in India is
now experienced in this Industry (as the
industry is now 10-11 years old) is
2000 (Evaluation of offshore research and analytics)
available for recruitment.
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6. Global market size of KPO empowering thoughts
Global KPO Market:
• The global KPO industry stands at US$ 1.2 billion today.
• The NASSCOM (National Association of Software and Service Companies)
estimates the KPO market to grow by gargantuan proportions to US$ 15.5
billion by 2010.
• The number of Indian KPO professionals is set to leap from 25,000 to 250,000
employees by 2010.
R&D investments in billion $ by companies in 2009
Johnson & Pfizer Novartis (NVS) Roche Merck Bristol‐
Johnson (JNJ) (PFE) (RHHBY) (MRK) Meyers
Squibb
(BMY)
$7.0 $7.8 $7.5 $9.9 $5.9 $5.1
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7. India Advantages empowering thoughts
Technical
expertise
Creative and
India (Value
Innovative Cost effective
proposition)
management
Large pool of
talent
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8. Vendors empowering thoughts
• There are many vendors in the Industry namely:
• Evalueserve
• CPA Global
• Pangea3
• Hadron Analytics
• Aranca
• Other offshore research centers:
• GE
• IBM
• Novartis
• P&G
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9. Contact us empowering thoughts
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10. empowering thoughts
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