Mohit Yadav

Mohit Yadav was a runner up in the Neural discharge for predicting cardiac disease contest that closed a few weeks ago.

After his victory we interviewed him about his experience and how he did it.

Here's what he had to say:

What is your profession?

I am a patent scientist. I work on searching patents and non-patent literature and provide technical support to attorneys.

What is your educational background?

I have a bachelor’s of engineering in bio-medical engineering and instrumentations; I am also pursuing bachelor’s in Law.

Which study did you win?

I was a runner up in the Neural discharge for predicting cardiac disease contest.

Tell us: How did you do it?

I used the contest questionnaire criteria to set up my search criteria search databases of patents and non-patent literature.

What part of your expertise was most relevant to the contest you won?

I have some experience with cardiac instruments.

What was the most challenging part of the research?

The most challenging part was to find references that fulfill all of the criteria set up by Patexia in questionnaire; it’s really difficult to put all requirements altogether.

What do you like best about being a community member?

The best things are that I am able to discern in which domains I am lagging behind others and that I receive recent updates regarding new projects, inventions, domains, new tools, and contests in IP field.

How do you choose which studies to participate in?

I prefer my domain of work but if I am comfortable with other technologies; I just go through the available studies, try to understand them in depth, and then search for them.

Which tools do you use to conduct your research?

I used patent and non-patent literature search tools like Google, Google Patents and search platforms like USPTO, PATENTSCOPE, etc.

What are your plans for future contests?

I will take them more seriously and try to work even in cross domain technologies.

What did you learn during your research for this contest?

I learned that sometimes prior-art which seems to be less important to me, might play an important role in the search.

What’s the best piece of advice you could give to other community members?

My best piece of advice is to concentrate on the questionnaire and try to locate prior art which fulfills all of the requirements. Keep only those documents which have clear dates mentioned on them and help fulfill all of the established criteria.

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