Share this with your search vendor when multiple round of searches lead to nothing
Many a time, even after multiple rounds of searches – in house, from the client’s side, and using vendors – leads to no results. One reason it happens because the winning prior art is unsearchable or in other words doesn’t come up using the keyword-based searches. We have found ourselves in such a situation multiple […]
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11 Supreme Court Decisions That Have Affected US Patent Laws In Past Decade
In the dispute between Helsinn Healthcare v Teva Pharmaceutical, the Supreme court unanimously decided and affirmed the Federal Circuit decision to consider a secret sale as prior art. The decision led the case to become one of the famous Supreme Court patent cases. It all started when Helsinn began developing a drug-using palonosetron to treat […]
Why you should add Expired Patents in a FTO report?
We received a freedom-to-operate search from John, a decade-old client of ours. We share a pleasant relationship where we could discuss our concerns and requirements straight away. John was handling the freedom to operate (FTO) project for one of his clients for the very first time. One thing we sensed that John wanted to give […]
How NorthStar Can Help Overcome two major challenges of Tech Scouting?
A survey was conducted by Innovation Leader on more than 25 innovation, R&D, corporate development, and strategy executives from $1+ billion companies. The report, Best Practices: Scouting Trends and Emerging Technology, reflected three major, below mentioned, challenges faced by tech-scouters today: Building strong relationships with the business units so they can take advantage of the […]
Supply Chain Management: How to use Patents for Risk Mitigation and strategic negotiations?
Apple has suppliers in more than 30 countries around the world. GM, to produce the Chevy Volts, uses more than 800 suppliers. Businesses face many challenges – from natural calamities to man-made disasters, and from govt. regulations to customers’ tendency to blow hot and cold. The complex supply chains are only adding to the woes […]
How Competitive Landscape Analysis could lead to effective R&D Strategy?
How is Competitive Landscape helpful to researchers for creating an effective R&D strategy? To answer this question in its truest sense, we need to understand what competitive landscaping really is (and while we do that, it would be fun to shatter a few myths in the process). What is Competitive Landscaping? Competitive Landscaping is often construed […]
8 SMEs Using Patents as part of their Business Strategy
Julija Kaminskaite, as a part of her business school program, submitted her thesis on reducing the failure rate of SMEs. What astounded me when I was reading through the paper was this particular statement, which I have paraphrased here – “In the past few years, the failure rate of SMEs fluctuated from 70 to 90%, […]
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How to Get Broader and Good Quality Patents
This article, authored by Shikhar Sahni, first appeared as a guest article on IPWatchdog.com Patents, for a long while, have been an integral part of the business development strategy. Companies like ARM and Qualcomm have built their business around patents which constitute a major part of their revenue. And the quality of their patents, for […]