Are you effectively monitoring your Patent budget and its ROI?
Talk of budgets and the very first question that comes to the mind is — Given a certain amount of money, how much should be allocated to various expenses? Should you abandon few patents from the portfolio this year? Should you invest in the technology landscape or use that money for filing more patents? Should […]
5 things to check before you buy a patent
Imagine you decide to invest a lot of money – possibly millions – in a patent since it is being infringed by a product with high market value. Of course, the patent has high value in this case. But have you ever thought – What if this technology becomes obsolete in the coming 2 years, […]
Story of Gourab Dipta Ghosh and GreyB
This is an email that we got from one of our apprentices some time ago. To give you a brief, we run the apprentice program every year to train people whom we hire through college placements. The training goes on along with their last semester in the respective colleges. While the induction takes place every […]
How Patent Review Boards can help CEOs achieve their goal?
The patent world has changed a lot over the past couple of years. Critical court decisions and an increasing number of patent invalidation have made patents complex, harder to grant, and expensive at the same time. Although non-practicing entities (NPEs) still make headlines with frequent litigation suits, the innovation economy is marching forward by leaps […]
Is DivX compression tech really a trouble for Netflix and Hulu?
On March 5 this year, DivX LLC again made it to the headline, as it asserted a patent lawsuit against Hulu and Netflix for infringing their multiple video compression, encryption, and streaming patents. DivX is easily one of the most famous names in video technology domain with over 1 billion devices licensing their video processing […]
My Love for Music helped me find prior art in IEEE 802.16 standard. Let me tell you how.
In our years of performing invalidation searches, there were often occasions when we found inspiration for prior art from the environment around us. There are way too many to link each of them, but you get the idea. I’ve got an addition to make to the list. What inspired me in this case? – You ask. […]
How We Designed a Series of Tests to Prove Patent Infringement Involving Text-to-Speech Products
Around 2017, we heard from an inventor who’d grown dissatisfied with the IP research firm he’d been working with. He owned a patent dating to 2005 that had to do with the automated conversion of written text into audible speech. Specifically, the processes described in the patent would allow text-to-speech conversion that approximated the sound of […]
How we used Electrical Signal Analysis to Reverse Engineer the various processes happening inside a smartphone?
Recently, one of our client contacted us with a project which required a Reverse Engineering based infringement analysis of cutting edge tech. This article discusses how we went about the RE and helped monetize the patent portfolio. A few months ago, we were contacted by Bob*, VP of IP Monetization at a Fortune 500 organization. […]