Learn from Apple and Google to go beyond the survival during recession!
Imagine you’re Mike, the IP Counsel of a leading technology manufacturing company. With the economy slowly slipping into a recession, you must ensure that your company doesn’t sink. This means [...]
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Invalidating Patents using Non Patent Literature – A Valuable Source of Prior Art
Every day, as we take a step at making our life more digital, we facilitate digitization of our knowledge. Hundreds of documents, on a regular basis, are getting scanned, listed, indexed and made [...]

Concept Hacking: A Methodology to Deliver Outstanding Results
Failure testing, Statistical control, Total quality management – There isn’t a dearth of approaches followed by Quality Assurance teams of organizations. No doubt, these approaches have proven [...]
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MS Office: A Holy Congregation of Shortcuts for Patent Professionals
With Halloween coming around this week, we thought why not indulge in “Trick-O-Treat”, but the only trick here is that it’s gonna be “Treat-O-Treat” for you. On this spooky season, wanna lift [...]

Five Indicators that Can Help IP Counsels do Better in Prosecutions
Someone not so famous once said — If something helps you get better, leverage it. The “it” varies from person to person, based on needs and priorities. For IP counsel, one such “it” could be [...]

How to claim Treble damages during patent litigation – Insights from WSOU v. Microsoft
Higher damages and specifically, treble damages are a dream come true for every plaintiff in patent litigation. I mean who won’t like triple the normally entitled amount? However, if we have to [...]

Enhancing Understanding of Technology Readiness Levels through Patents
“In some ways, Technology transformation can be a little confusing”, I thought to myself as I sat writing this article. Why’s that? you ask. Well, to many of us transformation can implicate [...]

How to Select A Better Search Partner?
“Tis’ the era of outsourcing!” And there’s nothing particularly wrong with it. Especially in the case of In-house counsels and Patent Attorneys trying to find prior art to save their client’s [...]

This strategy can help you Predict Potential Patent Litigation Threats
Studying various infringement cases, I couldn’t help but notice that companies generally start preparing against litigations only after they are sued. For example, doing non-infringement checks, [...]

Let’s discuss some key manners in which companies can manage and monetize their patents to full potential
Pre-script: This thought piece is written keeping in mind the board members and key decision-makers that aren’t from the IP department. If you are an in-house patent counsel, patent [...]

Get Inspired – Young Inventors changing the world with their masterminds
Did you know that the smart stick for blind people was innovated by a 14-year-old? Yes, Riya Karumanchi from Toronto was an eighth-grade student when she grabbed the opportunity to innovate [...]

Shane Chen’s Patent on Hoverboard Which Threatened over 25 Companies Can get Invalidated
Do you also believe that a patent protects your invention? Well, Sorry for bursting the bubble but it’s a myth. 90% of patents are valueless and couldn’t be defended. A patent only gives [...]

Invalidating Design Patent: How we found Prior Art in a Museum?
We find prior art in a lot of unconventional places. Sitcoms, Pop culture magazines, FCC ID databases, Internet archives – Well, almost every place where you would least think of finding prior [...]

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How strong is NuCurrent’s patent asserted against Samsung?
NuCurrent has been very active in providing wireless charging solutions since 2009, which were commercialized in 2012, while Samsung introduced a wireless charging kit as an add-on to the Galaxy [...]

18 patent monetization strategies everyone should know
Selling a patent, licensing a patent, patent pooling, proving that your patent is a standard essential patent, etc are some of the patent monetization strategies or in other words, are different [...]

How Microsoft and IBM Are Killing Potential of These Patents
Corporations continuously invest in R&D to maintain their competitive edge. A good portion of this investment further goes into building a patent portfolio that helps the company in a number [...]

This Thanksgiving let’s revisit some Innovations we are thankful for in 2022!
With family, friends, and big meals, the time has come when you go into the biggest food coma of the year. It’s Thanksgiving!! Beyond food, it’s the time when we come together to count our [...]

What our experts have to say about the Clarivate Patent Trend Report 2022
While going through weekly emails from the marketing team, I stumbled upon the above statement. This in return made me search more into the Clarivate Patent Trend Report of this year. I have seen [...]

Never thought this will happen when you get space for creativity?
Usually, the world of the intellectual property falls on the technical side, and people working in this field must be well-versed in this aspect. But adding creative skills to your technical [...]

Novelty Search in Videos – My journey from having nothing to a relevant art
After a long and hard day at work, I like to come home to a steaming cup of coffee, with toasted marshmallows on top, chocolate chip cookies on the side and some entertainment source to get my [...]

How to Invalidate Pharma Patents on “Obvious to Try” grounds?
As a litigator, you love killer prior art, don’t you? A perfect Tier-I reference(s) would make life so easy and court proceedings bliss. But what if killer prior art does not exist? The next [...]

How a Patent Monetization Analysis Helped a Major Asian Telecom Company Prepare to Defend Patent Infringement Lawsuits in the U.S.
In 2017, we heard from an executive who was heading up a team that specialized in mobile and augmented reality-related technology at a large Asian telecom company. She had a troublesome problem [...]

Are you using spreadsheets to manage your patent portfolio?
The utility as well as the supply and demand of IP has seen a significant shift in the last decade and so has the way leading companies are viewing IP. A decade ago companies wielded IP more as a [...]

How we found solid prior art in obscure archives of FCC database?
“Searching prior art is not a process, it is an art.” In my 6 years of experience, I have been a part of ~250 patent invalidation processes. If it has taught me anything, it is that there are [...]
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How to know if competitors are filing patents on your products?
We have been working on a lot of drone-related patent monetization projects recently and came across quite a few interesting drone-related patents worth acquiring. Flirtey’s drone safety [...]

Patent Continuation Strategy: Filing Continuation Applications to enhance the Value of a Portfolio
Technologies, nowadays, are so dynamic they often overlap multiple fields and application areas. For instance, virtual reality, a branch of computer technology has applications in healthcare, [...]

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 [...]