Patent Strategy Blog
Explore patent searching, portfolio management, and licensing strategies shared by seasoned professionals.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

“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 [...]

“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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

“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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]