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    Bell Semiconductor’s US7231626B2 is taking semiconductor companies under its radar. Are you safe?
    By Team GreyB
    In Case Studies, Patent Intelligence, Patent Litigation, Patent Search, Prior Art Search
    Posted March 24, 2023

    Bell Semiconductor’s US7231626B2 is taking semiconductor companies under its radar. Are you safe?

    Bell Semiconductor, an entity of Hilco Global, has thousands of patents in the semiconductor domain. However, despite the connotations, it is a category 2 Non-Practicing Entity and doesn’t seem [...]

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    Make a high-return litigation funding decision with GreyB
    By Team GreyB
    In Patent Litigation
    Posted February 24, 2023

    Make a high-return litigation funding decision with GreyB

    “First of all, it is very expensive litigation, and it is fairly risky on the plaintiff’s side, so the risk transferred to a funder is very appealing. You often have, not always, but a David [...]

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    Use this Lens.org Feature for Non-patent Literature Search
    By Team GreyB
    In Patent Search, Prior Art Search
    Posted February 17, 2023

    Use this Lens.org Feature for Non-patent Literature Search

    Whether you’re a seasoned patent expert or just starting to dive into the field, you already know how important non-patent literature (NPL) search is when invalidating a patent. However, a [...]

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    Can Amazon survive the heat? Inside the State Farm vs Amazon Lawsuit
    By Team GreyB
    In Case Studies
    Posted February 3, 2023

    Can Amazon survive the heat? Inside the State Farm vs Amazon Lawsuit

    Alexa, can Amazon protect itself against the State Farm lawsuit? … While Alexa might not have the answer to this, we sure do. Stay tuned till the end, and you will too. Many dream of [...]

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    How research dissertations proved obviousness in Pharmaceutical formulation patents?
    By Team GreyB
    In Case Studies
    Posted January 27, 2023

    How research dissertations proved obviousness in Pharmaceutical formulation patents?

    As a litigator, you always want to find that killer prior art that will eventually help your clients win an invalidity case, right?  But despite your best attempts, there may not always be a [...]

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    We found prior art for a patent in Jurassic Park!
    By Team GreyB
    In Case Studies, Prior Art Search
    Posted January 16, 2023

    We found prior art for a patent in Jurassic Park!

    Yes, you read that right. I found system prior art for a validity search in the Jurassic Park movie! While you are probably wondering how and what? Please hold on to your excitement as I [...]

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    PUMA lost the case because of Rihanna! Here is why
    By Team GreyB
    In Interesting Read, Patent Litigation, Prior Art Search
    Posted January 13, 2023

    PUMA lost the case because of Rihanna! Here is why

    In just a few decades, social media, as we know it, has influenced our everyday life. Over 4.5 billion people use social media daily. More than 300 million photos are uploaded daily on Facebook. [...]

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    Case Study: How we mined through 1600 patents to find valuable assets
    By Team GreyB
    In Case Studies
    Posted December 30, 2022

    Case Study: How we mined through 1600 patents to find valuable assets

    Patents aim to add value to a company through different forms of monetization, and when the size of the patent portfolio increases, it becomes all the more important to identify the top-line [...]

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    How did we find prior-art in YouTube’s video demonstrations?
    By Team GreyB
    In Case Studies, Prior Art Search
    Posted April 14, 2022

    How did we find prior-art in YouTube’s video demonstrations?

    Have you ever heard of – hiding in plain sight? How often does one skip the details because they look pretty obvious? But, a more important question, why am I asking these questions? I [...]

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    Applying First principle thinking for invalidating a software patent
    By Team GreyB
    In Patent Intelligence, Prior Art Search
    Posted December 17, 2021

    Applying First principle thinking for invalidating a software patent

    If you have ever received a software patent for invalidation that has claims like a “computer command” that comprise –  1) DOM index value,  2) DOM property name, and  3) DOM property value [...]

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    Finding a killer Prior art with a special analysis tool
    By Team GreyB
    In Patent Intelligence, Prior Art Search
    Posted November 26, 2021

    Finding a killer Prior art with a special analysis tool

    While on a hunt for a killer prior art, even after putting in all your blood and sweat, it is not certain that you will hit right on it. One of the many reasons could be that the industry or, the [...]

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    Patent Invalidation search: Invalidating a Med-Tech patent by concept-hacking
    By Team GreyB
    In Case Studies, Patent Intelligence, Prior Art Search
    Posted November 2, 2021

    Patent Invalidation search: Invalidating a Med-Tech patent by concept-hacking

    “… Intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience”, Einstein said. Ideas are just a mash-up of already existing information. And what if I tell you with that logic, [...]

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    ETSI Email Archives: A secret ingredient to crack SEP Litigation
    By Team GreyB
    In Patent Intelligence, Prior Art Search
    Posted October 7, 2021

    ETSI Email Archives: A secret ingredient to crack SEP Litigation

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    Using Non Patent Literature for invalidating Whey Protein formulation patent
    By Team GreyB
    In Case Studies, Patent Intelligence, Prior Art Search
    Posted September 6, 2021

    Using Non Patent Literature for invalidating Whey Protein formulation patent

    Have you ever faced a situation where you are trying to invalidate a formulation patent and end up not having even a single prior art disclosing the exact same proportions of ingredients? Despite [...]

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    How preprint servers gave us an edge in an invalidation search
    By Team GreyB
    In Case Studies, Patent Intelligence, Prior Art Search
    Posted September 2, 2021

    How preprint servers gave us an edge in an invalidation search

    As a searcher, each of us has an array of tactics and strategies at our disposal. Implementing the right tactic at the right resource could open doors to the prior art which you thought might not [...]

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    Prior-art in News articles: How purchasing a new phone led to a killer prior-art?
    By Team GreyB
    In Case Studies, Patent Intelligence, Prior Art Search
    Posted August 26, 2021

    Prior-art in News articles: How purchasing a new phone led to a killer prior-art?

    Imagine this – You have a patent to invalidate. What are the possible search avenues you will explore to ensure a comprehensive search such that no prior art is missed? If you’re a [...]

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    How to strategize a search when there is no prior art for invalidation?
    By Team GreyB
    In Case Studies, Patent Intelligence, Prior Art Search
    Posted August 18, 2021

    How to strategize a search when there is no prior art for invalidation?

    In the practical world, circumstances are not always in our favor. Sometimes, indeed, we don’t have suitable weapons to fight the battle. On the contrary, the opponent’s counterattack is so [...]

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    Patent invalidation hacks in the semiconductor industry
    By Team GreyB
    In Patent Intelligence, Prior Art Search
    Posted August 16, 2021

    Patent invalidation hacks in the semiconductor industry

    Patent filing in the semiconductor industry has exploded in recent years as new technologies like the internet of things, machine learning, and artificial intelligence have rapidly expanded in [...]

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    What are the roadblocks in sequence searching and how to overcome them?
    By Team GreyB
    In Patent Intelligence, Prior Art Search
    Posted August 16, 2021

    What are the roadblocks in sequence searching and how to overcome them?

    Imagine this – You are a leading biopharmaceutical player whose R&D team has developed a novel product. Before launching the product, you want to make sure your product is not infringing on [...]

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    How to Invalidate Pharma Patents on “Obvious to Try” grounds?
    By Team GreyB
    In Case Studies, Patent Intelligence, Prior Art Search
    Posted August 9, 2021

    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 [...]

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    Finding system prior-art in old battered phones (Patent invalidation)
    By Team GreyB
    In Case Studies, Patent Intelligence, Prior Art Search
    Posted June 4, 2021

    Finding system prior-art in old battered phones (Patent invalidation)

    Imagine this – A leading smartphone player comes to you with a litigation-grade search project for a smartphone-related patent. If the fact that this patent was in litigation does not sound [...]

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    How System Prior Art can help videogame companies avert patent litigation?
    By Team GreyB
    In Case Studies, Patent Intelligence, Prior Art Search
    Posted April 9, 2021

    How System Prior Art can help videogame companies avert patent litigation?

    “Gamers are the most passionate people in the world and it’s painful when you make them unhappy”. Jack Tretton, President, and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment America (2013) We have to agree [...]

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    How to find prior art without spending countless hours on citation analysis?
    By Team GreyB
    In Patent Intelligence, Patent Search, Prior Art Search
    Posted March 12, 2021

    How to find prior art without spending countless hours on citation analysis?

    Have you ever been lost in the ocean of cited references in a patent invalidation search?   Citation analysis, although a powerful strategy, is often limited to the second or third generation of [...]

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    How we found a prior art in patent invalidity case from a previous lawsuit
    By Team GreyB
    In Case Studies, Patent Intelligence, Prior Art Search
    Posted January 29, 2021

    How we found a prior art in patent invalidity case from a previous lawsuit

    Has this ever happened to you during a litigation grade search that you found prior art in complaint documents? Yes, those very documents which in a previous infringement lawsuit was used to [...]

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    How to find prior art when mathematical expressions are part of the claim elements?
    By Team GreyB
    In Case Studies, Patent Intelligence, Prior Art Search
    Posted August 12, 2020

    How to find prior art when mathematical expressions are part of the claim elements?

    Finding prior art for a patent that has a mathematical expression or a complex equation in its claim is hard. If you have worked on such cases before, you would know it is not like another [...]

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    Prior Art Search: Digging Deep into Combination Art
    By Team GreyB
    In Case Studies, Patent Intelligence, Prior Art Search
    Posted July 29, 2020

    Prior Art Search: Digging Deep into Combination Art

    As a litigator, you love killer prior art,  don’t you? But sometimes you have to make do with 103-type if you are in the US. The sound of 103-type just made you sigh, didn’t it? It is justified [...]

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    How intellectual curiosity helped us identify a killer prior art in a short timeframe?
    By Team GreyB
    In Patent Intelligence, Prior Art Search
    Posted July 21, 2020

    How intellectual curiosity helped us identify a killer prior art in a short timeframe?

    Have you ever faced a situation where you had to find killer prior art in a limited time frame? Let me tell you what happened when we faced a similar challenge recently.  In this case client [...]

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    Prior art search: When simple and obvious concepts are patented in a different industry
    By Team GreyB
    In Case Studies, Patent Intelligence, Patent Search
    Posted May 7, 2020

    Prior art search: When simple and obvious concepts are patented in a different industry

    Patent attorneys are often in a zero-sum game when it comes to litigation. Wins are attributed to how strong the prior art is with the attorney. My job is to find this prior art. Most patent [...]

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    Non-patent Search: How we killed an ecigarette patent
    By Team GreyB
    In Case Studies, Patent Intelligence, Prior Art Search
    Posted April 17, 2020

    Non-patent Search: How we killed an ecigarette patent

    Has this ever happened to you – You are conducting a prior-art search and something keeps on jabbing at the back of your head, questioning whether you have explored everything?  Well, it happens [...]

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    Books: A wonderful source of finding prior art!
    By Team GreyB
    In Patent Intelligence, Prior Art Search
    Posted February 1, 2020

    Books: A wonderful source of finding prior art!

    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”  ― Jorge Luis Borges I’ve heard this quote many times, yet hadn’t felt it until now. Recently, I was analyzing the stats of the [...]

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    Case of really tough LED patent previously under lawsuits and part of PTAB petitions.
    By Team GreyB
    In Case Studies, Patent Intelligence, Prior Art Search
    Posted January 14, 2020

    Case of really tough LED patent previously under lawsuits and part of PTAB petitions.

    “My client wants a fresh search on a patent about LED substrates” emailed an attorney – our repeat client – on a Friday. “Of course, we can help you as this is relatable technology”, [...]

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    We Found Prior Art for a 4G Telecom patent using Link Adaptation Concept from 90s
    By Team GreyB
    In Case Studies, Patent Intelligence, Prior Art Search
    Posted January 13, 2020

    We Found Prior Art for a 4G Telecom patent using Link Adaptation Concept from 90s

    “I don’t know what else I can tell you, it seems nothing good exists,” said the attorney on a conference call. This conversation took place during one of the interim connects in the project [...]

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    Our investigative approach helped us find convincing evidence in the cited prior arts. Let me tell you how.
    By Team GreyB
    In Case Studies, Patent Intelligence, Prior Art Search
    Posted October 15, 2019

    Our investigative approach helped us find convincing evidence in the cited prior arts. Let me tell you how.

    When it comes to prior art searches, among the huge list of resources and strategies explored and employed during the search, searchers generally tend to give a low priority to already cited [...]

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    My Love for Music helped me find prior art in IEEE 802.16 standard. Let me tell you how.
    By Team GreyB
    In Case Studies, Patent Intelligence, Prior Art Search
    Posted September 6, 2019

    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, [...]

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    Art of winning at IPR – Creating a stronger litigation strategy by attacking a problem from various angles
    By Team GreyB
    In Patent Intelligence, Prior Art Search
    Posted August 16, 2019

    Art of winning at IPR – Creating a stronger litigation strategy by attacking a problem from various angles

    An attorney fighting a litigation suit is not unlike a soldier on a battlefield. The soldier equipped with sniper or high-tech weapons could give a deadly blow to the enemy, however, that’s not [...]

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    We use Non patent literature to find relevant patents which can serve as kickass prior art. Here’s how we do it!
    By Team GreyB
    In Case Studies, Patent Intelligence, Prior Art Search
    Posted August 13, 2019

    We use Non patent literature to find relevant patents which can serve as kickass prior art. Here’s how we do it!

    In the US, while presenting a piece of non-patent literature (NPL) as a valid prior art, the litigators have to overcome challenges of proving that the NPL was publicly accessible and that the [...]

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    The Case of winning an IPR at PTAB
    By Team GreyB
    In Case Studies, Patent Intelligence, Prior Art Search
    Posted July 30, 2019

    The Case of winning an IPR at PTAB

    Old times were simple.  There was a plaintiff, who tried to sue a company, and then the company asked us to find some good prior art. We logged in to simple patent databases, many of which were [...]

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    How Machine Learning and Chinese Craigslist Helped Invalidate a Decade-Old Patent
    By Team GreyB
    In Case Studies, Patent Intelligence, Prior Art Search
    Posted July 16, 2019

    How Machine Learning and Chinese Craigslist Helped Invalidate a Decade-Old Patent

    In 2016, a major Chinese smartphone manufacturer came to us with a problem. The company was being sued by a competitor, also based in China, for patent infringement, and they would soon have to [...]

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    How a Circuit We Designed Helped Solve a Prior Art Puzzle
    By Team GreyB
    In Case Studies, Patent Intelligence, Prior Art Search
    Posted July 11, 2019

    How a Circuit We Designed Helped Solve a Prior Art Puzzle

    In 2017, we were approached by an attorney representing a large manufacturer of digital and analog computer chips that we’ll call Chip and Dale Corp. The company had recently been contacted by [...]

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    System Prior Art: Why we prioritize it over other references?
    By Team GreyB
    In Patent Intelligence, Prior Art Search
    Posted June 7, 2019

    System Prior Art: Why we prioritize it over other references?

    Have you ever been in a situation where your IPR got instituted, but the PTO declared the challenged claim as valid? If a challenged claim(s) is declared valid by the USPTO in IPR, and later a [...]

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    3 Instances Where We Invalidated Patents Infringed Under ITC Section 337
    By Team GreyB
    In Case Studies, Patent Intelligence, Prior Art Search
    Posted January 29, 2019

    3 Instances Where We Invalidated Patents Infringed Under ITC Section 337

    Patent infringement has become a lot common in the past couple of decades. With increased interconnectivity among technologies and the existence of thousands of patents covering them, it has [...]

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    How We Found Prior Art For A Trade Secret Infringement Case Under ITC 337?
    By Team GreyB
    In Case Studies, Patent Intelligence, Prior Art Search
    Posted January 8, 2019

    How We Found Prior Art For A Trade Secret Infringement Case Under ITC 337?

    How difficult is it to find a solution to a problem you know nothing about? Difficult? Very difficult? Preposterous, you say? No, we are not being ludicrous. Though less often, there are [...]

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    How checking Change requests helped us invalidate a patent related to Mathematical expression?
    By Team GreyB
    In Case Studies, Patent Intelligence, Prior Art Search
    Posted November 27, 2018

    How checking Change requests helped us invalidate a patent related to Mathematical expression?

    The patent set was already exhausted. Searching on standards for hours started feeling like inside of a spiral that keeps tightening as you go down. In between, some references emerged undeniable [...]

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    How we found Prior Art of a Composition Patent for IPR?
    By Team GreyB
    In Case Studies, Patent Intelligence, Prior Art Search
    Posted November 20, 2018

    How we found Prior Art of a Composition Patent for IPR?

    Not all prior art searches are run equally. Some are complex, some are easy, and some test your temperament by pushing you to the dark abyss of self-doubt where you question your abilities and [...]

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    Zomm vs Apple: Can US8351895 be invalidated?
    By Team GreyB
    In Patent Intelligence, Prior Art Search
    Posted September 25, 2018

    Zomm vs Apple: Can US8351895 be invalidated?

    Breach of contract, unfair competition, and willful patent infringement – The very terms predominant in the complaint filed by wireless manufacturer Zomm against the Cupertino based tech giant. [...]

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    How a Mobile App helped us find relevant Prior art in an invalidity search?
    By Team GreyB
    In Case Studies, Patent Intelligence, Prior Art Search
    Posted September 18, 2018

    How a Mobile App helped us find relevant Prior art in an invalidity search?

    “Not today!” – I groaned as I woke up and saw the clock beside my bedside. It was 8:15 AM already and I had only 45 minutes to get to the office. I couldn’t afford to get late as I had a client [...]

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    Everything we could tell you about Patent Invalidation
    By Team GreyB
    In Patent Intelligence, Prior Art Search
    Posted July 31, 2018

    Everything we could tell you about Patent Invalidation

    You’re looking for Patent Invalidation search or ways to invalidate a patent. You know there are more than a couple of ways to do it. Or maybe you don’t. Well, for starters, you need prior art to [...]

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    How We Invalidated a Patent Related to Drones?
    By Team GreyB
    In Case Studies, Patent Intelligence, Prior Art Search
    Posted July 24, 2018

    How We Invalidated a Patent Related to Drones?

    Drones fascinate me. They are wonderful tools of entertainment and transportation and has so much potential, which, if fully explored can change the way mankind transports. Technology companies [...]

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    How We found Prior Art in Non Patent Literature of University Publication?
    By Team GreyB
    In Case Studies, Patent Intelligence, Prior Art Search
    Posted July 10, 2018

    How We found Prior Art in Non Patent Literature of University Publication?

    I was leaning in my chair while watching those bees through the steam of my coffee. They were four in number, flying from one plant to another, from one flower to next, collecting the sugary [...]

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    Physical Search: Unconventional Way to find Prior Art
    By Team GreyB
    In Case Studies, Patent Intelligence, Prior Art Search
    Posted July 6, 2018

    Physical Search: Unconventional Way to find Prior Art

    Prior art can be found in a lot of places. Some conventional, others unimaginable yet a valid source of prior art – the unconventional one. As analysts, we are tuned to exhaust the conventional [...]

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    Mesa sues Amazon, Sony, Lenovo, and Blackberry – a prior art could be found here
    By Team GreyB
    In Patent Intelligence, Prior Art Search
    Posted June 22, 2018

    Mesa sues Amazon, Sony, Lenovo, and Blackberry – a prior art could be found here

    Patent Assertion Entities have been an active topic of discussion in IP industries for years. They have earned a moniker of frivolous lawsuit filers trying to assert a patent covering vague or [...]

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    How Lateral Thinking Helped us in Invalidating a Standard Essential Patent on HDMI Technology?
    By Team GreyB
    In Case Studies, Patent Intelligence, Prior Art Search
    Posted May 29, 2018

    How Lateral Thinking Helped us in Invalidating a Standard Essential Patent on HDMI Technology?

    Invalidating patents is hard. Invalidating a standard-essential patent (SEPs) is even harder. SEPs claim technical solutions that are part of industry standards. Needless to say, they are much [...]

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    Invalidating Design Patent: How we found Prior Art in a Museum?
    By Team GreyB
    In Case Studies, Patent Intelligence, Prior Art Search
    Posted May 8, 2018

    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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    7 things an Attorney must share before a Patent Validity Search
    By Team GreyB
    In Patent Intelligence, Prior Art Search
    Posted March 27, 2018

    7 things an Attorney must share before a Patent Validity Search

    The purpose of a patent validity search is to validate the enforceability of claims of a patent. If you a plaintiff, a patent validity search will help you know if your patent is going to survive [...]

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    Why GreyB is one of the best Patent Search Firms that can provide you Relevant Prior Art?
    By Team GreyB
    In Patent Intelligence, Prior Art Search
    Posted March 25, 2018

    Why GreyB is one of the best Patent Search Firms that can provide you Relevant Prior Art?

    You would have handled cases where you gave the same search to multiple firms and only a handful returned with the art that you were looking for. Why is it that some search firms find the right [...]

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    How did we find Prior Art in a Sitcom?
    By Team GreyB
    In Case Studies, Patent Intelligence, Prior Art Search
    Posted March 20, 2018

    How did we find Prior Art in a Sitcom?

    I’m a self-confessed fan of sitcoms and movies. A binge-watcher by nature, I often spend weekends endlessly staring at my laptop screen, with munchies on my side, so that I don’t have to hit [...]

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    Patent Invalidation – 4 Instances Where We Invalidated Patents using Unconventional Methods
    By Team GreyB
    In Case Studies, Patent Intelligence, Prior Art Search
    Posted March 13, 2018

    Patent Invalidation – 4 Instances Where We Invalidated Patents using Unconventional Methods

    Click to read this article in Chinese 🇨🇳 What exactly is the objective of an invalidation search? That’s an easy question. Of course, it is to find a result – one that discloses [...]

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    How we found references in non patent literature without performing an NPL search?
    By Team GreyB
    In Case Studies, Patent Intelligence, Prior Art Search
    Posted December 1, 2017

    How we found references in non patent literature without performing an NPL search?

    Prior art search is a big part of the work we do. When we started, we were convinced that prior art searches should never be run with a set framework where only the following few defined steps [...]

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    Prior art search – 4 Cases where finding reference was next to impossible
    By Team GreyB
    In Case Studies, Patent Intelligence, Prior Art Search
    Posted September 26, 2017

    Prior art search – 4 Cases where finding reference was next to impossible

    Invalidation searches are not a cakewalk. That’s why a lot of time many prior art search service providers or your in-house team fail to return with a result you needed. Weak results or no [...]

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    How we found solid prior art in obscure archives of FCC database?
    By Team GreyB
    In Case Studies, Patent Intelligence, Prior Art Search
    Posted August 2, 2017

    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 we use 3G and GSM concepts to invalidate 4G LTE Patents?
    By Team GreyB
    In Patent Intelligence, Prior Art Search
    Posted May 19, 2017

    How we use 3G and GSM concepts to invalidate 4G LTE Patents?

    Of late, we have been performing a lot of invalidation searches on patents of 4G LTE. And I noticed a weird pattern – call it insight if you would like to – that I didn’t discover earlier while [...]

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    BlackBerry Vs. Nokia – Why we believe US8861433 can be invalidated?
    By Team GreyB
    In Patent Intelligence, Prior Art Search
    Posted March 30, 2017

    BlackBerry Vs. Nokia – Why we believe US8861433 can be invalidated?

    I am very fond of Nokia and its products. Mostly because I feel they have made a huge contribution in developing various 3GPP standards. So when I found out that Blackberry was suing Nokia [...]

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    The Cloud Communication Platform Giant Twilio’s Patent US8738051 Can Get Invalidated
    By Team GreyB
    In Patent Intelligence, Prior Art Search
    Posted February 7, 2017

    The Cloud Communication Platform Giant Twilio’s Patent US8738051 Can Get Invalidated

    Less than a month ago, Twilio Inc. filed a suit against Telesign Corporation for willful patent infringement. According to the complaint by Twilio, Telesign was a previous customer, and its [...]

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    Cantigny vs Intermatic – How Intermatic could win this patent fight?
    By Team GreyB
    In Patent Intelligence, Prior Art Search
    Posted December 20, 2016

    Cantigny vs Intermatic – How Intermatic could win this patent fight?

    Do you know that nearly one-third of the patents involved in litigation were found to be invalid? Well, if you feel this number is high then you will find it difficult to accept our belief – We [...]

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    Smart Ways to Perform Patent Invalidity Searches for Mathematical Expressions
    By Team GreyB
    In Patent Intelligence, Prior Art Search
    Posted September 6, 2016

    Smart Ways to Perform Patent Invalidity Searches for Mathematical Expressions

    Have you ever had a case where you had to perform an invalidation search and you need a prior art for a claim at the heart of which has a mathematical expression? Needless to say, you wouldn’t [...]

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    This One Publication Can Invalidate Most 3D Printing Patents
    By Team GreyB
    In Patent Intelligence, Prior Art Search
    Posted September 2, 2016

    This One Publication Can Invalidate Most 3D Printing Patents

    Patent thickets, broad patents, and patents covering vague and combinatorial claims have exponentially increased in number over the past few decades. Cloaking under the name of patent strategy, [...]

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    How Technology Timeline Can Help Find Hidden Prior Art
    By Team GreyB
    In Patent Intelligence, Prior Art Search
    Posted August 19, 2016

    How Technology Timeline Can Help Find Hidden Prior Art

    With the passage of time, technological terms have evolved drastically. Earlier phones were called radiotelephones, later as mobile stations and now we use term user equipment. Did you also [...]

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    Shane Chen’s Patent on Hoverboard Which Threatened over 25 Companies Can get Invalidated
    By Team GreyB
    In Patent Intelligence, Prior Art Search
    Posted June 24, 2016

    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 [...]

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    Attorneys, Are You Getting Quality Prior Art Search Services?
    By Team GreyB
    In Patent Intelligence, Prior Art Search
    Posted April 13, 2016

    Attorneys, Are You Getting Quality Prior Art Search Services?

    Whenever one gets into a problem, the right thing to do is to identify and apply the best solution. However, one can’t decide if a solution is best unless it is compared with other available [...]

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    Why Image Analysis is Important in A Prior Art Search?
    By Team GreyB
    In Patent Intelligence, Prior Art Search
    Posted March 2, 2016

    Why Image Analysis is Important in A Prior Art Search?

    In today’s consumer-centric world, satisfying a clients’ needs is the primary goal of any company. When it comes to prior art searches, there is only one thing that can satisfy a client: a [...]

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    Invalidating Patents using Non Patent Literature – A Valuable Source of Prior Art
    By Team GreyB
    In Case Studies, Patent Intelligence, Prior Art Search
    Posted February 16, 2016

    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 [...]

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    Why You Need A Strong Prior Art Search?
    By Team GreyB
    In Patent Intelligence, Prior Art Search
    Posted February 6, 2016

    Why You Need A Strong Prior Art Search?

    Are all prior art searches equal? No. Some only apply to the United States. Some will also include foreign patents. And others will include searching for non-patent literature. As the focus of [...]

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    A Patent Prior Art Search is More Than Just Providing References!
    By Team GreyB
    In Case Studies, Patent Intelligence, Prior Art Search
    Posted January 29, 2016

    A Patent Prior Art Search is More Than Just Providing References!

    Time and again, the prior art searches we conduct teach us new lessons. These lessons not only help us add new rules to our little black book of prior art searching but also point us to the true [...]

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    Patent Invalidation Search – University Publications as a Source of Non-Patent Literature
    By Team GreyB
    In Patent Intelligence, Prior Art Search
    Posted January 6, 2016

    Patent Invalidation Search – University Publications as a Source of Non-Patent Literature

    You may attest to the fact that a lot has already been written and discussed on the importance of searching in non-patent literature when performing a prior art search. However, not much (almost [...]

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    Patent Invalidation – Why to Consider Images in a Prior Art Search?
    By Team GreyB
    In Patent Intelligence, Prior Art Search
    Posted November 27, 2015

    Patent Invalidation – Why to Consider Images in a Prior Art Search?

    How do I find a hidden prior art? – Doesn’t this question bug everyone when we conduct an invalidation search? While some of us try new strategies to excavate one, others explore patent [...]

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    Do You Know How We Think Internally?
    By Team GreyB
    In Culture
    Posted September 22, 2015

    Do You Know How We Think Internally?

    At GreyB, We are very proud of how we perform the invalidity search internally and at the same time very vocal about our attitude of ‘If it exists we are going to find it’. There is a lot of work [...]

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    Invalidating a Composition Patent? This is how we did.
    By Team GreyB
    In Case Studies, Patent Intelligence, Prior Art Search
    Posted February 2, 2015

    Invalidating a Composition Patent? This is how we did.

    OBJECTIVE The patent under study was related to a cigarette filter having gas adsorbing material and certain specific composition requirements. Our objective was to invalidate the patent [...]

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    Invalidation Search – How We Cracked The Toughest Case We Came Across?
    By Team GreyB
    In Case Studies, Patent Intelligence, Prior Art Search
    Posted February 2, 2015

    Invalidation Search – How We Cracked The Toughest Case We Came Across?

    We received a request from a client to invalidate a patent that is related to the concept of a random access procedure. More specifically, the patent was talking about a specific equation. [...]

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    How we Invalidated a Wireless Communication Patent using Standards?
    By Team GreyB
    In Case Studies, Patent Intelligence, Prior Art Search
    Posted February 2, 2015

    How we Invalidated a Wireless Communication Patent using Standards?

    OBJECTIVE The patent that we received from the client was related to Wireless communication and covered the process for handling lower priority communication traffic. STORY This time, we thought [...]

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    Invalidation Search – How to find better results than an examiner during prosecution?
    By Team GreyB
    In Case Studies, Patent Intelligence, Prior Art Search
    Posted February 2, 2015

    Invalidation Search – How to find better results than an examiner during prosecution?

    OBJECTIVE:  We had to invalidate a patent related to an audio player that had one important feature. Also, the client wanted to make his position stronger in the Inter Partes Review. STORY: This [...]

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