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    My Love for Music helped me find prior art in IEEE 802.16 standard. Let me tell you how.
    By GreyB
    In Case Studies, Patent Attorneys Blog, Patent validity check
    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. Like this one, and this. There are way too [...]

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    How we Performed Reverse engineering of an OLED Display to Confirm Infringement?
    By GreyB
    In Case Studies, Patent Invalidation
    Posted August 27, 2019

    How we Performed Reverse engineering of an OLED Display to Confirm Infringement?

    Did you know that an OLED is 200 times thinner than a strand of a human hair? The thickness of a strand of human hair is approximately 30 to 100 micrometers while that of an OLED is 100 to 500 [...]

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    Art of winning at IPR – Creating a stronger litigation strategy by attacking a problem from various angles
    By GreyB
    In Case Studies, Patent Invalidation, Patent Searching Tips
    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 GreyB
    In Case Studies, Patent Invalidation, Patent Searching Tips, Patent validity check
    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 publically accessible and that the [...]

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    The Case of winning an IPR at PTAB
    By GreyB
    In Case Studies
    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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    System Prior Art: Why we prioritize it over other references?
    By GreyB
    In Case Studies, In-House Counsels Blog, Patent Attorneys Blog, Patent Invalidation
    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 GreyB
    In Case Studies, Patent Attorneys Blog, Patent Invalidation
    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 GreyB
    In Case Studies, Patent Attorneys Blog, Patent Invalidation, Popular Strategies
    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 GreyB
    In Case Studies, Patent Attorneys Blog, Patent Invalidation
    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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    Invalidating a Composition patent: We collected all cigarette packs sold in Canada
    By GreyB
    In Case Studies, Patent Attorneys Blog, Patent Invalidation
    Posted November 20, 2018

    Invalidating a Composition patent: We collected all cigarette packs sold in Canada

    Not all prior art searches are run equal. 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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    Novelty search in Videos – My journey from having nothing to a relevant art
    By GreyB
    In Case Studies, Patent Attorneys Blog, Patent Invalidation
    Posted September 21, 2018

    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 [...]

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    How a Mobile App helped us find relevant Prior art in an invalidity search?
    By GreyB
    In Case Studies, Patent Attorneys Blog, Patent Invalidation
    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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    How to make Money from Patents When Reverse Engineering doesn’t confirm Infringement?
    By GreyB
    In Case Studies, GreyB's Thought Process, Patent Invalidation
    Posted August 3, 2018

    How to make Money from Patents When Reverse Engineering doesn’t confirm Infringement?

    Ever broke a phone by mistake? Feels bad, doesn’t it? Ever broke a phone knowingly. No. Well, we broke three of them. Three brand new, flagship smartphones. Why? Well, we were working on a [...]

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    How We found Prior Art in Non Patent Literature of University Publication?
    By GreyB
    In Case Studies, Patent Invalidation
    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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    How we found references in non patent literature without performing an NPL search?
    By GreyB
    In Case Studies, Patent Invalidation
    Posted December 1, 2017

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

    This August we celebrated our 10th year in the patent industry. It was amazing. Prior art search is a big part of the work we do. When we started, we were convinced that prior art searches should [...]

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    Prior art search – Four strategies that helped us find reference when finding it was next to impossible
    By GreyB
    In Case Studies, Patent Invalidation
    Posted September 26, 2017

    Prior art search – Four strategies that helped us find reference when finding it 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 are using concepts of 3G and GSM to invalidate a lot of 4G LTE Patents?
    By GreyB
    In Case Studies, Popular Strategies
    Posted May 19, 2017

    How we are using concepts of 3G and GSM to invalidate a lot of 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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    How We Helped Todd Figure Ways to Increase Carbon Content in Direct Iron Ore?
    By GreyB
    In Case Studies, Popular Strategies, R&D Case Studies
    Posted April 7, 2017

    How We Helped Todd Figure Ways to Increase Carbon Content in Direct Iron Ore?

    This case study would be very interesting for you if you are part of Steel industry. The researcher name, technology, and suggestions have been changed to maintain confidentiality but retain the [...]

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    How can you Improve Quality of Galvannealed Steel?
    By GreyB
    In Case Studies, IP Analytics
    Posted March 21, 2017

    How can you Improve Quality of Galvannealed Steel?

    The galvannealed coatings possess two most important qualities: Corrosion protection and High Surface quality, which makes them irreplaceable in numerous automotive applications, construction [...]

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    Who is Innovating in SmartWatches domain?
    By GreyB
    In Case Studies, IP Analytics
    Posted January 31, 2017

    Who is Innovating in SmartWatches domain?

    Gone are the days when a watch only used to tell time. Well, even today it does tell time, but with ever increasing multi-tasking requirements in ubiquitous technologies, it is quite obvious that [...]

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    Five Indicators that Can Help IP Counsels do Better in Prosecutions
    By GreyB
    In Case Studies, Patent Prosecution
    Posted January 11, 2017

    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 [...]

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    Generic drug of Pulmonary Artery Hypertension – Hurdles before Pharma Companies
    By GreyB
    In Case Studies, IP Analytics
    Posted September 30, 2016

    Generic drug of Pulmonary Artery Hypertension – Hurdles before Pharma Companies

    Macitentan is a drug by Actelion for the treatment of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH). It’s popularly known as Opsumit and delays progression of PAH which got approval from the FDA in [...]

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    The Hidden Gems in the Patent Portfolio of Singapore’s A*Star
    By GreyB
    In Case Studies, Patent Commercialization
    Posted August 16, 2016

    The Hidden Gems in the Patent Portfolio of Singapore’s A*Star

    A*Star is one of the entities with an exciting patent portfolio distributed across diverse applications. This was precisely the reason we picked it for our study on analyzing the potential of [...]

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    How we used Reverse Engineering to confirm patent infringement?
    By GreyB
    In Case Studies, Patent Commercialization, Popular Strategies
    Posted May 13, 2016

    How we used Reverse Engineering to confirm patent infringement?

    One of the major challenges faced by a patent licensing manager is to find and prove evidence of an infringement. Not so strong evidence of the use chart can become a standalone factor for the [...]

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    Why Image Analysis is Important in Prior Art Searches?
    By GreyB
    In Case Studies, Patent Invalidation
    Posted March 2, 2016

    Why Image Analysis is Important in Prior Art Searches?

    In today’s consumer-centric world, satisfying a clients’ need 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 GreyB
    In Case Studies, Patent Invalidation
    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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    A Prior Art Search is More Than Just Providing References!
    By GreyB
    In Case Studies, Patent Invalidation
    Posted January 29, 2016

    A 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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    Patentability Searches: How we Repeatedly Find a Needle in a Haystack
    By GreyB
    In Case Studies, Patent Prosecution
    Posted December 12, 2015

    Patentability Searches: How we Repeatedly Find a Needle in a Haystack

    I love patent search, not because I’ve expertise in the area or I find them easy to conduct, but because it helps me to make my contribution in making the patent world unambiguous. I get an [...]

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    Client Satisfaction – A Saying or An Experience
    By GreyB
    In Case Studies, GreyB's Thought Process
    Posted October 7, 2015

    Client Satisfaction – A Saying or An Experience

    We work on a lot of IP commercialization projects. If you ask, what is our motto when we are working on such projects, we would say: “At GreyB, we are committed to help our clients monetize their [...]

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    How we proved Patent Infringement when no Information was available?
    By GreyB
    In Case Studies, Patent Commercialization
    Posted February 27, 2015

    How we proved Patent Infringement when no Information was available?

    After hearing the word patent infringement, the first thing that comes to most analysts’ mind is finding product literature and mapping it with the patent. What comes to our mind, on the [...]

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    Invalidating a composition patent? This is how it’s done.
    By GreyB
    In Case Studies, Patent Invalidation, Popular Strategies
    Posted February 2, 2015

    Invalidating a composition patent? This is how it’s done.

    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 GreyB
    In Case Studies, Patent Invalidation
    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 random access procedure. More specifically, the patent was talking about a specific equation. Actually [...]

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    Invalidating patents using Standards – Let us tell you how
    By GreyB
    In Case Studies, Patent Invalidation, Popular Strategies
    Posted February 2, 2015

    Invalidating patents using Standards – Let us tell you how

    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 GreyB
    In Case Studies, Patent Invalidation
    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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    Success Stories of our Sherlocks in Finding Prior Art

    1. System Prior Art: Why We Prioritize It Over Other References?

    2. 3 Instances Where We Invalidated Patents Infringed Under ITC Section 337

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

    4. How We Found Prior Art In Non Patent Literature Of University Publication?

    5. How We Found References In Non Patent Literature Without Performing An NPL Search?

    6. Prior Art Search – Four Strategies That Helped Us Find Reference When Finding It Was Next To Impossible

    7. How We Are Using Concepts Of 3G And GSM To Invalidate A Lot Of 4G LTE Patents?

    8. How We Used Pattern Recognition To Find An Unsearchable Prior Art

    9. Invalidating Patents Using Non Patent Literature – A Valuable Source Of Prior Art

    10. A Prior Art Search Is More Than Just Providing References!

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