Case Studies

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 inane. Though less often, there are instances [...]

Patent Infringement has become a lot common in the past couple of decades. With increased interconnectivity among technologies and millions of patents in existence surrounding these technologies, [...]

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

One of the major challenges faced by a patent licensing manager is to find and prove evidence of infringement. The lack of evidence of the use chart, in a majority of cases, becomes a standalone [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

It was another beautiful day at GreyB. I was reading this article on the Intel connection of Apple watch when an email landed on my Outlook, sent by my operation manager. The subject of the email [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]