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You are an inventor. You have with great efforts secured a patent which has cost you a good quarter of your bank balance. You want to make the most out of your newly granted patent and decide to [...]

Here at GreyB, we, the editorial team, have an intense love for stories. We try to keep the storytelling animal inside us always at work – be it for sharing relevant strategies with the help of [...]

Ever since its launch in November 2004, Google Scholar has become an indispensable search tool amongst students, researchers, and legal practitioners around the globe. Be it for working on their [...]

Especially at young, fast-growing companies, there are few employees under more pressure than members of the Patent Review Board, or PRB—also known as a Patent Review Committee. Generally [...]

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 [...]

A wise person once said – Be wary of the startups launching in your industry. What sounds like an interesting idea with a small team working on it today can give all the giants a run for [...]

In the last article of this 3D metal printing powder study, we discussed the top three highly researched 3D printing metal powders. In this installment, we will discuss the top three highly [...]

Have you ever wondered how Apple, Samsung, and Microsoft emerged as market leaders, despite having thousands of competitors in the technology domain? The popular notion of their success is [...]

Smart Speakers have become quite the household commodity nowadays. Recently, I was working on a research study related to smart speakers, as a result of which I got to know a good deal about [...]

Last time we shared how Monika helped everyone learn a trick on Excel, this time Mahesh from the Search Team who prepares a lot of deliverables conducted the next activity. His objective was to [...]

In the US, litigation costs anywhere around USD 3-4 Million, with damages awarded, on an average being 8.9 Million USD. The highest award till date being $2.54 billion.  As I was reading through [...]

Imagine the world where you’d be clicking pictures on your Kodak DSLR and uploading them on Instagram with hashtag #KodakMoment while checking comments on the post on your revolutionary [...]

Have you come across a situation when the search vendor you hired returned with a report concluding “no reference found”? There could be multiple reasons that your vendor returns with such a [...]

There is a lot of research and implementation going on to provide solutions for the telecom industry using Blockchain technology. This study could give you an idea about the level of intensity in [...]

The interest of the companies in having a fortified patent portfolio (SEPs) is growing at the rate of knots. The R&D-Sales and R&D-Marketing departments of various companies are making [...]

If you are a person who deals with design patents, then we have written this article for you. This article highlights how conducting design searches using Google Image Search feature could throw [...]

“Patent trolls are bad for business.” “Patent trolls hurt innovation and US economy.” “Patent trolls are a threat to competitive markets.” “It’s time to kill patent trolls for good.” You have [...]

There are black holes in the space. Bananas grow on a tree. Red color irritates bulls. Fatwa stands for a death sentence. We evolved from chimps. You believe all of the above facts are correct, [...]

It’s that time of the year again! (Read: Feedback) As another quarter of the year comes to a close, it’s time to reflect and learn from experiences – which might include those little [...]

Do you know how smart devices work? They do many things even before you instruct them to do so. For example, Google Assistant can set a reminder automatically after reading your email about [...]

We all know the power a strong patent portfolio holds. However, when it comes to monetizing it, it’s not always a walk in the park. A list of target companies needs to be generated, infringement [...]

IP House, a research group of 30 IP professional set up in 2014, analyzed 5022 out of 5432 cases handled by the Beijing IP Court, one of the three specialized IP court of China. Out of these [...]

Since childhood, my parents have always been scolding me for being a big movie buff. It has been their favorite dialogue to tell me that these movies won’t support me in my future. It was a [...]

Patent litigation is greatly influenced by having an expert witness on your side. These expert witnesses provide testimony for infringement, validity, damages, etc.  As a patent litigator, you [...]

In the previous article, we talked about the research of Fujifilm in the skincare domain. While it’s a surprise for the skincare players, it could have been anticipated by analyzing the earlier [...]

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 [...]

BOS Insights is a section featuring insights/trends from our in-house tool BOS, which can help you in designing and picking appropriate patent monetization and acquisition strategies.  Short for [...]

Talk of budgets and the very first question that comes to the mind is — Given a certain amount of money, how much should be allocated to various expenses?   Should you abandon few patents from [...]