IoT Trends: A look at some of the major happenings in IoT in 2020
Being a research company, we love exploring technology trends and digging up insights related to those technologies, and lately, we have been fascinated with telecom technologies, and in [...]
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Track recent patent assignments using GreyB’s assignment tracker
This assignment tracker helps you keep a track of recent assignment/reassignment activities happening in the US. The list provides the top 50 most recent patent assignments registered in the US [...]
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 [...]
The Technological Evolution in The Golf Industry
Sports – A major source of entertainment for centuries altogether has not yet witnessed a plunge in its popularity. In fact, with the evolution of technology, they have become more popular [...]
Where does the legal tech fit in your operations as a counsel?
To stay operational in times like this — when the Coronavirus epidemic is forcing offices to stay shut — is a challenge of unprecedented magnitude for all firms, big or small. [...]
How Patent assertion entities are good for Innovation and impact economy?
“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 [...]
Prominent Problems in Wireless Charging and Their Solutions
Note – The technology and client name have been modified to maintain confidentiality. Peter, a senior R&D manager at one of the fortune 500 companies were researching in the domain of [...]
Better Than Market Research: How Watchmakers Could’ve Used Patent Landscape Analysis to Predict the Smartwatch Boom
About ten years ago, traditional watchmakers—companies like Tag Heuer, Swatch, and Timex—entered dangerous waters. Tech firms were preparing to introduce the modern smartwatch—a grave threat to [...]
How IP Counsels’ Job is more than doing Prosecution, Litigation, and Portfolio Maintenance?
Digital Equipment Corporation, once a leader in the computer market for decades does not exist today. Why? Because they failed to grasp the trends. Instead of continuing in the direction of [...]
How a Competitive Patent Landscape Analysis helps IP Counsels make Better Decisions?
You will agree that a patent counsel’s job is not limited to patent prosecution, litigation, and maintenance only. A patent counsel wears multiple hats and plays a key role in strategic planning [...]
How a Patent Monetization Analysis Helped a Major Asian Telecom Company Prepare to Defend Patent Infringement Lawsuits in the U.S.
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 [...]
GreyV – GreyB’s first step in food industry
“Nothing brings people together like good food” Just like any other corner of the world, GreyB is filled with food lovers too. Our love for food is just like Jerry’s love for Cheese, Popeye’s [...]
Disruptive solution in 3D printing metal powder production technique
3D Metal printing powders need to have different properties for different applications such as particle shape and size, good flow, low oxygen content, and high oxidation resistance. Some of these [...]
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 [...]
Marijuana Research: How to set clear research focus and business goals?
In recent months, the legal Cannabis market has emerged as a hot topic of discussion among technology enthusiasts, as the market is emerging post-haste as more and more governments are legalizing [...]
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 [...]
Why is it important to check the strength of your patent?
Before we move ahead to the topic – importance of checking patent strength, for the uninitiated, here is a definition of the term: What is patent strength? Patent strength, in simplest terms, [...]
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Automobile companies, here’s why you should start investing in 5G R&D right now.
If you are working in the automotive domain and not taking 5G seriously, you might find yourself in troubled waters a few years down the line. You know all about V2X Communication. You also know [...]
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. [...]
The Race of Singapore to Become The Next IP Hub of Asia
As the global economy is becoming innovation-centric, growth today has become almost impossible without taking IP into consideration. Singapore, where the growth of IP sector is quite apparent, [...]
11 Hilariously Weird Patent Applications
Wanna know how we cope and stay sane amidst all the client requests and workload we handle daily? The answer is patents! Not trying to be sarcastic here, but while working on projects which [...]
Patent Commercialization: Are You Considering Non-Infringing Alternatives?
Often, parties involved in patent infringement lawsuits are either unaware or they often fail to consider non-infringing alternatives. However, non-infringing alternatives could be a game-changer [...]
A Framework to Extract ROI from Your Patent Portfolio
Companies should invest their time and resources into developing a diverse patent portfolio as it can act as a vast resource of revenue as well as provide a competitive advantage. In fact, every [...]
How and Why Companies Need to Strengthen Their Intellectual Property: 4 Powerful Strategies
At GreyB, companies often approach us with the broad objective of having us help them strengthen their IP position. It’s a challenge that incorporates elements of the three core IP research [...]
Smart Business Development for IP Law Firms: How to Get More Business from Existing Clients?
This is the second article of a 3 part series on Smart Business Development Strategies for IP Law Firms which explains strategies to get more business from existing clients. The first article [...]
Are All of your standard essential patents declared to ETSI?
Recently, we noticed that many companies, especially with big patent portfolios, may not be aware that some of the patents in their portfolio are getting delayed in being officially listed as [...]
Supply Chain Management: How to use Patents for Risk Mitigation and strategic negotiations?
Apple has suppliers in more than 30 countries around the world. GM, to produce the Chevy Volts, uses more than 800 suppliers. Businesses face many challenges – from natural calamities to man-made [...]
Which Companies were Researching in LiFi before Harald Haas?
In our last post of the LiFi series, we learned how LiFi Technology evolved in the past few years. We also learned how the companies are trying to make LiFi a household name. In this article, we [...]
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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 [...]