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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 [...]

Stephen King once said, “Good books don’t give up all their secrets at once.” Some books are written in such a way that the more times you read them, the more secrets you uncover. One of those [...]

Patent landscapes have been in the IP industry for a very long time and have been majorly used to track the number of patent filings, the number of competitors, the number of collaborations and [...]

“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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

If you are a high-level executive working in the automobile industry, you would quip – “The times are tough”. The COVID-19 pandemic has hit the industry hard. Every company is holding onto its [...]

Imagine – You have hit upon a really good idea, which has a ton of potential. You start working on it with the product development team and invest millions of dollars on the R&D. Because you [...]

Law firms and Feedback — Multiple pieces of research on the subject have shown that there are extremely minimal chances that a client would stick to a  law firm if proper feedback is not taken on [...]

The choice of patent databases highly depends on the motive beneath it, or in other words, the type of patent search involved. For instance, for a prior art search that is for current litigation, [...]

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One of the major concerns for corporations is how to sell their undervalued patents. Another concern they face is to increase the value of their good patents as thousands of good patents get [...]

Blockchain, with its emergence, has brought companies of several domains on their doors and one of those domains is telecommunications. As communication service providers are openly accepting the [...]

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 [...]

An examiner of USPTO hosted an AMA (Ask Me Anything) session on Reddit where he and Reddit users discussed multiple patent-related topics. For the uninitiated, AMA or Ask Me Anything is a feature [...]

9 out of 10 patents fail to generate value for their respective owners. These patents don’t get implemented in products, nor they find any licensing opportunity in their lifetime.   Does that [...]

The push to develop solar cells with higher efficiency and lower manufacturing cost has never been more urgent than today when the climate changes are escalating. The Sun in an hour provides [...]

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 [...]

While working in the IP industry, I got a chance to work with a lot of corporate patent counsels from SMEs to Fortune 500. I learned that the job and responsibilities of an IP counsel are way [...]

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 [...]

For big companies with active R&D departments, keeping track of the many thousands of individual patents that often make up their patent portfolios frequently represents a daunting task, the [...]

“I don’t think there exists a solution for the problem” Whether you’re a researcher, an analyst, an attorney, an engineer, or anyone that requires a lot of analytical thinking in their [...]

Claiming what you haven’t invented can get you a patent granted. Surprised? Well, this could be true. Want to find out how? Read on: First of all, let me shed some light on what a Negative [...]

Knowing the expiration date of a patent is important for multiple reasons; A key reason being that an expired patent goes into the public domain, which means everyone can now freely practice it. [...]

“Don’t find customers for your products, find products for your customers”. – Seth Godin. Tell me one thing – Would you buy the product you are selling to your customer if the positions get [...]

In our last post, we discussed the five breakthroughs in the propulsion system. In the current post, we will walk you through four new ground-breaking technologies that will take the air [...]

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

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]