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Overcome Variability at the USPTO with the Examiner Lottery Framework™
For decades, patent professionals have been working under the assumption that all patent examiners at the USPTO behave more or less the same way or that there may be some variability across different art units. But when it comes down to the examiners...
Sounding the Alarm for Superior Patent Examiner Metrics
Most patent statistics only tell a small part of the overall story. For example, the most heavily relied upon patent prosecution metric is a patent examiner’s allowance rate. Each examiner allowance rate communicates the percentage of patent applications an examiner...
Three Ways to Enhance Your Design Patent Searches
LexisNexis TotalPatent One® is a one-stop shop for design patent searches that can make things quicker and easier. Designers, artists, companies, and anyone who produces an aesthetically pleasing product should consider design patents. While utility patents protect...
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Webinars
Prosecution Trends: The Growing 101 Problem for Artificial Intelligence – Webinar Recording
The Alice/Mayo framework for determining patent eligibility has made it much more difficult to obtain patents in a variety of technology fields, but until recently the futuristic area of artificial intelligence (AI) related innovation was largely spared from dealing...
The Art of Responding to Obviousness Rejections – Section 103 and the KSR Guidelines – Webinar Recording
While much attention in recent years has been placed on patent eligibility – and rightly so – the truth is, obviousness remains the most important threshold for most innovations. Obviousness today is about predictability of results. Listen as Gene Quinn, founder and...
Webinar: Patent Drafting Best Practices – Latest Trends and Real World Realities
With the Federal Circuit looking to the specification hunting for an innovative concept and for an explanation about how the claimed invention is an improvement over the prior art, the written disclosures must be more robust to withstand increased scrutiny. Of course,...
Podcasts
#54: Shades of Red
Megan talks about deciding how to respond to a first office action. She discusses how the way you would respond to an office action without data can very often be different from the way you might respond with data. Better Patents Now Podcast ♫ MORE EPISODES ♫ Also...
#53: A Patent Examiner’s Take on ETA
In this episode, former patent Examiner Josh Rudawitz joins Megan to discuss the rationale behind ETA, PatentAdvisor's proprietary metric for examiner behavior. Josh weighs in on some of the reasons for ETA variations, both among and within art units. Better Patents...
#52: Inside Scoop with Former Patent Examiner Joshua Rudawitz
Megan interviews patent attorney Josh Rudawitz about his experience as a patent examiner. Josh discusses his career path at the USPTO and shares valuable insights about the level of autonomy granted to examiners at various points in their careers. Based on...
Just for Fun
Leveraging Patents to Shape the Future of Fitness
A look at the patent prosecution of fitness companies who are innovating for new ways to exercise. People are getting smarter about their workouts, and fitness technology is continually improving the way in which we push ourselves. There has been a boom in fitness and...
Patent Nostalgia and the Game Boy Comeback
The most reliable way to forecast Nintendo’s future may be to look at its own patent prosecution history. History repeats itself, but sometimes we have to wait for technology to improve before we can imitate the past. That is the story of Nintendo’s most recent...
Taking Coffee Delivery to New Heights
People need coffee and they need it now. International Business Machine Corporation (IBM) is doing what they can to reduce the number of tired eyes and heavy feet that move about each day. Here is a look at the IBM patent prosecution for coffee drone delivery. IBM was...
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Patent Workflow and InfoPros
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