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Advanced Patent Analytics – Taking a Look into the Digital Crystal Ball – Webinar Recording
Almost like a glance into the crystal ball.Advanced patent analytics reveal competitors years before market entry. Listen as Gene Quinn, founder and president of IPWatchdog.com, and Marco Richter, Head of Consulting & Customer Success at LexisNexis PatentSight as...
Infographic: Examiner Lottery Framework™
The future of patent analytics has arrived. Are you ready? Patent examiner variability exists at every level of the Patent Office. Now you can easily see how the variability impacts your pending patent applications. The three proprietary new metrics in LexisNexis...
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...
LexisNexis PatentAdvisor® Rolls Out Examiner Lottery Framework™, A Suite of Analytics to Guide Your Patent Prosecution Strategy with the USPTO
Breakthrough analytics allow patent professionals to predict length of time for prosecution at both examiner and art unit level, as well as improve chances of “winning” the USPTO examiner lottery HORSHAM, PENN., JANUARY 14, 2019 -- LexisNexis® IP today announced the...
#55: Win the Patent Examiner Lottery
Chris and Megan remind leaders about the new proprietary metric, ETA (Examiner Time Allocation) and introduce two new deeper dive metrics. Before you file, these metrics will give you an understanding of your chances of "winning the examiner lottery" that will help...
Five Attainable New Year’s Resolutions for Patent Professionals in 2019
Another year has come and gone, but new patent products bring promise to 2019. If you are looking to improve in the upcoming year, LexisNexis® IP has resolved to help you in all aspects of the patent workflow by providing tools that are sure to help you meet your...
Seasons Greetings and Holiday Patents Worldwide
The most wonderful time of the year has arrived again. This week we dive into a breakdown of holiday patent applications filed around the globe and a few of the holiday patent applications published in recent years. Holiday Patent Breakdown Curious to know what types...
The Inside Scoop from a USPTO Patent Examiner
Only a handful of patent practitioners have seen the inner workings of the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Yet, having an understanding of a patent examiner’s experience at the USPTO can be of great value. Given time, patent examiners evolve in their...
Overcoming Examiner Variability in the Patent Office – Webinar Recording
Every patent practitioner knows that some examiners allow more patents than others, but most assume that the variability results from some combination of three factors: examiner experience, technology area and the merits of the applications brought before them. While...
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 Produce Quality Patents that Promote a Healthy Patent System
Our patent system is intended to cultivate an inventor-friendly culture that encourages innovation. After all, innovation is not only beneficial to inventors, but is also a benefit to the public as a whole by improving the world in which we all live. The system...
Six Thanksgiving Inventions That Can Enrich Your Meal-Time Experience
1) “Rotisserie Turkey Deep Fryer” - (US Application No. 15/923,578) Filing Date: March 16, 2018Published: September 20, 2018 This patent pending invention may look similar to other home fryers, but this patent application’s...
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...
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...
Five Election Patents that Shaped the Democratic Process
Midterm elections are now behind us and the nation has a restored our memory of the beauty and challenges that accompany our democratic processes. As great as our election processes are compared to those of many other nations, voting in the United States has always...
#54: Shades of Red
Chris talks with Megan about his recent experience deciding how to respond to a first office action. He discovered that his application has ended up with an examiner who has a high ETA (Examiner Time Allowance), indicating a slowness to grant patents....
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...
How to Effectively Respond to a 103 Rejection
Patent practitioners need to move beyond a one-size-fits all prosecution strategy. Every patent practitioner has been the victim of a 103 rejection that just will not go away. Getting a 103 rejection is both common—a vast majority of patent applications at the USPTO...
#53: A Patent Examiner’s Take on ETA
Having devoted years to developing examiner metrics that are both accurate and fair, Chris and Megan figured it made sense to ask for an examiner's perspective on his own ranking. In this episode, former patent Examiner Josh Rudawitz joins Chris and Megan...
How to Assess Your Request for Continued Examination
Historical patent data and patent analysis tools can help practitioners and applicants determine whether filing an RCE is a wise decision. Request a free two-day trial of LexisNexis PatentAdvisor® A patent practitioner may need to file a Request for Continued...
#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...
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,...
#51: Halloween: Be Very Afraid
In this Halloween-themed episode, Chris and Megan address situations in a prosecution that should make your hair stand on end. When something just doesn’t seem right, there may be a good reason to be afraid and take a deeper dive into the statistics. The...
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...
Fall Back into the Past
The LexisNexis TotalPatent One® patent search platform makes it easy for inventors and patent practitioners to reflect the world’s patent history. Summer is over, and fall is back again. It is time to enjoy falling leaves, warm seasonal drinks, and maybe a bonfire or...
#50: Nintendo Goes Green
Nintendo's IP portfolio is full of colorful patents--ranging from banana rubbing to rigging Mario Kart races. But equally interesting (at least, for patent data nerds) is the high percentage of applications that landed with green examiners. "Green"...
#49: Patent Prosecution Trainwreck
Chris and Megan review one of the longest prosecution histories recorded in public PAIR, for application number 05/849,812. Prosecution for application number 05/849,812 has spanned over 40 years, 19 Office Actions, and 7 appeals. For at least the past 20...
#48: ETA: The Ultimate Alarm System
Chris and Megan revisit their revolutionary metric for examiner behavior: ETA (Examiner Time Allocation). Although this new way of examining examiners has caught on quickly—and even inspired a few copycats—it has also sparked a lot of debate. In this...
Nintendo Patents for Improving Quality of Life
Who would have thought that waking up to Nintendo could be good for you? We will have to continue waiting patiently for the scientific community to prove the benefits of morning video games, but in the meantime, Nintendo Co Ltd. and Panasonic Corp. are...
Webinar: How Law Librarians Can Add Value to the Patent Prosecution Process
What you’ll learn in this webinar: THE PATENT PROSECUTION PROCESS A high level overview of the process and the most important decision points USING ANALYTICS AFTER THE FIRST OFFICE ACTION How to predict your assigned examiner's behavior and adjust your strategy...