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Response to Office Actions—Weighing Options
Contrary to many clients’ perceptions, it is always open to interpretation whether an invention deserves patent protection. Every USPTO patent examiner is unique in their outlook and opinions, and have their own way of interpreting the patentability of a specific...
Use Patent Data to Understand USPTO Examiners
Getting to know someone is hard and getting to the level of really understanding someone takes even more effort . . . usually. When it comes to patent prosecution, patent data and analytics make the process to understand USPTO examiners easier than ever. Here are a...
Infographic: Traditional vs. Modern Online Brand Protection Technologies
Brands are built on trust. People need to feel assured that every interaction with your brand is 100% authentic, but that’s harder than ever to ensure. With eCommerce and social media permeating almost all aspects of our society, the online consumer base...
Upcoming Webinar: How Net Zero Energy Research Translates into Real-World Applications
On-Demand Webinar: Trends in Patent Prosecution: Don’t Get Left Behind
Anatomy of an Office Action: Reduce Client Costs with LexisNexis PatentOptimizer®
The idea that we should focus our attention on things that are within our control and worry little about the things that are not, is a philosophy that spans ages. It is also a philosophy that is particularly valuable in patent prosecution. Patent professionals have...
SDGs vs ESGs: What is the Better Measure of Sustainability?
As sustainability has become a top value indicator for investors and a key decision-making factor for consumers, companies are searching for effective ways to measure and prove their sustainable contributions. But with so many subjective interpretations of what...
How Patents Can Bring Transparency to Sustainability
Sustainability has fast become the world’s most critical initiative. Across the globe, companies are searching for strategies on how to identify, measure and prove sustainable contributions. In 2015 all United Nations member states adopted the 2030 Agenda for...
Quality Patent Searches with LexisNexis TotalPatent One®
It may sound outlandish but constructing and executing quality patent searches has a lot in common with erecting any physical structure. It is best to begin with a solid foundation in either scenario but, in the case of patent searches, the foundation’s quality...
Fashion, Social Media and eCommerce Collide with Counterfeiters
Social media has revolutionized so many facets of society and commerce. Created to connect people, brands quickly realized that these powerful tools were a natural fit for consumer engagement. These channels deliver a captive audience that comes specifically to each...
Excel at All Stages of the Patent Process and Become a Quadruple Threat
The best patent practitioners are quadruple threats who excel at all stages of the patent process. They provide value to their clients from before the conception of their patentable ideas all the way through patent prosecution. With modern patent analytics solutions...
Four Tips to Avoid or Handle Office Actions
Responding to an office action can cost patent applicants an average of $3,000. Naturally, both patent applicants and patent attorneys strive to avoid office actions whenever possible or, alternatively, handle them effectively and efficiently. LexisNexis® Intellectual...
Upgrade Your Design Patent Searches With LexisNexis TotalPatent One®
Utility patents get most of the attention in the patent world, but design patents come with unique advantages, and can be valuable additions to client patent portfolios. Unlike utility patents that protect the function or use of items, methods or processes, design...
On-Demand Webinar: How to Track and Measure Sustainable Innovation and Investments
When IP Meets Sustainability: Mapping Patents to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
By Marco Richter, Global Lead Product & Customer Success, LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions Once considered a matter for governments and international organizations like the United Nations (UN), sustainability is now unquestionably a topic of major...
LexisNexis launches new Sustainable Innovation Measurement framework enabling organizations globally to objectively track and report on innovation’s contribution to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
Industry-first alignment of patent data to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals framework revolutionizes sustainable innovation analysis.12 October 2021, New York, United States — LexisNexis® Legal & Professional is pleased to announce the launch of...
Patent Prosecution Analytics: No Longer Just a Nice to Have
In a recent webinar, the LexisNexis® Intellectual Property team offered patent practitioners several convincing reasons for integrating patent prosecution analytics into their processes. Patent data and analytics can be leveraged in many ways throughout patent...
Assess Performance and Conduct Objective Comparisons With Patent Metrics
Clients are the lifeblood of any law firm, but what can law firms do to grow their patent practices and set themselves apart from competing patent practitioners? Patent data is the key to improvement and growth in the patent world, and the LexisNexis PatentAdvisor®...
Prior Art Research
Conducting prior art research before filing a patent application can have a profound influence on patent strategies and outcomes. Not only can understanding prior art help to determine whether an invention is patentable, but it can also inform how a patent application...
Patent Analysis Tools for Objective Application Review
Why is it so hard to be objective when reviewing our work? For patent practitioners, a comprehensive, objective application review before it is submitted to the USPTO—a check on both substance and form—can help to avoid many headaches down the road. Yet, despite the...
The Rise of Systemic Abuse Networks
A version of this article originally appeared on Appdetex.com. It’s no secret brand abuse is on the rise. To get a clearer picture of the nature of this increase, Appdetex examined domain enforcement activity from a sample of their clients. They found that, on...
Patent Data Quality for Reliable Legal Opinions
Having access to accurate and complete patent data is imperative for any patent professional looking to provide exceptional service to their clients. When patent professionals provide counsel based on incomplete patent information, the reliability of their opinions...
Evaluate Patent Records Early in the Patent Process
Patent analysis is not just something to be done once throughout the patent process. Analyses of prior art references, patent drafts and patent examiner data all have their place and provide their own unique insights that help patent professionals better serve their...
On-Demand Webinar: Patent Prosecution Analytics: No Longer Just a Nice to Have
What you’ll learn in this webinar:Types of IndefinitenessLearn about the types of problems that patent applications face and what patent practitioners should do.Nautilus and Its ProgenyGet a look inside the Nautilus, Inc. ruling and a view of where we stand today with...
Four Tips to Stop Brand Abuse Ahead of 11/11
Singles Day, which takes place on November 11 (11/11), is a holiday in China for single people to celebrate their independent relationship status and lavish themselves with gifts. It is a massive day for retail and the most successful online shopping day in the world,...
Evaluate Patent Portfolios Based on Quantity and Quality
What is the best way to evaluate a patent portfolio? Do you take the phrase literally and evaluate a portfolio based on the number of patents it contains, or is there a better way? The LexisNexis® PatentSight® innovation analytics platform offers multiple tools and...
Use Modern Patent Search Tools for Better Results
It is easy to develop tunnel vision when doing the things that we do the most. It seems practical, whether consciously considered or not, to keep performing tasks the same way we always have rather than committing time and energy to exploring alternative solutions to...
Patent Tools for Avoiding Office Actions
Problems are generally much less costly to avoid than to fix. A simple oil change can help prevent a blown engine, and a green salad here and there can help prevent future disease. For patent practitioners, thorough planning and drafting can help prevent the issuance...
How Patents Became a Managing Board Agenda Item at Siemens
Have you ever wondered how leading companies integrate their IP activities into the innovation process and measure the quality of their patent portfolios? Beat Weibel, chief IP counsel at Siemens, explains why he chose to change the company’s patent strategy and how...
Five Insights From My Conversation With the USPTO Commissioner
By: Megan McLoughlin, Director of Prosecution Products, LexisNexis® IP | August 9, 2021Want some insider intel on what’s happening at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)? I recently had the opportunity to join a webinar panel with Gene Quinn of IPWatchdog®...