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PatentSight Analysis: Who has the best patents for machine learning?
A Patent Examiner’s Take on ETA
What might a USPTO examiner have to say about this new way to approach patent prosecution? The newest LexisNexis PatentAdvisor® metric has proven to be the most predictive patent metric yet. Each PatentAdvisor Examiner ETA™ helps patent professionals better...
Five Enticing Benefits of Automated Patent Monitoring
The importance of active patent monitoring cannot be stressed enough. Receiving critical information as early as possible affords patent applicants ample time to develop and implement patent prosecution strategies. Monitoring helps to keep an eye on competition, and...
How to Populate IDS Forms with LexisNexis PatentOptimizer®
Patent practitioners know that the time spent preparing paperwork before submitting a new USPTO patent application is by no means insignificant. To produce a complete and compliant patent application, patent professionals must turn a portion of their attention to...
Webinar: AIA Best Practices: A Holistic Approach to Patent Preparation and Prosecution
Listen as Gene Quinn, founder and president of IPWatchdog.com, John White, patent author, instructor and attorney and Mike Hudelson, Director of IP Product Planning, LexisNexis IP, discuss the new holistic approaches to harvesting and patenting innovation post-AIA....
How to Improve Patent Prosecution Strategy
The proliferation of data analytics tools has changed the way that patent practitioners approach their work. Many new features offered in these tools have greatly enhanced patent practice. In this article published in Law360, Eric Snustad, shareholder at Fredrikson...
Shades of Red: Using Patent Analytics to Overcome a “Bad” Examiner
Turn to the Patent Data While traditional patent statistics provide valuable information about your patent examiner, such as how many office actions she typically grants or the percentage of applications she has allowed to issue in the past, the best predictor of a...
RCE vs. Appeal: Four Considerations That Can Make All the Difference
The patent process is anything but predictable. The road to issuance can be bumpy as new challenges arise and patent practitioners are forced to make important prosecution decisions. Often, these decisions come about when an examiner issues a final office action. It...
The Most Comprehensive Full-Text Patent Data in English Is Now Available within LexisNexis® PatentSight®
Full-text patent data from LexisNexis® IP is now accessible in LexisNexis PatentSight, enabling customers to use a single platform to make smart strategic decisions based on advanced patent analytics HORSHAM, PENN May 15, 2019, LexisNexis IP has integrated its...
LexisNexis PatentSight® is a SIIA CODiE Award Finalist
LexisNexis PatentSight® has been named a finalist in the Best Big Data Reporting & Analytics Solution category of the 2019 SIIA CODiE Awards program. The SIIA finalists' page summarizes the analytics solution this way: PatentSight is an analytics platform for...
Webinar: Patent Drafting Tips for Avoiding and Arguing 112 Rejections
Listen as Gene Quinn, founder and president of IPWatchdog.com, Robert C. Ryan, partner with Holland & Hart and Todd Van Thomme, shareholder in Nyemaster Goode discuss the trends and reality of 112 disclosure requirements and responding to 112 rejections. 2-Minute...
3 Benefits of Automating Your Office Action Responses
Today’s practitioners face significant pressures that require a transformation from their previous methodologies. Successful patent attorneys are leveraging patent analytics to help increase efficiency, accuracy and consistency in their patent prosecution. LexisNexis...
Three Reasons PatentAdvisor Examiner ETA™ Is Better Than Allowance Rate
It was not that long ago that patent analytics changed the way patent professionals approach patent prosecution. The ability to access key USPTO examiner statistics has enabled professionals to adapt their prosecution strategies to their assigned examiner for improved...
Three Qualities that Make Quality Patents
Quality patents are assets to everyone. The patent system is at its peak when high-quality patents and patent applications make up the USPTO's archives. Inventors are incentivized to share their innovations with the world knowing they will be protected in doing so,...
PatentSight Use Case: The Early Identification of Disruptive Players with Advanced Patent Analytics
Spot disruptive innovations early on the shelves What if it was possible to spot disruptive trends early on, to prepare or even capitalize on the market shift? Apple has become a leader in the watch market within just 2 years. As with the iPad, iPod and Apple...
Who Has The Best Patents For Machine Learning?
The landscape of machine learning from a patent perspective A look at the machine learning patent landscape shows that Microsoft and Alphabet currently hold the most - and highest quality - patents. However, the data also shows that leadership positions can change...
Five Things to Look for in Choosing a Full-Text Patent Research Solution
Because the types of searches a user sometimes has to perform (Patentability/Novelty, Clearance/Freedom-to-Operate, Validity, State-of-the-Art and others) differs, a patent research tool—especially the content contained within it—needs to be “fit for purpose.” The...
No Dice for Casino Games Patent
On December 28, 2018, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld the USPTO’s rejection of a patent application titled “Casino Game and a Set of Six-Face Cubic Colored Dice” on the grounds that the patent application was directed at an abstract idea and...
Avoiding the Pitfalls of Bad Data In Prosecution Analytics
Patent data analytics is an invaluable tool for navigating patent prosecution as effectively and efficiently as possible, but it is important to remember that the data sets that will be most useful to you as a patent professional will change throughout the various...
Framing Your Patent Application for Easier Patent Prosecution
Patent practitioners often approach the patent process as if all patent examiners at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will examine their patent application similarly. In reality, though there are procedural and substantive guidelines that all...
Webinar: The Uneven Impact of Alice – A Tale of Different Software Innovations – Recording
Listen as Gene Quinn, founder and president of IPWatchdog.com, John White, patent author and attorney, Dr. Kate Gaudry, partner at Kilpatrick Townsend and Bob Stoll, partner at Drinker Biddle and retired commissioner of the USPTO discuss how the Supreme Court’s...
USPTO Profiles Women Inventors
In early February 2019, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) released a document titled “Progress and Potential: A profile of women inventors on U.S. Patents.” Packed with interesting information about how and where women inventors have contributed to...
Going Green for Improved Patent Prosecution
Everyone is going green! And in this case, “going green” has nothing to do with our planet. Ever since LexisNexis® IP launched PatentAdvisor ETA™, the most predictive patent prosecution metric yet, patent professionals are striving to have their patent...
Webinar: Drafting Software Patents: Lessons from Key Lighthouse Cases
Listen as Gene Quinn, founder and president of IPWatchdog.com, John White, patent author and attorney and Dr. Kate Gaudry, partner at Kilpatrick Townsend discuss how to adequately identify and describe a software-related invention to stand up to the scrutiny it will...
Top 5 Patent Search Questions
Common Client Questions and How Patent Searches Can Help Find Answers #1. "Can I make, use, and/or sell my product?" In all reality, your client may not have the foresight to ask, but a patent professional knows that launching a product without conducting a patent...
Patenting a Championship
Innovations that Made the Super Bowl Safer and Cooler Super Bowl LIII is in the books with a record-breaking win. Like every Super Bowl before it, this year’s NFL championship was a spectacle not only of talent, but also technology. Unlike past championships, this...
#57: Pro se what? A Deep Dive into Art Unit 3649
Inspired by a listener's question, Chris and Megan do a deep dive into art unit 3649: the “pro se” art unit. The USPTO created this art unit in 2015 to help guide pro se applicants—those who choose to represent themselves before the USPTO—through the...
Artificial Intelligence Patent Applications in the News
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is creating much excitement for numerous industries thinking of new products and services with patent applications increasing to the USPTO for AI-related inventions. Kate Gaudry, a partner at Kilpatrick Townsend and Stockton,...
#56: Put the “Lawyer” Back in Patent Lawyer
Patent practitioners typically turn to prosecution analytics to help them prosecute more efficiently. With the rise of fixed fees and a clientele that is constantly demanding more for less, there is significant pressure to complete tasks more quickly. But...
Webinar – Getting Past NO at the USPTO: The Mechanics for Speeding up Allowances
Listen as Gene Quinn, founder and president of IPWatchdog.com, Stephen Kunin, partner at Maier & Maier and Megan McLoughlin, product director, LexisNexis Patent Advisor® as they discuss strategic use of the Patent Prosecution Highway and drafting to steer your...
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...