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Monitor Patent Applications and Portfolios From All Angles

A lot of time and energy is spent on patent monitoring. From monitoring for patent prosecution updates to monitoring the relative strength of patent portfolios over time, staying consistently up to date gives patent practitioners the power to keep their patent...

Take Control of the Patent Process

The patent process is rife with uncontrollable variables that are material to the outcome of patent prosecution—the most illustrative example is the predisposition of the patent examiner assigned to the case. The ability to manage and operate in uncertainty is a mark...

LexisNexis TotalPatent One® Enhancements Now Available

Patents can be among a company’s most significant assets. In order to protect, develop and maintain these valuable assets, IP professionals and researchers need a patent research tool that yields both complete and relevant content from authorities across the globe....

A Conversation With the Commissioner for Patents: Part 2

Earlier in 2020, LexisNexis® IP was honored to have USPTO Commissioner for Patents Drew Hirshfield join a webinar panel to discuss the state of the United States patent office. In our recent article, “A Conversation With the Commissioner for Patents (Part 1),” we...

A Conversation With the Commissioner for Patents: Part 1

If there is anything positive to say about the year 2020, it is that it has been a year of deep reflection with a desire to improve in all aspects of our lives. In the darkness of a global pandemic and a state of social unrest, opportunities have arisen to revise our...

Five Stages for Patent Efficiency

Patent applicants and professionals are in for the long haul when they enter patent prosecution, which typically unfolds over the course of several years. The silver lining of the lengthy patent process is that each subsequent stage presents an opportunity to use...

Myths of Litigated Patents: On-Demand Webinar

How to Easily and Objectively Prove Where Your Firm Outperforms the Competition

Market your firm to its fullest potential to prospective clients and earn more business from current clients with credible, third-party, objective data. Showcase your areas of expertise with the proprietary LexisNexis PatentAdvisor Efficiency Score™ and...

Patent Analytics for Predictions, Performance and Evaluations: Part 2

Click Here to Read Part One of This Series Patent analytics have opened the door for patent prosecutors and patent applicants to evaluate their patent examiners based on a variety of USPTO patent statistics. This allows them to develop superior patent prosecution...

How USPTO Examiner Type Affects Patents: Part 1

By Michael Sartori & Matt WelchLaw360 (May 15, 2020, 5:32 PM EDT)Patent procurement at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is affected by the type of examiner. We gathered data from the LexisNexis PatentAdvisor database for each year from 2009 to 2019, for...

Patent Drafting Tools: Three Key Advantages

Patent practitioners may be able to work remotely in their pajamas from time to time, but, unlike their personal appearances, patent practitioners should keep their patent applications looking tiptop at all times. Much like a well-rounded grooming routine that can...

Opportunities to Win with Patent Analytics

There are plenty of opportunities to win throughout the patent process. It begins with winning a potential client’s approval, and it hopefully ends with winning a granted patent and the client’s satisfaction. Along the way, everyone wins if prosecution goes smoothly...

Fast Examiners; Slow Examiners; and Patent Allowance

Although we know that individual patent examiners can greatly affect an inventor’s chance to (1) get a patent at all and (2) get it in a timely way, there has been very little work determining how examiners are able to either delay or compact prosecution while still...

Assessing Patent Rights in a Global Market

Generally speaking, an integrated world is great for business. Currently the world is so integrated in terms of information exchange and logistics, that businesses based on opposite sides of the planet can easily share their resources, whether they be manufacturing...

Patent Analytics for Predictions, Performance and Evaluations: Part 1

Patent analytics have opened up opportunities to implement patent prosecution strategies that greatly improve your chances of obtaining a patent in less time and at a lesser cost. We continue to make great strides in optimizing those strategies with the development of...

Four Reasons to Search with a Global Mindset

The world is the same size it has always been, but it definitely feels smaller. We are united by information, which has drastically increased the need to approach patent searches with a global mindset. If your patent searches are still being limited to only a few...

Impact of USPTO Examiners on Prosecution Outcomes: On-Demand Webinar

There is wide examiner variability at the USPTO, understanding this and how it affects the prosecution process and outcomes is of the utmost importance for patent practitioners. Discover the impact of the type of examiner by exploring important milestones in the life...

Linking Patent Data and Scientific Research: The innovation accelerator that we have all been looking for

By Matthijs van der Pol and Jorda ZuurendonkGeorge Tsatsaronis is vice -president of data science research content operations at Elsevier®. In his vision, patent data and scientific research are two sides of the same coin. If these two disciplines are combined in an...

A Conversation with the Commissioner – A Look Inside Patent Processes at the USPTO: On-Demand Webinar

Join us for a discussion that focuses on the patent classification system, how applications are routed to art units, how applications are assigned to patent examiners and much more about the processes at the USPTO. For this webinar, we have pulled together a stellar...

From the IP department to the boardroom – How IP intelligence and data analysis will enable commercially focused decision making – Webinar Recording

Ask any manager within your organization what he or she would need in order to ensure future growth of the company, and odds are that most of the answers will evolve around Data Intelligence. It’s the common consensus: data is this century’s treasure. But what is the...

Market Your Firm to its Fullest Potential with the New LexisNexis PatentAdvisor® Benchmarking Reports™

Market your firm to its fullest potential to prospective patent clients and earn more business from current patent clients with credible, third-party, objective data. Showcase your areas of expertise with the proprietary LexisNexis PatentAdvisor® Efficiency...

From the IP Department to the Boardroom – How IP intelligence and analytics helps top-level decision makers – Webinar Recording

Join IP experts across Israel in a discussion about the value of IP data and the inevitable evolution of the IP role within corporations. Topics that will be discussed: How patent analytics can help with (past and present) M&A evaluation and validation The role of...

How China’s Intellectual Property System Is Changing Global IP: Part 2

In Part 1 of “How China Is Changing Global IP,” patent experts analyzed China’s intellectual property overhaul, which resulted in China becoming a leader in world patent filings and technological research and development. Now, Chinese patent filings make up an...

Using the Patent Asset Index™ for Company Portfolio Evaluations

Company portfolio evaluations can inform key business decisions in a variety of ways, but the task of analyzing a patent portfolio is not as simple as it seems. In addition to considering straightforward, objective patent portfolio information, such as the total...

IP Landscape for Machine Learning Patents

What is an IP Landscape?An intellectual property landscape is a thorough overview of current patents and practices in any technical space. By providing references, documentation, and a holistic view, an IP landscape can show potential for legal validity and inform...

Uncovering Cost Savings in Your Portfolio Through Advanced Patent Analytics

The beauty of patents is that they give patent owners an opportunity to prosper from their inventions, and reward them for their hard work and contributions to the world. Although patents fuel innovation and are often lucrative for patent holders, there are times when...

Dissecting the Alice Case: Six Years in the Making

It has been six full years since the decision in Alice Corp. v CLS Bank, 134 S.Ct. 2347 (2014), which shook the world of United States patent law and left many patent owners, examiners and practitioners reevaluating their views on what is patentable. Since Alice, the...

Patent Prosecution Costs: Strategies for Getting Better Patents for Less

Technology is wonderful when it saves you money, and the patent process is ripe with inefficiencies that can be treated with patent data and analytics. Based on our past webinar titled “Reducing Patent Prosecution Costs Using Patent Analytics,” here are a few ways you...

How Classification Works at the USPTO: Targeted Drafting to Influence Prosecution Outcomes

“Targeted drafting”—drafting a patent application to place it into a specific art unit—is possibly the most important part of patent prosecution strategies that few patent practitioners think about. Every patent application’s assignment to a USPTO art unit is a...

How China’s Intellectual Property System Is Changing Global IP: Part 1

In a recent LexisNexis® IP webinar “How China is Changing the Global Patent System,” patent experts analyzed the enormous effort China has put into the evolution of its intellectual property systems. China has made rapid progress in just months, compared to the...