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When Patent Applications Linger In Prosecution
Bad things happen when patent applications linger in prosecution for too long. Patent applications tend to get stuck between filing and issuance only when significant obstacles arise. Obstacles, such as office actions issued by the patent office, are costly and can be...
How Net Zero Energy Research Translates Into Real-World Applications
In a recent webinar, we discussed our analysis of current and projected worldwide innovation and investment trends spurred by the United Nations–endorsed “net zero” mandate to zero out greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Net zero will be a significant driver of both...
A Boutique Law Firm Delivers High-Value Due Diligence at Speed Using LexisNexis® PatentSight®
The Effects of Efficient Patent Drafting
Patent prosecution is a marathon that demands quality performance every step of the way. The way patent professionals approach the many hours they spend on patent searches, prior art analyses, and patent application drafting has implications that can last for years...
Celebrating World Intellectual Property Day 2022: IP and Youth Innovating for A Better Future
Business and technology themes typically drive IP and innovation conversations. We seek to answer questions like, what does this mean for the bottom line or the race to exclusivity? But there is no more critical forward-looking focus than how IP plays a role in...
Pop Culture Patents: The Modern Space Race
The modern space race looks much different than its predecessor. Rather than a battle among government superpowers, the competition to travel even further into space is now being led by the private sector. Innovative, big-dreaming billionaires have taken the reins and...
A Perspective on Artificial Intelligence Patent Applications
The topic of artificial intelligence (AI) is practically inescapable these days. AI broadly refers to technologies and systems comprised of software or hardware that perform tasks and iteratively improve themselves based on the information they collect. Regardless of...
COVID-19 Effect on Pharmaceutical Innovation
By: Sarbani Chattopadhyay, Consultant, Customer Success, LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions As the world reaches the 2-year milestone of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have witnessed remarkable developments in efforts to fight the virus. Whether in the form of...
Who Is Developing Sustainable Technologies?
With the rising emphasis on sustainability across all sectors of business and a growing need for ways to track and measure sustainable development and impact, we tapped into the global patent data housed in LexisNexis® PatentSight® for an unprecedented worldwide view...
What To Do After a Final Office Action
Patent professionals can only argue with their patent examiners for so long before an examiner issues a "final" office action. Fortunately, receiving a final office action does not mean the end of hope for patent applicants. Filing either a Request for Continued...
Moderna, Nike and TSMC among pandemic-era outperformers in patent portfolio strength
This article was originally published on IAM. Top pharmaceutical and chip companies are among the patent owners who have gained the most momentum in terms of patent portfolio strength over the past two years, according to a new report from LexisNexis Intellectual...
The Rise of Social Media Selling in China Reveals New Brand Protection Threats
By Xinyao Liu, Online Brand Protection Consultant The Rise of Social Selling and Brand Abuse in China The concept of social media selling isn’t a new one. Social selling allows brands to find prospects on social media and build a relationship with a network of...
Anticounterfeiting Action: How the EUIPO is Powering More Protection for Rights Holders
By Francesca Tocco, Online Brand Protection Consultant, LexisNexis Online Intellectual Property Solutions As part of an international team that works with brands and brand owners to help them protect their valuable IP and provide a safe online shopping experience for...
5 Highlights from the Inaugural “Innovation Momentum” Report
Last month, we published the inaugural edition of “Innovation Momentum 2022: The Global Top 100,” a report developed to spotlight true technological contemporaries across industries. With a new, unique methodology supported by data analysis from patent analytics...
Use Patent Alerts to Protect Your Time
Stephen R. Covey, the author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, once said that "[w]e accomplish all that we do through delegation—either to time or to other people." Naturally, it is important to reserve our valuable time for the tasks that require our...
3 Reasons Companies Should Monitor Competitors’ Patent Filings
The ability to compete in the market is key to any company's survival, and many use patents to gain an upper hand. Diligent companies not only focus on their own patent filings but also track their competitors' filings to help ensure their longevity and prosperity....
NEW: Access Examiner Analytics from the USPTO PAIR and Patent Center Websites
Researchers and consumers expect quick, easy access to information and items via intuitive interfaces. Similarly, software developers constantly grapple with the concept of "friction" when trying to design a pleasant user experience. Simply put, friction is anything...
LexisNexis®️ Introduces LexisNexis PatentAdvisor®️ Extension, Free Web Tool to Display Patent Examiner Stats on USPTO Websites
New web browser extension makes USPTO examiner and art unit statistics available to any patent professional, integrated directly into their patent prosecution workflow23 February 2022, New York, United States — LexisNexis® Legal & Professional today announced the...
On-Demand: What You Can Learn From the Worlds Leading Innovations
Patent Analysis Tools for Intellectual Property Counsel
Whether you work as in-house or outside intellectual property counsel, patent portfolio management tends to be an area ripe for improvement. Managing many patent projects and the work of multiple patent professionals is inherently challenging when you don’t have the...
Apply Qualitative Data to Your Patent Prosecution Strategy
Patent professionals have long benefited from data driven insights to guide the prosecution strategy and deliver positive outcomes, however this data focuses on events that happened during prosecution and does not give insight into qualitative aspects such as how...
Three Obstacles to Overcome for Efficient Patent Searches
Determining the patentability of an invention is notoriously difficult. Not only do patent professionals need a firm grasp on applicable patent laws and procedures, but they must also be able to sift through and understand an abundance of information to determine how...
5 Advantages of Mapping Patents to the UN Sustainable Development Goals
While there are obvious benefits to tracking and measuring sustainable innovation—like bringing more transparency to one of our world’s most pressing topics—what other advantages does mapping patents to the UN Sustainable Development Goals bring to businesses? From...
Integration of Automation in the Patent Process
Automation has come a long way in a short amount of time, thanks to developments in big data, machine learning, robotics and the Internet of Things. Many people and businesses have grown accustomed to having software and machines perform tasks that humans once...
The Innovation Momentum 2022 Report Reflects Critical Global Topics and Highlights the Most Innovative Regions of the World
In a brand-new intellectual property report, we’ve revealed a unique methodology capturing the Innovation Momentum of the last two years and recognizing technology companies with exceptional technological relevance for the future and those outperforming their...
LexisNexis® acknowledges the world’s outperforming companies with its “Innovation Momentum 2022: The Global Top 100” report
“Innovation Momentum 2022: The Global Top 100” is the first patent-based report to measure short-term innovation momentum, recognizing innovators with exceptional technological relevance for the future and outperforming their peers.19 January 2021, New York, United...
How Ex Parte PTAB Decision Data Helps to Streamline Prosecution Processes
A distinguishing strength of a good patent practitioner is the ability to analogize or discern similarities. The problem is that finite hours are available for sifting through thousands of pages of online resources to find the needed information. This is where help...
LexisNexis® further champions the needs of patent professionals with new high-value dataset supporting more accurate and relevant prosecution guidance
LexisNexis® introduces new legal issue analysis for PTAB ex parte decisions in LexisNexis PatentAdvisor®, enabling search issue-tagged decisions and locating effective arguments at every interaction with the USPTO.11 January 2022, New York, United States – LexisNexis®...
Everything You Need to Know About 11/11 Aka Singles Day—The World’s Most Popular Online Shopping Day
11/11, November 11th started as an unofficial holiday in China to celebrate single people. The holiday is referred to as Singles Day, Bachelor's Day, and double 11. In Chinese, a single person with no branches to the family tree resembles the numeral "Asian...
Performance Checks to Provide Better Patent Services
Improvement is iterative. It often arises from an accumulation of small changes that stem from experience and self-awareness. Before making changes, one must first be aware of steps that will likely lead to better results. Performance checks help to identify issues to...