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From the IP Department to the Boardroom – 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
How USPTO Classification Works: 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...
How USPTO Examiner Type Affects Patents – Webinar Recording
What you’ll learn in this webinar: Types of Indefiniteness Learn about the types of problems that patent applications face and what patent practitioners should do. Nautilus and Its Progeny Get a look inside the Nautilus, Inc. ruling and a view of where we stand today...
Overcoming Patent Examiner Variability: Three Key Takeaways
Understanding how the patent process works, all the way down to the level of individual behaviors, opens up so many opportunities for better patent prosecution outcomes. USPTO patent data and analytics allow us to not only see the variability in the behaviors of...
Win New Business with the PatentAdvisor Efficiency Score™
Patent data and analytics now play an important role in helping law firms win new business. Firms can now quantify their performance against the patent office using USPTO patent data, and highlight their most favorable patent metrics to earn a prospective clients...
Evaluating Outside Legal Counsel: Best Methods
Companies and their in-house counsel face many challenges when working with outside legal counsel. To begin with, choosing the right patent law firm to work with is trickier than one might expect. Not only do law firms often specialize in a specific field or...
How Classification Works at the USPTO and the Implications for Software Patents and Computer Related Innovations – Webinar Recording
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...
Patent Application Targeting: How to Achieve the Best Classification Outcomes – Webinar Recording
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...
Patent Issuance: A Road Map to Success
There is no doubt that patent professionals gain a better understanding of patent examiners as they interact with them over time—they learn how to more effectively read and interact with the individuals who will eventually cast judgment on their patent applications....
How USPTO Examiner Type Affects Patents
By Michael Sartori & Matt WelchOriginally published on Law360.comMichael Sartori, a partner, and Matt Welch, an associate at Baker Botts, LLP used data from LexisNexis PatentAdvisor® to complete an analysis on ten years of examiner data from the eight non-design...
The Medical Ventilator Market and Patent Protection
A major contributor to the severity of the COVID-19 crisis is that medical providers simply do not have enough ventilators to meet current patient needs. Individuals with COVID-19 who develop breathing difficulties often rely on mechanical assistance to receive the...
A History of Diseases Triumphed by Innovation
The world is a scary place right now as we all watch the global COVID-19 pandemic continue to grow and impact the lives of everyone. Between the social distancing and relentless media coverage, it is easy to fall into a place of worry and sadness. While we are all...
How to Search a Patent Idea To Match Company Needs
Patent searches provide value beyond their use in patent prosecution—they tell stories of business and innovation, both past and future. When properly tailored to a specific need, the stories told by patent search results help companies and professionals to: gain a...
How Classification Works at the USPTO and the Impact on Prosecution Outcomes – Webinar Recording
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...
Three Inventions Helping Slow the Spread of COVID-19
Drastic measures to slow the spread of COVID-19 have already been implemented around the globe, including forced closures of “non-essential” businesses and “shelter-in-place” orders issued by many state and local governments. While reducing the amount of contact...
Patent Analytics and the World’s Top Three Most Innovative Companies
By Eric Snustad Innovation is the lifeblood of any patent system, and in our recent Global Innovation Ranking: Top 100 World’s Most Innovative Companies webinar, we took a look at the organizations that are leading the way into the future. Using the LexisNexis®...
How To Objectively Measure Prosecution Performance – Webinar Recording
Patent News: Hall of Fame Inventors Earn Their Place in Patent Prosecution
Innovation is something to celebrate, and the same goes for those individuals who bring innovation to life. Each year, the National Inventor’s Hall of Fame® (NIHF) recognizes a handful of inventors whose patented inventions had a significant impact on the world. Since...
Patent Management – Uncovering Cost-Savings in your Portfolio – Webinar Recording
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...
Up for the Challenge: How Patent Search Tools Eliminate Common Search Issues
By Eric SnustadPatent prosecution is a challenging process, but technology helps to remove many of the obstacles that are commonly faced. In the patent search phase of the patent process, patent professionals commonly struggle to search broadly enough to obtain the...
Reducing Prosecution Costs Using Patent Analytics – Webinar Recording
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...
Webinar Series: Working With You as You Work From Home
As the impact of COVID-19 unfolds, all of us are being challenged with adapting to new ways of working and living. This webinar series covers strategies on saving time and becoming more efficient during this unprecedented period. The new "normal" of everyone needing...
Visual Learning: A Guide for Patent Professionals
Visual learners are those who understand information better when they can see it. While not everyone considers themselves “visual learners” (more so than any other sort, anyway), visual learning is, to varying degrees, a helpful tool for most of us. Visual elements...