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#41: Naughty Words in Pre-Grant Documents
Chris and Megan search through image file wrapper documents for oddities ranging from typographical errors to name-calling. Have you ever wondered how many times applicants lost their temper with the examiner on the record? Which art units issue the most...
Defensive Prosecution Monitoring with LexisNexis® PAIR Watch
Sports enthusiasts know that defense wins championships, but it is no less critical when it comes to business. Patent protection plays an essential role in any business's defensive strategy by preventing its competitors from making, using, or selling the valuable...
Reed Tech® Acquires PatentSight, a Provider of Analytics Solutions that Help Companies Monetize and Value IP Assets
Available in various languages: English | 中文 (Simplified Chinese) | 繁體中文 (Traditional Chinese) | Français (French) | Deutsch (German) | 日本語 (Japanese) | 한국어 (Korean) PatentSight provides technology-driven organizations access to unique data analytics to gain valuable...
#40: Top 5 Audibles in Patent Prosecution
Chris and Megan pinpoint 5 prosecution scenarios where a strategy change may be necessary in light of the statistics. Like football, prosecution is a back-and-forth between the examiner and the applicant that requires constant reevaluation. For example,...
Mixing Up Patent Prosecution With PatentAdvisor ETA™
LexisNexis PatentAdvisor® patent prosecution tools are consistently on the cutting edge of prosecution analysis and strategy. Patent practitioners with access to PatentAdvisor™ use actionable USPTO patent data to anticipate and react to prosecution obstacles with far...
#39: Experience Matters More Than You Think
Chris and Megan discuss the importance of examiner experience in shaping prosecution strategy. Experience level is one of the factors in the calculation of ETA, PatentAdvisor’s proprietary metric that predicts the probability and difficulty of allowance,...
#38: Analytics Behind “Stupid Patent of the Month” Blog
Chris and Megan dive into the prosecution histories of several patents featured on the Stupid Patent of the Month blog. The blog was created before Alice to shine the spotlight on (arguably) overbroad software patents, but even after Alice the authors have...
Webinar: What Color is Your Examiner – Red, Yellow or Green?
How to Customize Your Prosecution Strategy Accordingly What You’ll Learn in This On Demand Webinar EXAMINER BEHAVIOR What would you change about your prosecution strategy if you knew more about your assigned examiner’s behavior and could identify cases that require...
Exploring the “Vaping” Trend with LexisNexis TotalPatent One®
You have probably noticed that “vaping” has become extremely trendy and quite controversial due to its appeal to teenagers and the potential harm it causes to users. Yes, the puffs of white vapor that fill the air on sidewalks and other busy areas might be...
Maintaining Healthy Patent Portfolios
How healthy is your company's patent portfolio? Many large companies take a shotgun approach to patent prosecution - relying on numerous patent applications and sheer force to take each patent application from filing to grant. However, with so many...
What’s the ETA™? Enhancing Prosecution Performance with Innovative Patent Metrics
Technology has proven to be an excellent method of increasing the efficiency and quality of our patent processes. Whether providing a means to enhance the patent search process or to enable us to develop more effective patent prosecution strategies, patent tools now...
Pop Culture Patents: Walmart’s Pollination Patent Could Save the World
Walmart, the retail giant, has surprised everyone by facing a problem that has earned the world’s attention in recent years - the dying bee population. On March 8th, Walmart’s patent application titled “Systems and Methods for Pollinating Crops via Unmanned Vehicles”...
Webinar: The Patent Department of the Future
A perfect storm has caused in-house patent counsel to do more with less, lowering costs while increasing corporate asset value. If you continue to do things the way you always have, you could be...
The Pinnacle of Patent Search Evolution
Believe it or not, patent rights actually date back thousands of years to Ancient Greece. Not surprisingly, the patent system as it exists in the United States today is a much more recent development. When America was nothing more than a collection of colonies, there...
Challenging (In)Validity
Patent searches come in all shapes and sizes, and each search is designed with a particular goal in mind. Generally speaking, your patent searches can be categorized as either patentability searches, freedom-to-operate searches, or invalidity searches. Timing and...
LexisNexis PatentAdvisor® Announces a Revolutionary Metric for Patent Prosecution
LexisNexis PatentAdvisor®, at the forefront of patent prosecution analytics since 2012, now has a new examiner metric which is statistically proven to be the single best predictor of length of time for prosecution HORSHAM, Pa., March 12, 2018—LexisNexis® IP today...
Taking Patent Analytics to the Next Level
When Chris Holt created the "Examiner Allowance Rate" metric for what would become LexisNexis PatentAdvisor® over 10 years ago, it was a breakthrough innovation in the area of patent prosecution. For the first time, IP attorneys and other patent professionals had...
LexisNexis® IP Announces Promotion of Ethan Eisner to President
We are pleased to announce the promotion of Ethan Eisner to President; he officially assumed responsibility from Sam Hardman on March 1. Hardman retired after nearly 30 years of loyal service, 17 as President, and has agreed to continue to serve as a...
Pop Culture Patents: Samsung’s Flying Display
Launched initially as a trading company, South Korea’s Samsung has managed to innovate and reinvent itself time and again since being founded eighty years ago on March 1, 1938. Since it opened its doors, Samsung has survived and thrived throughout several phases of...
Finding Freedom to Operate
When inventions are conceived, one of the first actions people take is the performance of a patentability search to determine whether pursuing the invention could be fruitful. People tend to easily understand the value of a patent - they understand the amount of money...
Webinar: Drafting Quality Patents: Avoiding §112 Rejections
The value of a patent, for better or worse, is related to the likelihood that it could be successfully defended against challenges. In the past it was believed that there was safety in numbers. Today, higher quality patents are strategically preferable to collecting...
#37: The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis: Book Review
Chris and Megan discuss the sequel to Moneyball, in which Michael Lewis points out flaws in human decision-making that have applicability to patent prosecution. Like most experts, patent practitioners have inherent biases that can negatively impact their...
#36 Birth of the Ultimate Metric
Chris introduces Megan to a revolutionary way of measuring patent examiner behavior: PatentAdvisor ETA™. Unlike allowance rate, ETA™, provides an estimate of both the chances of and time to allowance. And because it is based solely upon the...
Data Analytics Take Flight in the 2018 Winter Olympics
The 2018 Winter Olympic Games are underway in PyeongChang and viewers are once again captivated as the world’s best athletes compete for Olympic gold. So much talent and patriotism is packed into only a few short weeks that it takes little time to get lost in the...
Pop Culture Patents: Coca-Cola’s Bottle Designs
The recipe for Coca-Cola is quite possibly the best-kept trade secret in the last century. It is also evidence that sometimes it is more valuable to keep product information confidential rather than to publish that information in exchange for patent protection. In...
TotalPatent One And The USPTO’s Seven Step Patent Search Strategy
Patent practitioners who have visited the USPTO’s website for information on searching for patents and published patent applications have likely stumbled upon the USPTO reference titled "The Seven Steps in a Preliminary Search of U.S. Patents and Published Patent...
Webinar: Patent Drafting: The Year in Review and a Look Ahead
This on-demand webinar is part of a series where patent experts in various core areas of the patent workflow discuss industry: Highlights over the past year Trends emerging for 2018 Use cases for...
Webinar: Patent Prosecution: The Year in Review and a Look Ahead
This on-demand webinar is part of a series where patent experts in various core areas of the patent workflow discuss industry: Highlights over the past year Trends emerging for 2018 Use cases for...
TC Heartland LLC v. Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC
In 2017, few patent cases created as much buzz as TC Heartland LLC v. Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC lawsuit. Decided by the Supreme Court on May 22, many are still waiting to see what the Court’s decision will mean for the future of patent litigation, and, more...
Four Reasons to Search In-House
Patent practitioners need to conduct patent searches to answer a variety of questions. Is my client’s invention patentable? Is my client’s product infringing someone else’s patent? Is my client’s competitor’s patent even valid? What does the patent landscape look like...