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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...
Infographic: Examiner Lottery Framework™
The future of patent analytics has arrived. Are you ready? Patent examiner variability exists at every level of the Patent Office. Now you can easily see how the variability impacts your pending patent applications. The three proprietary new metrics in LexisNexis...
Overcome Variability at the USPTO with the Examiner Lottery Framework™
For decades, patent professionals have been working under the assumption that all patent examiners at the USPTO behave more or less the same way or that there may be some variability across different art units. But when it comes down to the examiners...
LexisNexis PatentAdvisor® Rolls Out Examiner Lottery Framework™, A Suite of Analytics to Guide Your Patent Prosecution Strategy with the USPTO
Breakthrough analytics allow patent professionals to predict length of time for prosecution at both examiner and art unit level, as well as improve chances of “winning” the USPTO examiner lottery HORSHAM, PENN., JANUARY 14, 2019 -- LexisNexis® IP today announced the...
#55: Win the Patent Examiner Lottery
Chris and Megan remind leaders about the new proprietary metric, ETA (Examiner Time Allocation) and introduce two new deeper dive metrics. Before you file, these metrics will give you an understanding of your chances of "winning the examiner lottery" that will help...
Five Attainable New Year’s Resolutions for Patent Professionals in 2019
Another year has come and gone, but new patent products bring promise to 2019. If you are looking to improve in the upcoming year, LexisNexis® IP has resolved to help you in all aspects of the patent workflow by providing tools that are sure to help you meet your...
Seasons Greetings and Holiday Patents Worldwide
The most wonderful time of the year has arrived again. This week we dive into a breakdown of holiday patent applications filed around the globe and a few of the holiday patent applications published in recent years. Holiday Patent Breakdown Curious to know what types...
The Inside Scoop from a USPTO Patent Examiner
Only a handful of patent practitioners have seen the inner workings of the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Yet, having an understanding of a patent examiner’s experience at the USPTO can be of great value. Given time, patent examiners evolve in their...
Overcoming Examiner Variability in the Patent Office – Webinar Recording
Every patent practitioner knows that some examiners allow more patents than others, but most assume that the variability results from some combination of three factors: examiner experience, technology area and the merits of the applications brought before them. While...
Sounding the Alarm for Superior Patent Examiner Metrics
Most patent statistics only tell a small part of the overall story. For example, the most heavily relied upon patent prosecution metric is a patent examiner’s allowance rate. Each examiner allowance rate communicates the percentage of patent applications an examiner...
Three Ways to Produce Quality Patents that Promote a Healthy Patent System
Our patent system is intended to cultivate an inventor-friendly culture that encourages innovation. After all, innovation is not only beneficial to inventors, but is also a benefit to the public as a whole by improving the world in which we all live. The system...
Six Thanksgiving Inventions That Can Enrich Your Meal-Time Experience
1) “Rotisserie Turkey Deep Fryer” - (US Application No. 15/923,578) Filing Date: March 16, 2018Published: September 20, 2018 This patent pending invention may look similar to other home fryers, but this patent application’s...
Prosecution Trends: The Growing 101 Problem for Artificial Intelligence – Webinar Recording
The Alice/Mayo framework for determining patent eligibility has made it much more difficult to obtain patents in a variety of technology fields, but until recently the futuristic area of artificial intelligence (AI) related innovation was largely spared from dealing...
Leveraging Patents to Shape the Future of Fitness
A look at the patent prosecution of fitness companies who are innovating for new ways to exercise. People are getting smarter about their workouts, and fitness technology is continually improving the way in which we push ourselves. There has been a boom in fitness and...
Five Election Patents that Shaped the Democratic Process
Midterm elections are now behind us and the nation has a restored our memory of the beauty and challenges that accompany our democratic processes. As great as our election processes are compared to those of many other nations, voting in the United States has always...
#54: Shades of Red
Chris talks with Megan about his recent experience deciding how to respond to a first office action. He discovered that his application has ended up with an examiner who has a high ETA (Examiner Time Allowance), indicating a slowness to grant patents....
The Art of Responding to Obviousness Rejections – Section 103 and the KSR Guidelines – Webinar Recording
While much attention in recent years has been placed on patent eligibility – and rightly so – the truth is, obviousness remains the most important threshold for most innovations. Obviousness today is about predictability of results. Listen as Gene Quinn, founder and...