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Patent Analytics and the Three Personalities of Patent Prosecution
Why is it so difficult to predict the course of patent prosecution? To begin, patent law and patentability requirements are hardly black and white. Patentability is often open to interpretation, and reasonable minds often differ in their opinions. Moreover, the patent...
On-Demand Webinar: A Conversation with the USPTO Commissioner
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...
On-Demand Webinar: United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) – Objectively uncover sustainable technological development through the lens of patents.
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...
On-Demand Webinar: Innovation Management in Times of Crisis
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...
Omnichannel Fraud: 3 Intellectual Property Threats on the Web
Today's digital landscape offers brands powerful tools to engage with their customers. Organizations use digital channels for E-commerce, customer services, marketing, and beyond creating touch points all across the web. This drives ease of doing business but it also...
Innovation Management in Times of Crisis: Budgets, Acquisitions, or Alternative Options? Insights from Patent Analytics
When COVID-19 came into our lives last year, it placed a burden on all of us in our business and private lives. Whilst we face consequences from the pandemic everyday as we begin our days working from home, watch the news or read the newspaper, various consequences...
On-Demand Webinar: Saving the World with Patents
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...
Financial Times: “Digitization Climbs up Legal Agenda”
Have you ever wondered how leading companies integrate their IP activities into the innovation process and measure the quality of their patent portfolios? Beat Weibel, chief IP counsel at Siemens, explains why he chose to change the company’s patent strategy and how...
On-Demand Webinar: Building a Strategic Patent Portfolio
About the Webinar: As a company with an innovative idea, the only way to avoid being outplayed by the big corporations with a stronger market position is to make sure you play your cards right. “When entering new markets, companies often encounter patent...
Using Statistics to Gather Patent Examiner Intel
Patent professionals maintain an interesting relationship with their assigned patent examiners. From one perspective, it is perfectly amicable. Patent examiners are generally cooperative and unbiased; they stick to examining procedure, and even if the rejections they...
Adjusting for Analysis: Using Patent Examiner Clues to Predict Behavior
Patent statistics are important clues that help patent professionals better understand the nuances of effective patent prosecution. But clues, by definition, are just a small piece of a larger problem. They play an important role in developing patent prosecution...
Patent Landscape Analysis
Conducting patent landscaping for a client is an opportunity to communicate information that can have a profound impact on your clients’ success in business. Patent landscapes are a vehicle for patent professionals to instill clients with a thorough understanding of...
Conduct Competitor Analysis with LexisNexis® PatentSight®
Patent professionals may fail to realize how much value they can add to their clients’ corporate strategies. After all, patent protection is often the centerpiece around which both offensive and defensive corporate strategies are built. The role of a patent...
Choosing the Best Path Forward After Receiving an Office Action
Costing clients roughly $3,000 apiece to deal with, office actions can quickly become one of the largest expenses in patent prosecution. Office action price tags do vary depending on the types of rejections made by a patent examiner and the amount of research and...
On-Demand Webinar: Trends in Health Care Technology and the Role Patents Play
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...
How to Compare Patent Prosecution Performances
Comparing the effectiveness of two patent practitioners can be like comparing apples to oranges. The success of a patent application is dependent on many factors that are beyond a patent practitioner’s control, which makes it difficult to evaluate their performance...
Conducting Patent Searches Using the CPC Scheme
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has finalized its transition to the Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) scheme for classifying patent applications and for patent application routing within the USPTO. A joint effort between the USPTO and...
Transform Patent Data Into Intelligence
Competitive intelligence is usually conducted by marketing teams and less often by patent professionals, but why is that exactly? Competitive intelligence results when a company gathers and analyzes information on its industry, the business environment, competitors,...
Analytical Pruning: Patent Tools for Healthier Patent Portfolios
A patent portfolio is a lot like a garden in many ways. Patent portfolios often contain many varieties of patent applications that are “planted” at different times. Each patent application needs to be nurtured, comes with its unique challenges and matures at its own...
5 Consequences of Patent Data Errors: The Applicant Name Field
It’s the first rule of statistics: if the data behind an analysis is inaccurate, the results of the analysis will be just as inaccurate and unreliable. For patent information users, the consequences of bad data usage are huge and can range anywhere from wrongful...
Combining Tools for All Stages of Patent Prosecution
Research, drafting and prosecution are the three cornerstones of the patent process. How a patent professional approaches each cornerstone can have a significant impact on the expenses, durations and outcomes of their patent applications. Many tools have been...
LexisNexis TotalPatent One® New Patent Search Tool
The LexisNexis TotalPatent One® patent search tool is designed to deliver on-point results derived from a comprehensive and in-depth content collection of patent and non-patent literature. To provide the best possible patent search tool, we use an iterative process...
LexisNexis TotalPatent One® Exciting New Enhancements
The LexisNexis TotalPatent One® patent research solution is designed to deliver on-point results derived from globally issued patents, published patent applications and utility models. To provide the best possible experience for you, we use an iterative process of...
Why Brand Equity Matters – Secure Your Brand Before Bad Actors Hijack It
Brand equity, in short, is the perceived value of your brand to the outside world. It can be either positive or negative and is created by the experiences that people have with your brand. There are more outlets than ever before to buy and sell goods and services and...
Secure Your Online Revenue and Reputation With LexisNexis® Brand Protection
Securing and protecting our clients’ intellectual property (IP) assets is at the core of what we do at LexisNexis® Intellectual Property. To help our customers protect their IP, and now also their brand reputations, relationships and revenue online, we are introducing...
LexisNexis and Appdetex Form Alliance to Protect Global Brands in Europe from Brand Abuse in Digital Channels
Analysis shows that brand abuse by systemic networks has accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic and now accounts for 25% of confirmed casesLONDON & NEW YORK – March 24, 2021 –LexisNexis Legal & Professional, a leading global provider of legal, regulatory,...
Patents in De-Carbonization: Toyota Leads in Number, Samsung Ranks First in Total Strength
Which companies are the biggest contributors to the creation of a de-carbonized society? That’s an interesting, yet difficult, question to answer. In the past 20 years, 1.55 million patents worldwide were filed by approximately 350,000 companies under the...
Volvo Cars’ Electrified Future
Did you know that the first rough version of an electric car was invented in the 1830s? Yet, cars were powered by internal combustion engines until 1990, when the first hybrid electrical vehicles emerged on the market. As with any big technology, the transition...
International Access: Entry Points for Global Patent Searches
It is a highly globalized world, where international commerce has become easier than ever. Businesses have few problems transcending borders, but the same cannot be said of innovation. Patent rights are territorial, and as a result, the patent records are primarily...
A Practitioner’s Mission to Improve Prosecution Results
Who would have thought that “search and rescue” could find its way into a patent attorney’s job description? While the patent version of a search and rescue may not be as dangerous or adventurous as the real deal, changing our perspective on the work that we do can...