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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...
How USPTO Examiner Type Affects Patents – 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...
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...
How Classification Works at the USPTO and the Implications for Software Patents and Computer Related Innovations – 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...
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...
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...
Five Ways To Enhance Patent Strategy With Data Analytics
By Eric Snustad Originally published on Law360.comNot long ago, the primary manner in which patent practitioners would obtain information about a particular examiner’s working style was to actually interview or otherwise work with the examiner, hear reports of...
Antiviral Patents – How prepared are we against viral diseases like COVID-19? – 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...
COVID-19 Important Announcement
As the impact of the novel coronavirus virus (COVID-19) unfolds, all of us are being challenged with adapting to new ways of working and living. We are all adjusting to social distancing, remote workplaces and restricted travel. Like many other segments within the...
China and the Changing Global Patent System – Webinar Recording
What You’ll Learn in This Webinar: Best practices for writing to circumvent Alice-based 101 concerns Best practices for ensuring a complete and thorough specification Claim drafting techniques to leverage Berkheimer 2-Minute Webinar PreviewWatch the Recording
LexisNexis Offers Free, Comprehensive COVID-19 News Coverage and Practical Guidance Content
LexisNexis® Legal & Professional has announced two free resources from Law360® and Lexis Practice Advisor® to help legal professionals, lawmakers and business leaders become better informed and successfully navigate the legal issues and intricacies surrounding the...
Announcing the All-New PatentAdvisor Benchmarking Reports™
Easily and objectively compare prosecution outcomes for law firms and companies with the most accurate and objective prosecution performance metrics available. The all-new real-time, fully-customizable PatentAdvisor Benchmarking Reports™ provide reliable...
Objectively Measure Patent Prosecution Performance by Normalizing for Examiner Difficulty
Some examiners are more difficult than others. The PatentAdvisor Efficiency ScoreTM levels the playing field by taking examiner difficulty out of the equation and scoring purely for efficiency.All of the metrics currently used to measure corporate and law firm...
Complaints Against Counsel: Optimizing Patents to Gain Client Favor
Keeping your clients happy is imperative to running a successful patent law firm. After all, clients are the lifeblood of any service business. They are a source of revenue, reviews, and referrals that lead to having plenty of patent prosecution projects in the...
The Three Cs of Data: A Patent Data Checklist for Reliable Information
Using USPTO patent data to inform and develop patent prosecution strategies is a growing trend among professionals. This is no surprise—analyzing patent examiner statistics and other performance metrics provides insights that would otherwise be unknown and reveals...