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...

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...

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...

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”...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The discussion about cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology is hard to escape. When you turn on the news, you are likely to hear about the fluctuations of the many cryptocurrencies or the new applications blockchain technologies are bringing to everyday life....

On May 30, the Supreme Court issued one of the biggest patent infringement decisions of 2017. Contrary to Federal Circuit precedent, the Supreme Court’s decision in Impression Products v. Lexmark has companies everywhere reforming their patent strategies to account...

Mobile phones have evolved significantly since they first became a mainstream necessity. Not too long ago, cell phones were the size of cinder blocks, then they were scaled down into flip phones, until they eventually became less recognizable as phones and more like...

When working for a corporation, you have the best understanding of your company's business strategy and goals. How can you make sure that outside counsel is making decisions that align with your overall strategy? This session will help you think through the issues...

Beyond the depths of USPTO prosecution statistics there sits a world of rich, actionable content waiting to be tapped and utilized by patent practitioners. Tied to every patent application is a file wrapper containing the text of office actions, responses, claim...

On June 19th, 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a decision in Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International that significantly changed the landscape for what had been, up to that point, a very active area of intellectual property. The court found that the Alice...

1. A Patent Examiner on Elm Street Does your patent examiner have a dark prosecution history? Many patent practitioners discover the true nature of their assigned USPTO patent examiner deep into the process. Patent examiner statistics reveal an examiner’s prosecution...

Apple never ceases to amaze as they consistently solve everyday problems that we are not even aware that we have. The same holds true of a patent held by Apple titled “Dynamic Fit Adjustment for Wearable Electronic Devices” (Application Number 14/691,217), which...

"Our goal with the podcast is to bring more transparency to the process so patent attorneys can make decisions that lead to quicker timelines, improved cost-efficiencies and better patents now," said Chris Holt. "We explore how patent data can impact day-to-day...

Who knows what Disney is up to? A recent patent publication has piqued the interest of theme park and patent enthusiasts alike. Disney’s patent application titled “Track-based Swing Ride with Long Arm Pendulum” is the latest lens for speculation about Disney’s...

Arguably no other company has had as great a cultural impact as Apple on our society. After being revived by a sleek-and-simple music player at the turn of the century, Apple is an icon known for its innovation, design, and attention to detail. While these...

In the future we will look back and say that when the cars started driving themselves, we became free to put our minds to use. In the present, autonomous vehicles (or AVs) are far from ubiquitous, but AV innovations and patent applications relating to the subject are...

In this webinar, you'll get the story of how the USPTO first began systematically denying patentability to software inventions long before Alice v. CLS Bank International. Panelists Chris Holt, Vice President of Patent Analytics, LexisNexis PatentAdvisor® and Megan...

A webinar, led by Gene Quinn, founder of IPWatchdog.com, Robert Schaffer, intellectual property partner at Troutman Sanders and Thomas Franklin, Partner at Kilpatrick Townsend where they discuss: • Recent Federal Circuit cases dealing with 112 sufficiency of...

What was once the subject of futuristic thrillers and science fiction is now an integral part of life. Artificial intelligence is currently being used in healthcare, education, and finance, and the applications of AI are becoming more impressive every day. Exponential...

In order help one of your clients decide whether it makes sense to move forward with patent prosecution, you sit down and explain to her the ins-and-outs of the patent process. She takes a moment or two to digest the complexities of the patent system, and then leans...