Patent Prosecution
Utilize comprehensive data to gain strategic insight for smarter patent prosecution.
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Taking Patent Analytics to the Next Level
Maintaining Healthy Patent Portfolios
How to Improve Patent Prosecution Strategy
The proliferation of data analytics tools has changed the way that patent practitioners approach their work. Many new features offered in these tools have greatly enhanced patent practice. In this article published in Law360, Eric Snustad, shareholder at Fredrikson...
Shades of Red: Using Patent Analytics to Overcome a “Bad” Examiner
Turn to the Patent Data While traditional patent statistics provide valuable information about your patent examiner, such as how many office actions she typically grants or the percentage of applications she has allowed to issue in the past, the best predictor of a...
RCE vs. Appeal: Four Considerations That Can Make All the Difference
The patent process is anything but predictable. The road to issuance can be bumpy as new challenges arise and patent practitioners are forced to make important prosecution decisions. Often, these decisions come about when an examiner issues a final office action. It...
The Most Comprehensive Full-Text Patent Data in English Is Now Available within LexisNexis® PatentSight®
Full-text patent data from LexisNexis® IP is now accessible in LexisNexis PatentSight, enabling customers to use a single platform to make smart strategic decisions based on advanced patent analytics HORSHAM, PENN May 15, 2019, LexisNexis IP has integrated its...
LexisNexis PatentSight® is a SIIA CODiE Award Finalist
LexisNexis PatentSight® has been named a finalist in the Best Big Data Reporting & Analytics Solution category of the 2019 SIIA CODiE Awards program. The SIIA finalists' page summarizes the analytics solution this way: PatentSight is an analytics platform for...
Three Reasons PatentAdvisor Examiner ETA™ Is Better Than Allowance Rate
It was not that long ago that patent analytics changed the way patent professionals approach patent prosecution. The ability to access key USPTO examiner statistics has enabled professionals to adapt their prosecution strategies to their assigned examiner for improved...
PatentSight Use Case: The Early Identification of Disruptive Players with Advanced Patent Analytics
Spot disruptive innovations early on the shelves What if it was possible to spot disruptive trends early on, to prepare or even capitalize on the market shift? Apple has become a leader in the watch market within just 2 years. As with the iPad, iPod and Apple...
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...
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...
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,...
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™
Patent analytics simplifiedPatent 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 PatentAdvisor® will help you predict...
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...
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...