Patent Prosecution
Utilize comprehensive data to gain strategic insight for smarter patent prosecution.
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Determining Patent Value with Patent Prosecution Analytics
There are many reasons to assess a patent application’s value. Venture capitalists looking to invest in a company may wish to value the company’s patent portfolio to help determine the company’s value and the risk of their investment. For small companies, a valuable...
Are U.S. Patent Examiner Statistics Fair?
Analytics describing what happens at the U.S. patent office have been on the market for almost a decade, most commonly in the form of examiner statistics. It’s no longer news that there is significant outcome variability at the USPTO, and that it’s largely driven by...
How to Automate Office Action Responses
The amount of ways patent prosecution tools can benefit a patent application has grown significantly. Early on, online patent search tools connected the world and brought national and international patent documents within a few clicks. Patent practitioners caught on...
Prosecuting for Value: Identifying and Creating Perceived Patent Strength – Webinar Recording
Listen as Gene Quinn, founder and president of IPWatchdog.com, Matt Larson, Vice President at Oceanic Parnters and Megan McLoughlin, Product Director for LexisNexis PatentAdvisor® share tips for altering your prosecution strategy to ensure that the resulting patents...
Improve your Prosecution Efficiency: How to Automate Office Action Responses – Webinar Recording
Listen as David Stitzel, IP Solutions Consultant at LexisNexis IP, demonstrates how the Office Action Response tool can help you gain back time spent on more tedious tasks to focus your attention on doing more of what matters most. 2-Minute Webinar Preview We’ll show...
Setting the Tone of Prosecution with Patent Analytics
There is no perfect formula for prosecuting a patent, but there is plenty of information out there that can be used to help anticipate a patent examiner's behavior. With accurate predictions, patent applicants can strategize and take actions to increase their chances...
Patent Litigation and “The Ice Cream of the Future”
Dippin’ Dots are enjoyed around the world. The delicious ice cream pellets can be found most commonly at amusement parks and have been known to hit the spot on a hot day. Despite being recognized and enjoyed globally, the innovative take on a ubiquitous dessert has...
Webinar Recording: Prosecution Data for Profit: Five Tips for Making the Most of Prosecution Analytics
Listen as Megan McLoughlin, product director of LexisNexis PatentAdvisor® introduces you to some of the ways that more data savvy practitioners are using patent prosecution analytics to get an edge over the competition. 2-Minute Webinar Preview In this webinar you'll...
What Prosecution Features are Tied to Positive Litigation Outcomes?
Obtaining patents that will withstand litigation is one of the primarily goals of a good patent practitioner, but unfortunately, it is not always clear which prosecution strategies will ensure positive outcomes in court. Conventional wisdom used to be that a longer...
A Celebration of the Innovations and Influence of NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) is perhaps the most iconic and influential agency within the United States government. Established in 1958, its mission statement is “to pioneer the future in space exploration, scientific discovery, and aeronautics...
Webinar Recording: Five Tips for Better Patent Prosecution in the World of Big Data
Given the size and rapid growth of the US Patent Office—from ~3,000 examiners in 2000 to over 8,000 examiners in 2018—it’s no surprise that different patent examination styles have produced significant outcome variability in prosecution outcomes. Examiner statistics...
Predicting Examiner Behavior with PatentAdvisor ETA™
The most predictive indicator of prosecution length and complexity developed to date. PatentAdvisor Examiner ETA™ is the newest metric exclusively available on the LexisNexis PatentAdvisor® patent analytics platform. It also happens to be the most predictive...
Webinar: Dissecting Alice at 5 – The Good, Bad & the Ugly
Listen as Gene Quinn, President and CEO of IPWatchdog, Inc. hosts a special free webinar discussion focusing on the Alice decision five years later. Joining Gene for this special webinar is Drew Hirshfeld, Commissioner for Patents at the United States Patent and...
A Patent Examiner’s Take on ETA
What might a USPTO examiner have to say about this new way to approach patent prosecution? The newest LexisNexis PatentAdvisor® metric has proven to be the most predictive patent metric yet. Each PatentAdvisor Examiner ETA™ helps patent professionals better...
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,...