Analysis of patent litigation, PTAB practice, prosecution and pharma IP, written on the data behind LexDana.
Oh, hey there Internet. We had a good week this week. Our Patent Monetization Strategies webinar was a great success. Peter Kim did an excellent job, he was a great presenter (“I have a confession to make...I love patents”) and handled a few…
Patently Apple reports that this week's issue of the USPTO Official Gazette included patent 8,459,544 -- "Parental Controls." Though the patent certainly shows a growing interest in mobile payment, the narrow claims and limited applicability…
Last week I published a post detailing the importance of pursuing and developing patent licensing agreements to monetize IP assets. This analysis does gloss over some important details regarding the elements that constitute a successful licensing strategy…
In the past we’ve written pretty extensively on some of the problems plaguing the patent system, from the USPTO to NPE s, and some possible solutions for them. Aside from promoting and protecting innovation, an auxiliary goal of the patent system is…
New contest on the site. Woooo! We had a bit of a lull there. I’m very happy to have a contest on the site again. It’s a pretty neat one too. A device that uses a chaotic pendulum and a reflective strip to simulate the flickering of a candle…
Stephen Jenei over at Patent Baristas posted an interesting analysis of the 2012 PwC paper proposing that courts, not Congress, shape the law. Excerpted below: "With the passage of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA) last year, which converted…
Dilligent Patexia users may have noticed a new type of contest recently appear on our site: “commercial use” or “licensing” searches. In fact, we just closed our first search of this kind (investigating a particular antibacterial…
A main goal of the patent system is to incentivize innovation within an economy. Investment in the research and development of inventions can be substantial. Without some form of recompense for the time and money spent on research for a particular…
Innovators have flooded the patent system with applications. Previous articles at Patexia have focused heavily on problems related to this sharp increase in patent applications over the past twenty years. Though the reasons for these filings are numerous…
Two weeks ago, on the first day of the new year, the world collectively switched to a new way of thinking about innovation. The switch was to a harmonized, collective hierarchy of categories for the world’s IP organizations to think about classifying…
In 2012, Chinese inventors filed more patent applications than those in any other country--including the United States. In a recent Booz & Company report (Ed: now Strategy&) , the authors surveyed many major Chinese and multinational companies to explore…
A certain patent-holding company wants to enforce its patent--that is, prevent another company from making and selling the invention described in that patent. That company has a few choices, the first and most obvious being the US district courts. In the…
