FTO Inspired Landscapes – A Way to Optimize Freedom to Operate Studies
Ask a bunch of patent counsel how do they feel about performing a Freedom to Operate study, and you may hear a collective groan from the whole group. No doubt – performing an FTO is a cumbersome and time-consuming process. And yet, the importance of ‘freedom to operate’ or ‘clearance’ search during the development phase […]
Special gift on Mother’s Day
Many a time we become spellbound when we have to explain how do we feel about someone or something. And you will agree to the fact that it becomes even tougher when that someone is your dad. When you are hundreds of miles away from you home, you miss everything. You miss your mom, the […]
How we use 3G and GSM concepts to invalidate 4G LTE Patents?
Of late, we have been performing a lot of invalidation searches on patents of 4G LTE. And I noticed a weird pattern – call it insight if you would like to – that I didn’t discover earlier while working on patents of 4G. The technique that I used in this patent prior art search for […]
How these researchers have overcome one major challenge of LiFi?
LiFi technology has been in the public eye since Prof. Harald Haas first introduced it to the world in his Ted talk in August of 2011. LiFi uses characteristics like intensity, and the frequency of visible light is used to communicate data between two devices (transmitter and receiver). A powerful and complementary alternative to radiofrequency […]
7 Post-Alice patent cases that survived 101 rejections – Clearing some cloud of doubts on software patent eligibility
By the time the Alice decision marked its second anniversary, more than 8400 applications got abandoned while 60,000+ applications got rejected due to the decision. The district court decisions clocked around 247 – invalidating 70% of them – and Federal Circuit at 40 – invalidating 95% of the patents under 35 USC 101.  “No U.S. Supreme […]