Prior Art Search: Digging Deep into Combination Art
As a litigator, you love killer prior art, don’t you? But sometimes you must make do with 103-type if you are in the US. The sound of 103-type just made you sigh, didn’t it? It is justified too. Weak prior art can create conflicts for any attorney in any case. Fighting with a 103-type prior […]
Can our products face litigation when they come to the market?
How do you assess for your company, if the risk of patent litigation is ahead on the cards? Companies, especially the ones based on internet technology face a constantly evolving landscape. This in turn makes them vulnerable to financial and reputational losses if IP risks develop. As a result, it has created an exigency for […]
What is holding you back from taming the SEP dragon?
SEPs are a honeypot for the companies that are aiming to gain supremacy over their competitors. The current status of the SEP world is painted in our other articles. Looking at the average share of SEPs in a company’s portfolio, however, is not very promising, as some companies are yet to participate in the SEP […]
Indicators for Telecom Companies to identify 5G SEPs in their Portfolio
Preamble In this study, we aimed to identify the top players in the 5G technology (NOT 5G SEP, NOT Core SEP) and countries which are flag-bearers for innovating in this technology. The intent was to make people aware of the progress made in the industry so far. It was an automated analysis and no manual […]
How intellectual curiosity helped us identify a killer prior art in a short timeframe?
Have you ever faced a situation where you had to find killer prior art in a limited time frame? Let me tell you what happened when we faced a similar challenge recently. In this case client wanted a killer art, but within a week. Tom, a European litigation attorney, came to us with a prior […]
Automobile companies, here’s why you should start investing in 5G R&D right now.
If you are working in the automotive domain and not taking 5G seriously, you might find yourself in troubled waters a few years down the line. You know all about V2X Communication. You also know that 5G will make V2X easier, faster, and reliable. However, what you need to know is that the technology that […]
How we manage to keep our teams high performing?
The truth can hurt. But you can either run from it or learn from it! You guessed it right, we are talking about feedback. With the end of the quarter a fortnight ago and the quarterly feedback in progress, our managers – Shikhar, Rajesh, and Nikhil – presented their views on the 360 feedback system […]
Celebrating our first Quarter Anniversary of Work-from-Home
“All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy!” That’s exactly what we believe at GreyB. We know how working-from-home feels, and I promise, you will be able to relate to everything in this article. But before we get to that, let me give you a little background. It was the first quarter anniversary […]
Prediction as a service: The Future Triangle Framework can help you correctly predict future
What if I tell you I can help you predict the future? Most people might come to you and say that analytics can help you achieve exactly that. Reality is – it cannot. Where we are right now, i.e., Present, results from the compounding of the decisions we have made up until now. Similarly, the […]
From Patent Prosecution to Licensing, Intellectual Property Management is just a Tool away!
Are you an IP counsel who is looking for tools for handling various facets of your job – Be it patent prosecution, litigation, monetization, or patent portfolio management? If yes, this article is for you. In our earlier articles in the series, we emphasized the necessity of legal tech in your day to day job, […]
How we helped a smart young partner of a law firm find patent infringement for his client
“Our group would like to proceed with the initial search outlined to identify companies who could be infringing U.S. Patent No. XXXX971”, emailed Chris – Partner in a proclaimed law firm and a new client of ours. Chris had recently realized that a patent drafted by him and assigned to one of his clients in […]
14 Famous Patent Infringement Cases that changed US Patent Law
The patent system in the US today is the result of multiple decisions and verdicts that shaped the course of patent law. Some decisions were mildly significant, while others had a major impact, changing patentability law and how patents were perceived. Every verdict changed some aspects of patent law or another. While some shaped the […]
How to leverage the power of Salesforce in Patent portfolio management?
Do you use Salesforce in your organization? If yes, this write-up is for you. Excuse me for starting the article abruptly, but I don’t want to waste a second and directly jump on to help you with saving time (see what I did there?). Recently, we were in talks with the IP counsel of an […]
93 Famous Patent cases that can help identify USPTO Abstract ideas
How do you tell apart an abstract idea from another? More importantly, in this post-Alice era, how do you identify patent abstract ideas which determine the subject matter eligibility for claims? Ever since the Alice verdict, it has become increasingly important to assess the patent-eligible subject matter in consonance with section 101 (§101) of the […]