Visual Effect Innovations vs. NVIDIA Corporation – We think US8864304 and US9167235 could get Easily Invalidated
On December 1, 2016, Visual Effect LLC filed a lawsuit against NVIDIA Corporation for infringing two of its patents US8864304 and US9167235– for which it demanded a trial by jury. Filed in the District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, according to the complaint, NVIDIA‘s active 3D glasses infringed primarily on Claim 1 of both […]
Cantigny vs Intermatic – How Intermatic could win this patent fight?
Do you know that nearly one-third of the patents involved in litigation were found to be invalid? Well, if you feel this number is high then you will find it difficult to accept our belief – We feel nearly 50% of the patents can be invalidated. We have been performing a lot of preliminary analysis […]
After Alice, this decision might invalidate numerous method patents
Recent affirmation of an Examiner’s rejection by Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) in response to an applicants’ appeal (2013-007847 – Ex Parte Randal C. Schulhauser) seem to open a new door for invalidating method patents. After the Alice based rejection, this case seems to be a good candidate capable of setting up a new […]
One Weird Trick to Beat Alice Rejections (Examiners HATE This!)
The Alice v. CLS Bank has had a tremendous impact on how the patent office treats applications for business method inventions. Indeed, since the Supreme Court’s decision in Alice, the allowance rate for class 705 (Data Processing: Financial, Business Practice, Management, or Cost/Price Determination) dropped from a pre-Alice high of 31.2% in 2013, to 23.5% […]
Reasons of Low Quality Patent Filings and Ways to Avoid them
A few months ago, there was a post on LinkedIn by a renowned IP strategist expressing her repugnance on the falling quality of patents being drafted by IP attorneys. In her words, Just had to tell a new client that his prestigious big firm attorney is churning his patent work by filing junk responses in […]
How to Increase Your ROI by generating Star patents in your portfolio?
The beauty of a crown is enhanced by its jewels. The gold, no matter how pure, just gives structure to the crown. It is the precious stones that make a crown, a crown. The same applies for a patent portfolio. A patent portfolio, no matter how huge, is deemed valuable only if it has high […]
How Microsoft and IBM Are Killing Potential of These Patents
Corporations continuously invest in R&D to maintain their competitive edge. A good portion of this investment further goes into building a patent portfolio that helps the company in a number of ways; for example, it defends R&D investments, provides the freedom to move in a market, help in collection and avoiding a licensing fee, etc. Do […]
Patent Asserted by Thermolife – Are They Really Strong?
Since 2013, one company in the bodybuilding supplement industry has been making rounds in many IP blogs. It has earned some accolades from the industry, like being the third most litigious patent holder of 2013. Last but not least, it has been running its patent litigation spree since 2013, filing more than 100 patent infringement lawsuits. […]
Generic drug of Pulmonary Artery Hypertension – Hurdles before Pharma Companies
Macitentan is a drug by Actelion for treating Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH). It’s popularly known as Opsumit and delays the progression of PAH, which got approval from the FDA in Dec 2013. Since then, 35 other countries have given an affirmation for its usage. After its approval, Opsumit has done great business for Actelion. In […]
How Automation Tools Help Making a Patent Monetization Strategy
Can you think of traveling from London to Paris by just walking instead of using an airplane? Impossible! You may even call me a lunatic for just asking such a silly question. But the point is if we are not keeping pace with rapidly changing technology, we might be on the losing side. Similar is […]
Do your competitors have a better return on the research investment?
Have you ever thought how much does a single patent actually cost? Of course, it’s easy to calculate the average filing and maintenance cost of a patent but here I’m discussing the actual cost incurred to a company for inventing something and then getting it protected. An invention is a result of several hours and […]
Does Your Organization have an Intellectual Property Vision?
Surviving in this cut-throat business era is not an easy task. It takes a visionary whose thought process and efforts can take a small concept to a great success. Faster is not faster if everyone is providing the deliveries at the same rate and simple is not simple if all the other designs available on […]
Smart Ways to Perform Patent Invalidity Searches for Mathematical Expressions
Have you ever had a case where you had to perform an invalidation search and you need a prior art for a claim at the heart of which has a mathematical expression? Needless to say, you wouldn’t like gambling your case on just any prior art. Are you wondering what could be sophisticated approaches here for […]
This One Publication Can Invalidate Most 3D Printing Patents
Patent thickets, broad patents, and patents covering vague and combinatorial claims have exponentially increased in number over the past few decades. Cloaking under the name of patent strategy, companies often try to get a lockdown on a technology domain by filing patents in a manner that it gets difficult to circumvent such patents. One such example of […]
How to Identify Products that are Infringing your Patents?
The main drawback of the patent system is that it only gives a patent holder a right to exclude without any provision to help them detect patent infringement. It is left on a patent holder to find out the products that might be infringing on the claims of their patents. This leaves a patent holder […]
Why You Need A Checklist to Deliver Best Results?
Organizations, to turn their future for good rely on big decisions. However, more often it’s the small decisions that matter the most. Nearly 100,000 U.S. patients are killed every year by the failure of doctors & staff to follow simple instructions. Really! Hospital-acquired infections kill that many people every year, and nearly all those deaths […]
