These 11 Answers by a Patent Examiner will help understand patent process better
An examiner of USPTO hosted an AMA (Ask Me Anything) session on Reddit where he and Reddit users discussed multiple patent-related topics. For the uninitiated, AMA or Ask Me Anything is a feature of Reddit similar to an online press conference. In general, someone specialized in a field or an influential personality hosts an AMA […]
How to Overcome Rejections Based on the Alice Decision
Alice Corp. v CLS Bank is fast becoming a landmark decision for patent analysis in the United States. Many applications are being rejected by examiners based on 35 U.S.C. 101 rejections of the claims arguing – “the claims are drawn to an abstract idea”. There is a need to change the way applicants are drafting claims […]
A Cross Company Patent Analysis on Salesforce Acquisition
The IT industry is known for its fair share of mergers and acquisitions. From acquiring nascent start-ups with a small revenue stream to those with huge potential, the technology industry has seen it all. Be it WhatsApp’s $19 Billion acquisition or Nest for $3.2 Billion, the industry does only little not to surprise us. Running […]
The Race of Singapore to Become The Next IP Hub of Asia
As the global economy is becoming innovation-centric, growth today has become almost impossible without taking IP into consideration. Singapore, where the growth of IP sector is quite apparent, is moving in a direction to cement itself as the IP hub of the Asian region. The Singapore Government, for that matter, has announced an Intellectual Property Hub […]
Invalidity Searches – Litigation Support
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Amazon & Facebook – Patent Portfolio Insights
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Invalidating a Composition Patent? This is how we did.
OBJECTIVE The patent under study was related to a cigarette filter having gas adsorbing material and certain specific composition requirements. Our objective was to invalidate the patent for Inter Partes Review. STORY In patents such as this, which have specific composition requirements, the task of finding prior-art for inter partes review search may become a little […]
Invalidation Search – How We Cracked The Toughest Case We Came Across?
We received a request from a client to invalidate a patent that is related to the concept of a random access procedure. More specifically, the patent was talking about a specific equation. Actually these days we are doing a hell lot of invalidation. STORY In this case, we got an important lead during the start […]
How we Invalidated a Wireless Communication Patent using Standards?
OBJECTIVE The patent that we received from the client was related to Wireless communication and covered the process for handling lower priority communication traffic. STORY This time, we thought to start the search in a regular way. We started with the development of a detailed understanding of the patent followed by a thorough analysis of file […]
Invalidation Search – How to find better results than an examiner during prosecution?
OBJECTIVE: We had to invalidate a patent related to an audio player that had one important feature. Also, the client wanted to make his position stronger in the Inter Partes Review. STORY: This patent had been a part of litigation before. In all such cases, the other party ended up settling the case. So, we had […]
