Mistakes you make 99% of the time while reading patents
I won’t pretend that reading patents is the most thrilling activity in the world. As a user experience designer at a patent research firm, I’ve spent more time than I care to admit poring over patents. Now that I come to think of it, that’s because I was making two trivial mistakes while analyzing these […]
Atlantic IP’s Litigation Campaign: What Telecom Companies Need to Prepare For!
While one cannot deny NPEs’ role in innovation protection, heavy litigation from them does create uncertainties and turmoil for companies. Do you remember when 5G networking became the talk of the town? Well, that’s also when NPEs were on the prowl, suing left and right. One such litigation campaign led by Atlantic IP had given […]
Get Access to your Patent Litigation Landscape – It Can Protect Your Business
As the chip shortage lingers upon the world, TeleGrey, one of our clients from the telecommunications industry, approached us with a plan to get into chip development to become self-reliant. Just like other tech giants, they saw a whitespace in the semiconductor industry and aimed to venture into the domain. However, there were a lot […]
5 Patents in Self-driving that could be threat to every automobile company
As innovation in self-driving technology is picking up the pace, acquiring the right patents can be crucial for IP managers to ensure their company stays ahead of the competition. But it isn’t as easy, and you already know that. Analyzing multiple patents and figuring out the best of the lot can get cumbersome. To make […]
Google Sued Over US9420075B2: Will it Survive DDC Technology’s Legal Fight?
Virtual Reality (VR) technology rapidly transforms how we experience the world, from immersive gaming to advanced training simulations. However, as with any burgeoning field, legal battles over intellectual property rights have become common in VR as well. One interesting case is the ongoing patent infringement against Google’s VR headset filed by DDC Technology. As experts […]
Nestle’s Recyclable Food Packaging is Disrupting the CPG Industry
In 2018, Nestle was ranked the world’s 3rd greatest plastic polluter by Break Free From Plastic. Following that, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and the UN Environment Programme together launched the New Plastics Economy Global Commitment to tackle plastic footprint by 2025. As a result, the CPG giant pledged to make 100% of its products recyclable […]
How Nokia & OnePlus could have made a stronger impact in the global market?
In 2019, OnePlus Technology faced a legal battle when EVS codec tech LLC & Saint Lawrence Communications- two U.S. NPEs sued this Chinese mobile giant for infringing on the patents related to wideband signals. While OnePlus was on the route to extracting the benefits of global expansion, it became a prime target for litigation in […]
Product Testing to prove the patent infringement by a leading dating app
Samuel (a Patent Attorney at a leading law firm in the USA) was exploring DatingArc (a famous dating app) as a potential infringer on one of his client’s patents. Despite his best efforts, he wasn’t been able to gather enough evidence to prove his case. That’s when he turned to GreyB’s infringement team. Initially, what […]
GreyB’s Claim Chart Construction – A Sure Shot to Winning Patent Infringement Cases
As an IP litigator, you know well how a claim chart can make or break the case for you. The effectiveness of a patent infringement search is nullified if the findings cannot be conveyed in the claim chart. The stakes are high, and you need to convince the judge or jury that your client’s patent […]
46 Non-patent Literature Databases for all your patent validity search needs
Conducting innumerable validity searches led us to realize that non-patent literature search databases often give us valuable leads to find the exact prior art. But, the trick with successful non-patent literature searching is to know “where to search when?”. While we all know of the popular non-patent literature search databases like Google Scholar and IEEE […]
Bell Semiconductor’s US7231626B2 is taking semiconductor companies under its radar. Are you safe?
Bell Semiconductor, an entity of Hilco Global, has thousands of patents in the semiconductor domain. However, despite the connotations, it is a category 2 Non-Practicing Entity and doesn’t seem to sell or develop anything. Instead, the company focuses solely on acquiring and asserting patents, and its recent lawsuit against 25 semiconductor companies has become a […]
10 Patent Buyers Ready to Pay Big in 2023
Analyzing your patent portfolio and potentially selling your patents to interested buyers can be a smart business move. And you already know that. Right? Therefore, to help guide you in this process, we’ve compiled a list of the ten companies actively acquiring patents. This list is curated by our monetization team, who tracked Assignor to […]
Top 10 Banks that take Patents as Collateral for loans
Irrespective of the company’s size, finding an alternative funding source can be challenging. While startups/smaller companies may struggle to secure funding for R&D or to support their growth strategies, established companies may face similar challenges during difficult economic times or unexpected obstacles. Fortunately, in times of need, patents can be used as collateral for loans. […]
4 ways to use the FCC database in patent infringement search
Patent infringement search cases can become complex and challenging to navigate when product literature is to be extracted from thousands of NPL sources. What if, while checking every single database, you miss out on information that could be related to the prior art or even the potential infringer’s activities? How will you decide the priority […]
How we found prior-art for an infant food formulation company using USDA data?
We recently closed a prior art search where our client, from one of the leading infant food formulation companies, was in a tough spot as their competitor had sued them for one of their inventions. Unfortunately, only a couple of days were left for the hearing of this case, and he approached us with little […]
Make a high-return litigation funding decision with GreyB
“First of all, it is very expensive litigation, and it is fairly risky on the plaintiff’s side, so the risk transferred to a funder is very appealing. You often have, not always, but a David versus Goliath dynamic between the plaintiff and defendant,” says Charles M Agee III, Westfleet CEO. As per the Westfleet 2021 […]
