Find Standard Essential Patents in Your Portfolio with GreyB’s proven manual methods
Standard essential patents (SEPs) facilitate technical coordination through standard-setting organizations. However, there are instances where the status of a declared SEP being truly essential to the standard remains unclear. That is why when we published the 5G Report to determine True 5G SEPs in 2020, media outlets and community forums bombarded us with a recurring […]
Impact of the Unitary Patent & Unified Patent Court? Key Steps to Consider
European Patent (EP) has been a common patent valid across 39 contracting member states (27 EU countries and 12 other European countries). However, the downside of it has been that the patentee must validate the EP patent within different contracting countries separately after its grant. In addition, once the EP patent is granted, the post-grant proceedings/procedures […]
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 […]
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 […]
Learn from Apple and Google to go beyond the survival during recession!
Imagine you’re Mike, the IP Counsel of a leading technology manufacturing company. With the economy slowly slipping into a recession, you must ensure that your company doesn’t sink. This means you must protect your company’s existing IP and identify new opportunities for growth and innovation. Since you realize how important it is to invest in […]
The most underrated feature of GreyB’s IDS Manager
When I joined GreyB last year as part of the marketing team, my first week was dedicated to learning about the in-house tools and understanding what sets our tools apart. One tool which caught my attention, given the queries we received on it, was the IDS Manager. Further, the keyword that separated GreyB’s tool from the […]
Life of a Paralegal before and after the IDS Manager
“You don’t know the value of the best until you’ve experienced the worst,” I blurted out loud as I went through the journal of a paralegal, amazed at how his life took a turn for the best. While scrolling through my daily emails, I stumbled across an email shared by one of our IDS Manager […]
5 Best practices to follow while filing Information Disclosure Form (IDS)
Our operational costs have been reduced by 50% and prosecution time is 30% faster, which has led to a 25% increase in profit. – Mike, one of our clients, filed over 20,000 (Information Disclosure Form) IDS last year. Did you know that it isn’t just Mike? A number of our clients were concentrating the majority […]
How Industry giants file continuation patent applications to claim broader inventions in the US
The patent prosecution process is a battle on its own, much akin to the patent owner and the examiner playing a game of chess. Each of them plays moves by not just reading the other one’s last move but also anticipating their next. As a result, many law firms and companies employ sophisticated strategies to […]
How to select the best legal software tool?
I’ve seen docketing systems missing lots of basic checks that can be programmed in a day. For instance, I’ve experienced IDS filing systems that do not check if cited references are in sync with family members. These are basic checks that’d be in the muscle memory of a paralegal working on IDS Preparation. I am […]
How to find an IP service provider that meets your needs
“At the end of the day I can get the work that I need, but if I would have done the work myself, I would have done it differently.”, relatable? This is the problem that some of the best in-house patent counsels shared with me, but according to them they never talked openly about it. […]
4 Mistakes that might make you lose out on standard-essential patents in your portfolio
In recent years, Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) have been the hot topic of interest for the R&D-Sales and Marketing departments of various companies. After all, confirming the patent as SEP more or less opens the doors for a company to earn royalties worth tens of millions of dollars. It could add to your revenues. But, […]
Smart Patent Prosecution: How to break free of the rejection-response loop and grant your applications efficiently without losing millions?
If I tell you, you could customize your internal patent tools with additional information, do you know the kind of possibilities it can open up? Depending on the tool and the customization, you can find patents and applications that are eating up resources without being of any value, taking exceedingly long to grant, and are […]
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 […]
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 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 […]