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Novelty Search in Videos – My journey from having nothing to a relevant art

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After a long and hard day at work, I like to come home to a steaming cup of coffee, with toasted marshmallows on top, chocolate chip cookies on the side and some entertainment source to get my mind off work. While some people prefer books and other television, I find watching videos very relaxing. It […]

Everything we could tell you about Patent Invalidation

Patent Invalidation

You’re looking for Patent Invalidation search or ways to invalidate a patent. You know there are more than a couple of ways to do it. Or maybe you don’t. Well, for starters, you need prior art to invalidate a patent. And believe me, when I say it, Prior art could be found in a lot […]

How We Invalidated a Patent Related to Drones?

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Drones fascinate me. They are wonderful tools of entertainment and transportation and has so much potential, which, if fully explored can change the way mankind transports. Technology companies around the globe, are researching the solutions for the problems of the domain and it would only be a matter of time before drones are everywhere. TBH, I’m waiting […]

How We found Prior Art in Non Patent Literature of University Publication?

Prior Art in Non Patent Literature

I was leaning in my chair while watching those bees through the steam of my coffee. They were four in number, flying from one plant to another, from one flower to next, collecting the sugary nectar. When they were fully loaded, which was a task completed sort of thing for them, they flew back. The […]

Physical Search: Unconventional Way to find Prior Art

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Prior art can be found in a lot of places. Some conventional, others unimaginable yet a valid source of prior art – the unconventional one. As analysts, we are tuned to exhaust the conventional sources before probing into unconventional ways. But sometimes it is better to go unconventional in the very beginning, as it might […]

How strong is NuCurrent’s patent asserted against Samsung?

NuCurrent has been very active in providing wireless charging solutions since 2009, which were commercialized in 2012, while Samsung introduced a wireless charging kit as an add-on to the Galaxy S4 around 2013. After being introduced to Samsung at Consumer Electronics Show in 2015, both the companies collaborated officially under various confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements, as […]

Mesa sues Amazon, Sony, Lenovo, and Blackberry – a prior art could be found here

Patent Assertion Entities have been an active topic of discussion in IP industries for years. They have earned a moniker of frivolous lawsuit filers trying to assert a patent covering vague or quite general technology. Most of the cases filed by PAEs in the past decade involved patents covering software technology because software patents are […]

How Lateral Thinking Helped us in Invalidating a Standard Essential Patent on HDMI Technology?

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Invalidating patents is hard. Invalidating a standard-essential patent (SEPs) is even harder. SEPs claim technical solutions that are part of industry standards. Needless to say, they are much more valuable than regular patents. The technology behind these patents is developed by some of the best industry experts, mostly while working in an environment already filled […]

Invalidating Design Patent: How we found Prior Art in a Museum?

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We find prior art in a lot of unconventional places. Sitcoms, Pop culture magazines, FCC ID databases, Internet archives – Well, almost every place where you would least think of finding prior art. Having have found the impossible from places unimaginable, we were a bit awed when we found prior art in a Museum. Albeit an […]

7 things an Attorney must share before a Patent Validity Search

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The purpose of a patent validity search is to validate the enforceability of claims of a patent. If you a plaintiff, a patent validity search will help you know if your patent is going to survive in a courtroom or not. If you are a defender, a patent invalidity search may help you invalidate one […]

How did we find Prior Art in a Sitcom?

I’m a self-confessed fan of sitcoms and movies. A binge-watcher by nature, I often spend weekends endlessly staring at my laptop screen, with munchies on my side, so that I don’t have to hit pause for trivial reasons such as hunger pangs. I love watching sitcoms! How often it happens that binge-watching shows help you […]

Recurring FTO vs. One Time FTO – What you should go for?

During the course of the past decade, We have worked with various IP counsels, and figured that their strategy towards freedom to operate search can be classified into two major categories – Those who prefer to get FTO studies conducted multiple times as the product and its features evolve during the research and product development […]

What You Should Look for When Deciding A Patent Search Partner?

James, a renowned Intellectual Property attorney from the US, works with IP search/consulting partners for assisting him with patent analysis. These IP partners perform analyses like patent validity search, market analysis, infringement analysis, et cetera. This is an industry-wide practice now and many breakthrough decisions have been made over the past few years because of […]