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Risks and Benefits of Patent Searching
There has been a long-standing debate between the risks and benefits of patent searching. For most R&D, marketing, and business managers, the benefits of searching patent information are unquestioned. However, legal counsel (including patent attorneys) often...
Ignorance isn’t always bliss. Using willful blindness as a policy for patent searching could backfire on large corporations.
Creating a policy that encourages employees to search for and analyze patent information related to new products and innovations makes good business sense but is often rejected by attorneys fearing charges of willful infringement. In fact, many companies, especially...
Tracking patents in the Animal Health Market — How M&A Impacts Intellectual property
The history of the animal health industry presents significant challenges when tracking patent ownership and innovation activity. Not only does one have to navigate the many large acquisitions that have been made in this space, there are also the rights to patents...
Gaming Companies Battle It Out Over Technology, Marketing, and Intellectual Property
This past March, Google made headlines around its new cloud-based, gaming platform, Stadia. The subscription streaming service (think Netflix for video games), will be accessible on PC’s, phones, tablets, and TV’s, eliminating the need for gamers to purchase yet...
Looking Under the Hood – The Automotive Patent Landscape
With the growing interest in electric transportation, it can seem like the auto industry has been taken over by a new breed of start-ups — companies and technologies that didn’t even exist before the beginning of this decade. But according to recent patent filings,...
Major League Patent Analysis
Identifying, recruiting, and signing a professional athlete is an exhaustive process for any sports franchise. Weighing the accolades versus the injuries. Home record versus away. ERAs, SOGs, QBRs, FG%s. Even deep dive background checks into the athletes’ families....
Dyson Innovates: The Electric Car
Dyson patent applications offer hints to its electric car designs AND its solid state batteries. A recent Wired Magazine article broke news of 3 published Dyson patent applications related to its electric car plans. These include WO2019086845A1, WO2019086847A1, and...
Patent Landscape Analysis Part 2 – How to perform a patent landscape analysis in 5 key steps
How to perform a patent landscape analysis in 5 key steps Introduction: Patent filings are occurring at an unprecedented scale. In 2016 approximately 3.1 million patent applications were filed worldwide (8% higher than 2015 statistics) — that’s over 8000...
BREAKING DOWN THE PATENT LANDSCAPE ANALYSIS
In Part 1 of Patent Landscape Analysis — An Overview, we describe what a patent landscape is, and why it’s so critical to all competitive innovation work. i.e., reduce redundant search, accelerate time to commercialization and protect teams from defensive litigation....
About the America Invents Act (AIA)
The America Invents Act (AIA) includes a broad array of reforms to the patent system. These changes give third parties the unprecedented right to challenge patent applications and grants through pre-issuance submissions, inter partes review, and post grant review....
Toyota’s Royalty Free Patents Result in New Revenue From Fuel Cell Equipment Sales and Know-How
Back in 2015, Toyota announced it would grant royalty free access to 5,680 fuel cell vehicle (FCV) technology patents through 2020. Earlier this month, Toyota made an announcement to offer royalty free access to 24,000 of its hybrid vehicle patents. This...
Why law firms are holding out on software solutions
At IP Checkups, we developed PatentCAM™, a patent management software tool to spur innovation among R&D, legal and business groups. While many R&D teams have embraced the software, the legal groups, in-house and outside counsel, have been tougher nuts...
Legal software as a service has been around since the early 1990s: Law Firms are finally starting to embrace it.
Back in 1993, Irving Rappaport and his business partner, Kevin Rivette founded Smart Patents. The company was one of the early legal software firms. Smart Patents’ goal was to create a “Digital Patent” and transition patent attorneys from working on paper to working...
Patent Landscape Analysis – An Overview
What is Patent Landscape Analysis & Why is it Important? It is believed that 80% of published science and technology information contained in patents is not published anywhere else. There are literally tens of millions of published patents and patent application...
Patent Tracking Provides Unique Insights into Competitor Pipelines
IP Checkups custom patent monitoring and curation service supports Big Pharma Co’s successful launch of multi-billion dollar drug. In an effort to develop best-in-class new chemical entities, in 2007, one of the world’s largest biopharma companies (~ $20 Billion...
Following Tesla, Toyota’s Fuel Cell Patents Are Now Open Source
At the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Toyota announced it would grant access to 5,680 fuel cell vehicle (FCV) technology patents. This idea of offering a royalty free patent license to competitors is novel, however it is not the first time we’re seeing an auto...
Toyota Offers Royalty Free Patent Licenses To Its Hydrogen Fuel Cell Patents
Toyota announced it would offer royalty free patent licenses to companies manufacturing and selling fuel cell vehicles until 2020. By sharing its Fuel Cell Vehicle (FCV) patent portfolio, equivalent to 20 years of research and development, Toyota hopes to spur...