http://www.patexia.com Patexia Rss Feed Mon, 20 May 2013 23:04:14 -0700 http://www.patexia.com/feed/how-i-did-it-interview-with-mohit-yadav-runner-up-in-neural-discharge-for-predicting-cardiac-disease-contest-20130503 Mohit Yadav was a runner up in the Neural discharge for predicting cardiac disease contest that closed a few weeks ago. After his victory we interviewed him about his experience and how he did it. Here's what he had to say:   What is your profession? I am a patent scientist. I work on searching patents and non-patent literature and provide technical support to attorneys.   What is your educational background? I have a bachelor’s of... How I did it: Interview with Mohit Yadav, Runner up in Neural Discharge for Predicting Cardiac Disease Contest() at patexia.com Sat, 04 May 2013 00:14:14 +0000 http://www.patexia.com/feed/case-research-notes-licensing-and-information-20130420 Last week I published a post detailing the importance of pursuing and developing patent licensing agreements to monetize IP assets. This analysis does gloss over some important details regarding the elements that constitute a successful licensing strategy for a pre-existing portfolio of patented technologies. In today’s note I’d like to take a closer look at some of these details. Which way to monetize? Startups to develop technologies are only sometimes a good choice (in ... Case Research Notes: Licensing and information() at patexia.com Wed, 24 Apr 2013 19:12:12 +0000 http://www.patexia.com/feed/npe-licensing-and-tech-transfer-20130412 In the past we’ve written pretty extensively on some of the problems plaguing the patent system, from the USPTO to NPEs, and some possible solutions for them. Aside from promoting and protecting innovation, an auxiliary goal of the patent system is to facilitate technology transfer--finding commercialization routes to get patented inventions from the lab bench out to the consumer’s store shelves. In an increasingly developed and widespread tech marketplace, the importance of... NPE licensing and tech transfer() at patexia.com Tue, 16 Apr 2013 18:00:03 +0000 http://www.patexia.com/feed/defensive-publication-20130403 Defensive publication is the purposeful publication of an innovation creating prior art to block future patents on the same idea. The IP strategy isn’t new; many top patentees GE, IBM, HP, SIEMENS etc. have been using defensive publications alongside their patents to protect their IP for decades and increasingly smaller firms are starting to adopt the strategy. Publish or patent? In this post we review what the strategy is all about and why these companies do not simply patent... Defensive Publication() at patexia.com Wed, 03 Apr 2013 16:03:03 +0000 http://www.patexia.com/feed/winner-interview-jetpack-contest-sibelle-andrade-20130327 Sibelle Andrade, an intellectual property analyst from Brazil, won $500 in the recent Jetpack contest. In the wake of her victory we interviewed her about her background and experience at Patexia. Her interview is below. Enter Sibelle --- James: What is your profession? Sibelle: I’m a chemical engineer and I work as an intellectual property analyst. I’ve worked for companies in different fields, but the main activities have focused on intellectual... Winner Interview: Jetpack Contest - Sibelle Andrade() at patexia.com Wed, 27 Mar 2013 22:01:01 +0000 http://www.patexia.com/feed/10-secrets-to-locating-non-patent-prior-art-20130314 Stuart Soffer made an excellent guest post at Patently-o recently with his top 10 secrets for locating non-patent prior art. Tips included going offline, finding people building their own collections of non-patent prior art (packrats), and tracking down company historians (who knew there was such a thing?). You can read the whole article here. 10 Secrets to Locating Non-Patent Prior Art() at patexia.com Thu, 14 Mar 2013 22:34:34 +0000 http://www.patexia.com/feed/pwc-patent-study-courts-not-congress-shape-the-law-20130301 Stephen Jenei over at Patent Baristas posted an interesting analysis of the 2012 PwC paper proposing that courts, not Congress, shape the law. Excerpted below: "With the passage of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA) last year, which converted the patent system from a ‘first to invent’ to a ‘first inventor to file’ system. The AIA, signed into law in September 2011, indeed brought significant changes in certain areas. But it did not address the... PWC Patent Study: Courts, not Congress, Shape the Law() at patexia.com Fri, 01 Mar 2013 18:19:19 +0000 http://www.patexia.com/feed/case-research-notes-patent-licensing-20130222 Dilligent Patexia users may have noticed a new type of contest recently appear on our site: “commercial use” or “licensing” searches. In fact, we just closed our first search of this kind (investigating a particular antibacterial agent). Today’s note will focus on patent licensing, and will hopefully provide our users with a valuable introduction to this aspect of patent research. What is patent licensing? As we’ve discussed before, patents... Case Research Notes: Patent Licensing() at patexia.com Fri, 22 Feb 2013 23:09:09 +0000 http://www.patexia.com/feed/patent-monetization-20130205 A main goal of the patent system is to incentivize innovation within an economy. Investment in the research and development of inventions can be substantial. Without some form of recompense for the time and money spent on research for a particular invention, individuals and companies would have no incentive to make this investment. Patents, issued for the novel and useful results of these research efforts, provide means for companies to recuperate these costs. In other words, companies must... Patent Monetization() at patexia.com Tue, 05 Feb 2013 23:42:42 +0000 http://www.patexia.com/feed/invest-in-innovation-20130131 Technology companies are easily left behind in the world of consumer technology. A post in December of last year highlighted the importance of constant innovation in the technology product cycle. The article painted a pretty bleak picture for companies who are not always on the crest of the latest technological breakthroughs--those who fall behind get left behind. It follows that they have to resort to aggressive licensing and litigation strategies which, because there are so many... Invest in Innovation() at patexia.com Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:27:27 +0000 http://www.patexia.com/feed/dormant-patents-20130204 Innovators have flooded the patent system with applications. Previous articles at Patexia have focused heavily on problems related to this sharp increase in patent applications over the past twenty years. Though the reasons for these filings are numerous and complicated, the benefits that they provide businesses should be concrete and straightforward. This is increasingly not the case. The patent system rewards innovators for sharing information by granting a monopoly on their... Dormant Patents() at patexia.com Wed, 30 Jan 2013 23:18:18 +0000 http://www.patexia.com/feed/the-cooperative-patent-classification-20130115 Two weeks ago, on the first day of the new year, the world collectively switched to a new way of thinking about innovation. The switch was to a harmonized, collective hierarchy of categories for the world’s IP organizations to think about classifying inventions. The Cooperative Patent Classification, a collaborative effort between the USPTO and the European Patent Office (EPO), is a long-overdue reevaluation of the global innovation taxonomy. Figure 1: EPO President Benoit... The Cooperative Patent Classification() at patexia.com Tue, 15 Jan 2013 21:16:16 +0000 http://www.patexia.com/feed/innovation-in-china-20130114 In 2012, Chinese inventors filed more patent applications than those in any other country--including the United States. In a recent Booz & Company report, the authors surveyed many major Chinese and multinational companies to explore this unexpected result. They were surprised to find that nobody was surprised, and that “many global companies already perceive Chinese companies as major innovation powers.” The report attributes this success to the implementation of... Innovation in China() at patexia.com Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:04:04 +0000 http://www.patexia.com/feed/what-s-fair-in-patent-war-20130108 A certain patent-holding company wants to enforce its patent--that is, prevent another company from making and selling the invention described in that patent. That company has a few choices, the first and most obvious being the US district courts. Its the most straightforward sense, patent cases are typically brought to this venue for argument, often in the form of patent infringement litigation. There are other agencies involved in the enforcement of patents--the Department of Justice, the... What's fair in patent war?() at patexia.com Wed, 09 Jan 2013 00:44:44 +0000 http://www.patexia.com/feed/mobile-ip-in-the-new-year-20130103 Nokia, RIM, Motorola, Google, Apple and Samsung. In 2012, they captured our imaginations by pushing the boundaries of mobile technology and our media attention by fighting tooth-and-nail over intellectual property. We’ve finally emerged from the year of the patent wars, where these companies exemplified the difficulties of our current patent system. So far they have all made it to the other side of a New Year alive, if not entirely unscathed. Though nobody expects the problems with... Mobile IP in the New Year() at patexia.com Thu, 03 Jan 2013 19:30:30 +0000 http://www.patexia.com/feed/2012-in-ip-20121227 Undoubtedly, 2012 was a big year for the intellectual property world. Significant developments not only in the United States at the USPTO but around the world will mean a very different landscape in years to come. Looking back at the some of the highlights, Patexia asked several prominent IP bloggers to give their take on the past twelve months and look ahead towards those to come. The responses we got spanned a range of important issues. Here are some of the highlights Internet At... 2012 in IP() at patexia.com Thu, 27 Dec 2012 23:01:01 +0000 http://www.patexia.com/feed/pros-and-cons-of-patents-and-prizes-20121221-2 "In a sense, the patent system is itself a prize system, albeit a peculiar one." In a 2007 paper Joseph Stiglitz, Columbia University professor and former World Bank chief economist, argues for more generalized use of prizes to stimulate and reward innovation. The peculiarity of the patent system that Stiglitz refers to is that the reward for innovation is in the form of a monopoly, preventing competitors from entering the market and allowing society's innovators to benefit ... Pros and cons of patents and prizes() at patexia.com Fri, 21 Dec 2012 19:23:23 +0000 http://www.patexia.com/feed/maximizing-value-of-ip-assets-20121218 If you have a moment, please take our short survey (3 questions!) to help us improve your experience. Looking back on 2012 and ahead to 2013, the increasingly important role of intellectual property becomes clear. More than ever, we've seen how simple ideas and inventions have transformed businesses, particularly in technology industries. Intellectual property lawsuits have kept the courts busy, and have demonstrated the tremendous under-exploited value of intellectual property... Maximizing value of IP assets() at patexia.com Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:12:12 +0000 http://www.patexia.com/feed/finally-a-unified-eu-patent-20121213 Early this week the European Union finally accomplished what has long seemed highly unlikely--a unified European Patent known as the "unitary" patent. Designed to address Europe's lagging role in the innovation world, the unitary patent should significantly facilitate patenting in the EU as well as lower costs and simplify litigation. The new patent system will be implemented in three parts approved this week in the European parliament and council. Twenty-five of the... Finally, a unified EU patent() at patexia.com Thu, 13 Dec 2012 19:30:30 +0000 http://www.patexia.com/feed/google-and-itc-go-through-the-motions-20121211 When Google purchased Motorola earlier this year, their intent to monopolize on Motorola's well-established patent portfolio was clear. As a result, Google's August move to file for an injunction with the International Trade Commission against several Apple products came as no surprise. While the question of infringement is (as usual) a difficult one, this week the ITC ruled against Google's injunction. Quite frankly, Google should have seen this coming (and maybe they did)... Google and ITC go through the motions() at patexia.com Tue, 11 Dec 2012 23:48:48 +0000