Posts Tagged: "Industry Event"

IPWatchdog® CON2020 has gone VIRTUAL!   The IPWatchdog® Virtual CON2020 will endeavor to address the issues facing innovators, creators and brand owners as they find it increasingly difficult to monetize their proprietary creations in an economy where many large enterprises no longer want to pay for what they choose to implement and/or sell, and there is scant legal recourse to…

Intel recently announced that Apple will buy the majority of Intel’s Modem business for $1 billion.  Intel’s modem business currently has about 6,000 assets relating to 3G, 4G, and 5G cellular standards and 1,700 assets relating to the wireless implementation of cellular standards. According to IAM, Intel is hoping to sell these patents separately from the smartphone modem business, although…

Standard Setting Organizations (SSOs) exist to identify and select the best innovations the entire industry will build upon. Those contributing patented technologies are asked to provide a FRAND assurance, in essence committing to provide access to Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) on a fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory basis. SEPs represent pioneering innovation that the entire industry will build upon. They represent…

Best practices in patent portfolio maintenance are often handed down or identified based on practical reasons such as budget limitation. But is this the right way to decide what to keep and cut? What about your competitors and their activity? While the data we’re using is general in nature, the same type of analysis can be used to examine behavior…

Join Gene Quinn, President, and CEO of IPWatchdog, Inc., and John White, patent procedure expert and creator of the #1 patent bar review course in the country, for 1 hour of ethics CLE on June 19, 2019, at 5pm ET. This ethics presentation will be divided into the following three segments: United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Rules of Professional Conduct,…

AIA Best Practices: A Holistic Approach to Patent Preparation and Prosecution Since the passage of the America Invents Act (AIA) many things have changed, including some very basic advice given to clients. It used to be commonplace to advise clients that it was a best practice to do a patent search, identify what the patentable invention most likely was going…

At its heart, an assertion campaign relies on Evidence of Use (EoU), to demonstrate the existence of ongoing infringement. If no one is using the technology covered by your patent portfolio then your patents are not as valuable. Conversely, when there is EoU the value of a patent portfolio is greater. Of course, EoU is not binary; the stronger the…

  China is innovating at a more rapid pace than ever, thus gaining substantial influence on the global IP landscape. Chinese entities are becoming major patent holders in technologies of the future, with foreign companies experiencing better business opportunities and opportunities for collaboration. This has a major impact on the rest of the world’s IP strategy. But, how does it…

Join Gene Quinn, President and CEO of IPWatchdog, Inc., on Thursday, June 20, 2019 at 2pm EDT for a special free webinar discussion focusing on the Alice decision five years later. Joining Gene for this special webinar will be Drew Hirshfeld, Commissioner for Patents at the United States Patent and Trademark Office, who will discuss how the USPTO is handling patent eligibility today.

Five years ago the United States Supreme Court issued a decision in Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank, 134 S.Ct. 2347 (2014), which significantly changed the way courts and patent examiners evaluated patent eligibility of computer implemented innovation in the United States. Please join us on Monday, June 24, 2019 and Tuesday, June 25, 2019, for a wide-ranging discussion of Alice and how to protect computer related innovation in America. 

Ask the Experts: What actions are needed to prepare for future patent disputes? When markets undergo technological cross-pollination and are driven by interoperability, connectivity and data sharing, the need for standards (formal or informal) becomes significant. The typical result is an exponential rise in the number of patent filings. With the prevalent over-declarations by patent owners and a growing number…

Webinar 2 of 4 – Improve Impact of Everyday Decisions Factoring in USPTO Outcome Predictability. March 28th, 2019 This webinar is part of our Canada Webinar Series: Empowering Canadian Businesses to Dominate the USPTO Patent (Game) ___________________________________________________________ In the first webinar of our Canada webinar series, we demonstrated that the outcome of your patent application at the USPTO is predictable.…

The rule is easy enough to articulate, but little surrounding the Duty of Candor mandated by Rule 56 is easy. What is the structure of “materiality”?  Should disclosure be focused only on the most relevant prior art references? Should everything that is even tangentially related be disclosed to the Office? Does the Office and the Federal Circuit follow the same rules consistently? What disclosure is required before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB)? How do you manage the duty to disclose, and choose what to disclose, when actions in foreign patent offices start arriving late in the U.S. prosecution?  Are there best practices to work with applicants, and how to avoid error?

The ktMINE Emerging Technologies webinar will discuss, through the use of IP data, why law firms, corporations, and consultants need to assess the risks emerging technologies pose to business strategies. This data can help guide decision-makers to develop a complete IP engagement strategy that supports their business. Eric Podlogar, IP Market Lead will utilize the following technologies: – Blockchain –…