Is your patent a vanity piece of paper for your office wall? Or is it a reliable, defendable, assertable, property right? The difference is often quality. Is your patent simply a transactional cost and a large pile of legal bills for your startup? Or is it a leverageable asset worthy of attracting precious investment dollars, worth its cost in multiples of valuation? The difference is often quality. Is your patent application only good enough to get through the examination process? Or has it been crafted to stand the tests of time and varied audiences if you later need to assert that document against an infringer, find yourself litigating with it in an Article 3 Court at the hands of a judge and jury, God forbid, end up having to defend its validity at the PTAB, or even needing to use it to block pirated imports at the International Trade Commission? The difference is often quality. Quality will be our focus for a good chunk of the remainder of this season. What goes into a quality patent, and where possible, how do you get it without breaking the bank? ** Episode Overview ** In this first episode of our quality series, Kristen Hansen and the panel discuss: ⦿ What do we mean when we say patent quality? ⦿ Why is patent quality important? ⦿ How to balance quality and budget ⦿ The importance of searching, continuations, and draftsperson domain expertise ⦿ Very practical tips, tricks, examples, and Kristen’s Musts for drafting quality applications https://www.aurorapatents.com/patently-strategic-podcast.html
The document describes the intellectual property (IP) research services provided by Aeren IP. Aeren IP conducts prior art searches, patentability analyses, freedom to operate analyses, and other IP tasks. It has experts in various technical domains and can perform searches in multiple languages without translators. Aeren IP aims to deliver high-quality results on time through its experienced staff and proprietary tools and databases. It also provides IP portfolio management services including patent drafting, filing, and commercialization support through licensing and technology transfers.
Presentation by Christina Mayr for STC Carolina event November 29, 2018. Check out the event recap on the STC Carolina blog: https://www.stc-carolina.org/2018/12/07/event-recap-finding-the-right-authoring-tool-webinar/
Here are the key points about a divisional patent application in India: - A divisional application can be filed when the original application claims more than one invention. - It is filed to divide the scope of the original application into separate applications for each invention claimed. - This is done voluntarily by the applicant or in response to an objection raised by the patent examiner during prosecution. - The divisional application can only be filed when the original application is still pending. - It inherits the priority date of the original parent application. - The subject matter of the divisional must be supported by the disclosure of the original application. - Divisional applications are a useful tool to pursue patent protection for
Computers and software inventions can be patented under utility patents in most jurisdictions. Some key points: - Hardware aspects of computers (e.g. novel computer architecture) can be patented as machines or manufactures under utility patents. - Software inventions are also patentable if they produce a "useful, concrete and tangible result". This includes applications, algorithms, user interfaces etc. Merely presenting information or abstract ideas on a generic computer would not be patentable. - Business methods implemented via software can also be patented, though some jurisdictions have additional criteria for such patents. - Specific graphical user interface features and layouts can be covered by design patents if they satisfy the criteria of being novel and non-obvious design.
Computer software inventions can generally be patented under a utility patent in most jurisdictions. Some key points: - Utility patents protect the functional and operational aspects of software inventions. This is the most common type of patent for software. - Software inventions that involve a novel and non-obvious technical solution to a technical problem can qualify for a utility patent. The invention needs to have a technical effect or impact. - Purely abstract software ideas, algorithms, business methods, etc. without a technical implementation may not be patentable subject matter. The eligibility criteria vary between jurisdictions. - In addition to utility patents, design patents can also protect the visual/aesthetic design aspects of a software user interface in some cases.
Determining whether a patent is a "good" asset can be tricky. With a patent's value typically being realized almost ten years after its grant, how can we know the value of any newly-granted patent? We offer concrete metrics as to how to gauge patent value at each point of its life cycle.
This document provides instructions and information for an FDP webinar. It includes directions to mute microphones, submit questions through a chat, and notes that the sequence of content may vary. It also provides a link to slides that will be shared on slideshare and information on how to read different parts of a patent document, including the bibliographic data, field of invention, claims, and more. Key details on different sections of a patent are summarized to help understand what information each section provides.
Some basics of exploratory testing coupled with experiences, hints and tools for exploratory testing, and wrapped up by a view to the future of exploratory testing. Presentation given 19.10.2016 in Soeul, South Korea in SSTC and TMMi international conference 2016.
The seminar will provide strategic, operating and execution perspectives on how to build the organically developed patent portfolio in growth-stage technology businesses. Attention in particular will be given to how to spring ahead, even if from a more modest start, by anticipating the future state of the industry, its enabling technology and most critical resources. Note that this seminar, unlike many about patents and IP, will not focus on the basics of patent law, prosecution, interpretation or recent cases. Instead, the emphasis for this session will be on the executive and chief technologist level views of optimizing patent portfolio impact to support larger strategic and financial objectives for the scale-up stage technology enterprise. The first part of the seminar will cover general management considerations overseeing patent strategy. The second part will describe how to use an invention session process to rapidly build the volume and quality of forward-looking invention disclosures to build a high quality patent pipeline.