Posts Tagged: "IPWatchdog Webinars"

Patents are forward-looking indicators of where a company is planning to, or already, focusing its innovation efforts. Not only can you see where a specific company is focusing innovation efforts, but patent analytics can identify entire industries that are growing at rapid rates. During this webinar, we will discuss key findings from a deep-dive analysis performed by Kolin Schunck at…

One of the major challenges when licensing, transacting, or managing SEPs is that there is no public database that provides information about verified Standard Essential Patents (SEPs). Standard-setting organizations (“SSOs”) such as ETSI (4G / 5G), IEEE (Wi-Fi), or ITUT (HEVC/VVC) maintain databases of so-called self-declared patents to document the FRAND obligation. However, the SSOs do not determine whether any…

Innovation is to thank for many of the medicines, treatments, and technologies that help save lives and save the world on a daily basis. From insulin to water treatment, there are innovations everywhere that help make the world a better place. This last year has certainly been one that no one could have seen coming. Intellectual property has played an…

For the past four decades foreign companies have been confronted with Chinese trademark squatting. Trademark squatting, in which someone else registers your trademark, suddenly prevents you from using your brand in China. Causing massive headaches every year, foreign companies are often left with little choice but to cough up huge sums to buy back the trademark, rebrand their product or…

Abuse of the domain name system (DNS) is increasing at an alarming rate. Phishing attacks, for example, doubled in volume during 2020 alone. The pharmaceutical, fashion, technology, retail, and financial services industries are among the hardest hit, with threats on the rise across the board. Trends in domain name arbitration activity provide key insights into the problem, including how brand…

Patent landscape monitoring is about so much more than simply identifying white space. For those who engage with strategic purpose, patent landscape monitoring is about competitive intelligence, whether that intelligence presents itself in the form of competitors encroaching upon your marketplace with new products, or copyists who are or likely will be engaging in infringement. In this webinar, the panel…

Securing a patent in 2021 is a tough job. Courts continue to ask for more disclosure and better claims, and that’s when they aren’t moving the goal posts on patent practitioners. Meanwhile, clients demand flat fee billing and want to pay less every year. But what if there were a way for you to work with clients to show them…

Counterfeit products are an enormous problem for businesses all over the world, from consumer goods, to software, to pharmaceuticals, counterfeits have become nearly ubiquitous. Counterfeiters easily (and conservatively) cost brand owners many hundreds of billions of dollars each year. Given the low risk of getting caught, high-profit margins, and often lackluster and uncoordinated enforcement regimes, fighting counterfeits is an ever-growing…

With the recent accessibility of big data sets and powerful computing systems, artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly used across industries to generate predictions. A human is always initially involved to program the model and determine any learning objective, but the model may evolve to generate results not foreseen by the human. If the result is new, non-obvious, and useful, should…

For innovative companies the life blood is having engineers and scientists who produce invention disclosures. Unfortunately, as good as they are at creating, engineers and scientists are generally far less equipped to explain what it is that they have created, which creates an obstacle from the start. As every patent attorney can attest, often invention disclosures lack concrete description at…

Innovations relating to power and power consumption are an increasingly hot topics as society works to reduce our power footprint by reducing power consumption and moving away from reliance on fossil fuels. As power related innovation continues to advance, implementations are continually morphing from one domain to into another – in manufacturing, solar, data centers, automotive, robotics, consumer products, mobile…

Trademark opposition proceedings provide trademark owners a relatively quick means to challenge the trademark application of another prior the challenged application being granted. Meanwhile, a cancellation proceeding offers a trademark owner a procedural mechanism to challenge an issued trademark at the Intellectual Property Office rather than in court. Different timelines, grounds for challenge, standards of proof, and appeals rules apply…

Insufficient patent protection and enforcement in China has been a long-standing frustration not just for international but also domestic rights holders. After several rounds of revisions and years in the making – the revised PRC Patent Law entered into force on June 1, 2021. The fourth amendments bring substantial changes including the creation of a patent linkage system, introduces an…

Markets are changing, technology is changing, and the approach to negotiation and patent litigation is changing. Still, some things are constant; namely, competent technical information is necessary to make data-driven decisions. Given the benefit of hindsight and reflection, what information has proven to be the most persuasive, most helpful documentation or evidence to ultimately achieve the best possible outcome? Join Gene…