Invalidating Design Patent: How we found Prior Art in a Museum?
We find prior art in a lot of unconventional places. Sitcoms, Pop culture magazines, FCC ID databases, Internet archives – Well, almost every place where you would least think of finding prior art. Having have found the impossible from places unimaginable, we were a bit awed when we found prior art in a Museum. Albeit an […]
7 things an Attorney must share before a Patent Validity Search
The purpose of a patent validity search is to validate the enforceability of claims of a patent. If you a plaintiff, a patent validity search will help you know if your patent is going to survive in a courtroom or not. If you are a defender, a patent invalidity search may help you invalidate one […]
Why GreyB is one of the best Patent Search Firms that can provide you Relevant Prior Art?
You would have handled cases where you gave the same search to multiple firms and only a handful returned with the art that you were looking for. Why is it that some search firms find the right prior-art while others don’t? If we look broadly, they all operate on the same data, right? If search […]
How did we find Prior Art in a Sitcom?
I’m a self-confessed fan of sitcoms and movies. A binge-watcher by nature, I often spend weekends endlessly staring at my laptop screen, with munchies on my side, so that I don’t have to hit pause for trivial reasons such as hunger pangs. I love watching sitcoms! How often it happens that binge-watching shows help you […]
Patent Invalidation – 4 Instances Where We Invalidated Patents using Unconventional Methods
Click to read this article in Chinese 🇨🇳 What exactly is the objective of an invalidation search? That’s an easy question. Of course, it is to find a result – one that discloses every aspect of the patent in question (Called as Tier I). If not so, we look for a number of results that […]
How we found references in non patent literature without performing an NPL search?
Prior art search is a big part of the work we do. When we started, we were convinced that prior art searches should never be run with a set framework where only the following few defined steps will lead to a result. Since X type results can be anywhere and they do not follow a […]
Prior art search – 4 Cases where finding reference was next to impossible
Invalidation searches are not a cakewalk. That’s why a lot of time many prior art search service providers or your in-house team fail to return with a result you needed. Weak results or no results lead to weak arguments that hamper your chances to win litigation. Well, it turns out, you can find results if […]
How we use 3G and GSM concepts to invalidate 4G LTE Patents?
Of late, we have been performing a lot of invalidation searches on patents of 4G LTE. And I noticed a weird pattern – call it insight if you would like to – that I didn’t discover earlier while working on patents of 4G. The technique that I used in this patent prior art search for […]
BlackBerry Vs. Nokia – Why we believe US8861433 can be invalidated?
I am very fond of Nokia and its products. Mostly because I feel they have greatly contributed to developing various 3GPP standards. So when I found out that Blackberry was suing Nokia (Source) and that too for a 3GPP related invention, I was intrigued. To quench my curiosity, I took a deep dive into the […]
The Cloud Communication Platform Giant Twilio’s Patent US8738051 Can Get Invalidated
Less than a month ago, Twilio Inc. filed a suit against Telesign Corporation for willful patent infringement. According to the complaint by Twilio, Telesign was a previous customer, and its co-founder and vice-president of product strategy Stacy Stubblefield had a private Twilio account. Twilio accused that Telesign’s engineers learned of the technology and API used by […]
Cantigny vs Intermatic – How Intermatic could win this patent fight?
Do you know that nearly one-third of the patents involved in litigation were found to be invalid? Well, if you feel this number is high then you will find it difficult to accept our belief – We feel nearly 50% of the patents can be invalidated. We have been performing a lot of preliminary analysis […]
Smart Ways to Perform Patent Invalidity Searches for Mathematical Expressions
Have you ever had a case where you had to perform an invalidation search and you need a prior art for a claim at the heart of which has a mathematical expression? Needless to say, you wouldn’t like gambling your case on just any prior art. Are you wondering what could be sophisticated approaches here for […]
This One Publication Can Invalidate Most 3D Printing Patents
Patent thickets, broad patents, and patents covering vague and combinatorial claims have exponentially increased in number over the past few decades. Cloaking under the name of patent strategy, companies often try to get a lockdown on a technology domain by filing patents in a manner that it gets difficult to circumvent such patents. One such example of […]
How Technology Timeline Can Help Find Hidden Prior Art
With the passage of time, technological terms have evolved drastically. Earlier phones were called radiotelephones, later as mobile stations, and now we use user equipment. Did you also consider how advancements in technology’s timeline can help in searching for challenging prior art? Great! We also did and found that they helped. Further, using a technological […]
Shane Chen’s Patent on Hoverboard Which Threatened over 25 Companies Can get Invalidated
Do you also believe that a patent protects your invention? Well, Sorry for bursting the bubble but it’s a myth. 90% of patents are valueless and couldn’t be defended. A patent only gives you ownership over your invention. It’s the law that actually protects it. Having a patent over a product doesn’t make it immune […]
Attorneys, Are You Getting Quality Prior Art Search Services?
Whenever one gets into a problem, the right thing to do is to identify and apply the best solution. However, one can’t decide if a solution is best unless it is compared with other available solutions. This is applicable across the industry where every client is dealing with a service provider and needs a benchmark […]
