The most underrated feature of GreyB’s IDS Manager
When I joined GreyB last year as part of the marketing team, my first week was dedicated to learning about the in-house tools and understanding what sets our tools apart. One tool which caught my attention, given the queries we received on it, was the IDS Manager. Further, the keyword that separated GreyB’s tool from the […]
Life of a Paralegal before and after the IDS Manager
“You don’t know the value of the best until you’ve experienced the worst,” I blurted out loud as I went through the journal of a paralegal, amazed at how his life took a turn for the best. While scrolling through my daily emails, I stumbled across an email shared by one of our IDS Manager […]
5 Best practices to follow while filing Information Disclosure Form (IDS)
Our operational costs have been reduced by 50% and prosecution time is 30% faster, which has led to a 25% increase in profit. – Mike, one of our clients, filed over 20,000 (Information Disclosure Form) IDS last year. Did you know that it isn’t just Mike? A number of our clients were concentrating the majority […]
How to select the best legal software tool?
I’ve seen docketing systems missing lots of basic checks that can be programmed in a day. For instance, I’ve experienced IDS filing systems that do not check if cited references are in sync with family members. These are basic checks that’d be in the muscle memory of a paralegal working on IDS Preparation. I am […]
Patent Licensing Insights: Insights on Recent Patents Acquired by Samsung
Patent Licensing Insights is a section featuring insights/trends from our in-house tool BOS, which can help anybody in designing and picking appropriate patent monetization and acquisition strategies. Short for Business Opportunity for Sales (not a great name but we love the abbreviation), the BOS tool: Onto the insights. Recently, Samsung acquired 52 US assets from Nokia. A transaction involving […]
IDS Management Simplified – Designing the ideal tool for your IDS needs!
In the previous article of this series, we talked about the need for an IDS management system. We focused on various problems and solutions related to IDS management our clients discussed with us. You can check that article from here – Say goodbye to Information Disclosure Statement woes! In our experience, we found that every […]
This Tool can help bid Goodbye to your Information Disclosure Statement woes!
Information Disclosure Statement (IDS) puts a heavy administrative burden of ‘Duty of Disclosure’ on IP professionals, both in corporations and law firms managing US patents. This duty to disclose known material prior to art applies to all the people involved in preparing the patent application. That is, not only the applicant but the patent attorneys […]
Patent Licensing Insights: Insights on Flirtey’s Newly Issued Patent on Drone Delivery
BOS Insights is a section featuring insights/trends from our in-house tool BOS, which can help you in designing and picking appropriate patent monetization and acquisition strategies. Short for Business Opportunity for Sales, the BOS tool: Can help find prospects that would be willing to in-license or purchase your patents; Make your monetization campaign plain sailing; and Find […]
Patent Licensing Insights: These 2 Cloud Computing Patents should be on your acquisition list
BOS Insights is a section featuring insights/trends from our in-house tool BOS, which can help you in designing and picking appropriate patent monetization and acquisition strategies. Short for Business Opportunity for Sales, the BOS tool: Can help find prospects that would be willing to in-license or purchase your patents; Make your monetization campaign plain sailing; […]
Patent Licensing Insights: Blackberry’s portfolio can pose a litigation threat to approx 2000+ companies
If you’re a patent professional who likes to keep track of ongoing patent licensing campaigns, Blackberry might be on the top of your list. The Waterloo, Ontario based company has sued social media and search giants like Facebook, Twitter, Snap, and Google for infringing its patents. The aim of the campaign isn’t to protect BlackBerry […]
GreyB’s Patent Ranking Engine Helps a Patent Counsel in Monetization
Imagine a situation where you are collating a patent portfolio for monetization or there’s a plan to acquire patents. This is like investing in gold or platinum, sort of a difficult call, isn’t it? Before putting huge efforts into portfolio formation, you would like to get positive indications on the patents so that you can […]
What we learned from attending a random meeting in San Francisco?
An interesting thing happened when Deepak, Chakshu, Anmol, and I were in San Francisco in March this year. We were there for the Strata Conference, to collect the Edison Award that we had won for our tool Catalyst, and for a few client meetings. SF is a geeky place – big companies, engineers, entrepreneurs – […]
An Unconventional Business Development Strategy for IP Law Firms
In IP law firms, partners often face the daunting responsibility of building and implementing a business development strategy for the firm. These ‘Business Development’ (BD) activities are highly important for the firm too, as they contribute to the firm’s growing demand for additional revenue each year. However, for most patent prosecution attorneys, whose career has […]
GreyFox – A Tool That Helps Sell or License Undervalued Patents
One of the major concerns for corporations is how to sell their undervalued patents. Another concern they face is to increase the value of their good patents as thousands of good patents get abandoned every year just because they mistakenly get considered as patents having no value. We feel this happens because of two reasons: The decision is […]
Smart Patent Prosecution – How Patent Examiner Analytics can help save time and money?
Having a sound prosecution strategy is as exigent to the growth of a portfolio as is the necessity of a sound patent strategy for the development of a business. And like every business has its own version of patent strategy; prosecution strategies used by counsel can vary based on the situation. The question remains — Which […]
NEO – How This One Tool Helps Find Better Prior Art?
Race of finding better prior art that can influence an IPR or patent litigation is the need of the hour. Such searches have become increasingly important in recent times, given the huge increase in the number of litigations and IPRs filed with every passing day. However, locating a bang-on prior-art is not a piece of […]
