IP for Defense – Why Is It Recommended When Sued For Patent Infringement?

Facebook had bought 750 patents for networking, software, and other technologies from IBM when it was challenged in court by Yahoo for patent infringement. The bundle of patents from IBM helped Facebook ward off other lawsuits, back in 2012. 
Question arises - Could intellectual property be used as a defense in patent litigation? Is patent acquisition (from 3^rd parties) a good strategy to save millions in a patent lawsuit?
If yes, how to go forth with this?
IP professionals offer IP for Defense Services as a part of the Patent Litigation Support Services. This niche service vertical is designed to provide assistance that is critical when challenged by an assertion entity for patent infringement. In fact, it is one of the most viable options for a defendant facing a patent infringement lawsuit.

How it helps?

The basic information is derived about the plaintiff’s product lines and top players in the domain where he operates. On similar lines, defendant’s patents are organized among categories to identify those categories which match with the product lines of plaintiff. Then, it is assessed whether it is feasible to sign a cross-licensing deal. And this is first recourse, if it is feasible.
However, if it is not, defendants are advised on how they can buy or license patents from 3^rd parties. Patent mining and in-depth analysis is undertaken to identify who might have patents that plaintiff’s products might be infringing upon. These findings help defendant to strike a deal with the identified third party. And cross-licensing arrangement may also be explored after detailed study of the newly acquired patents.
IP Defense Support Services such as “IP for Defense” also explore (if defending party is willing to) the usefulness of defendant’s product and their marketability. For that purpose, manual analysis is done to check how the newly acquired patents can be extended to features of defendant’s products.
The point I wish to make here is that - patent buyouts are expensive but so is fighting a litigation suit. In fact, litigation costs more and so when challenged by an assertion entity, it is recommended that “IP for Defense” services are taken. Its results are often very useful in devising an alternative strategy that you might not have even considered in the first place.

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LG to launch quantum dot TVs in Early 2015

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Electronic market leader of South Korea, LG electronics Inc. will launch a new range of advanced  high-tech TV in early upcoming year 2015. A spokesperson from  LG told that the firm will soon going to sell TVs that incorporate quantum dot technology  early next year. The picture quantity will be supported and boosted by a film of tiny light emitting crystals which are embedded in normal liquid crystal display (LCD). The tech giant will be displaying quantum dot TVs in ultra-high definition of 55-inch and 65-inch at CES trade show next month in Las Vegas  

As per now  Japan’s Sony Corp. is the only seller of quantum  dot models in the market.

 On other hand The OLED TV remain expensive: a 65-inch ultra-high definition model launched in Korea this year was priced at $10,993. Whereas Sony quantum dot TV costs about $3,799, according to the Japanese firm's website.

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All You Need To Know About Patentability Searches

Patentability searches are aimed at searching the most relevant prior art, including – published patent applications, issued patents, and any other non-patent documents, to determine whether filing a patent application makes sense.

The best place to begin a patentability search is patent office websites such as USPTO, EPO etc. However, to ensure that no prior-art document remains hidden, asking a professional to conduct a patentability search applying tested strategies – keyword searching, classification searching, reviewing the forward and backward references etc. is a must. The patent search experts also dig into what is called as non-patent literature for prior art. It is acceptable and difficult to find.

Comprehensiveness is the key to a successful patentability search and ensures that quality of results will match the search quality of the EPO examiners and beaten most of the USPTO examiners. But it is time to call it quits when the same documents keep popping up over and over again. And if a prior art that describes your invention completely or renders it obvious surfaces in a novelty search, it is not advised that cost is incurred in patenting process.

IP Consultancy firms (KPOs) are most sought for Patentability Search Services. The technical experts working in such firms are capable of understanding the technology behind your invention to return exactly the kind of prior art results you are looking for.

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Five Surprising Inventions from Ancient times

 #Assyrian Nimrud lens- Oldest Telescope in the world

Assyrian Nimrud lens is known to be 3000-year-old piece of rock crystal which was dug out by Sir, John Layard in 1850 in Nimrud, in modern-day Iraq. It is oval in shape and is made  from natural rock crystal, this magnificent natural occurring crystal has focal length of  about 12cm and focal point about 11 cm from the flat side. Pettinato believes this was one of the first lens to be used in a telescope. 

#First Inventor of the Steam Engine-Hero of Alexandria

Hero of Alexandria was Greek mathematician and prudent engineer who is known for his invention of steam engine, his device is powdered through steam and known as aeolipile named after Aiolos ,God of winds. This amazing device was disremembered and never used properly until 1577, when the steam engine was ‘reinvented’ by the philosopher, astronomer and engineer, Taqu al-Din.

#The Incredible 2000-year-old Earthquake Detector

With around 2000 years ago, the Chinese inventor Zhang heng invented first seismoscope in 132 AD the ancient device is amazingly accurate in detecting earthquake waves from afar and did not depend on shaking of the site where the device is located

#The Baghdad Battery

The Baghdad Battery is a clay pot which encapsulates a copper cylinder an iron rod is suspended in the centre of the cylinder that doesn’t touches it, both the iron rod and copper cylinder are held in proper place with the help of an asphalt drug it was discovered in 1936 in village Khujut Rabu near Baghdad

#The Oldest Calendar in Scotland

In 2004 national trust for Scotland excavated an ancient site that led to revelation of sophisticated Calendar system that is around 10,000 years old. It allowed the observation of the mid-winter sunrise so that lunar calendar could be re-calibrated every year to bring it back in line with solar year

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What is Patent Docketing?

In intellectual property arena, patent docketing is prime method for managing and controlling patent application process. Basically it is kind of system that allows patent management in automated manner. Docketing is important tool for IP firms as it is quite cumbersome to organize the patent application processes of thousands of patents without some type of software package to keep a close watch on many deadlines and patent documents involved. Major firms hire docketing specialist to manage the patent docketing process.

In any law firm patent docketing process generates a great amount of paperwork. The docketer has task to correctly label each application document with file number and place it into correct part of patent file, it also consist of entering every  document in database so that attorney can  easily look up for a list of all documents in the application file when required. The docketing database can be utilized to alert of filing and other deadlines.

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Duties and Responsibilities of Patent Paralegal

Intellectual property is an intangible property which is associated with person’s creativity, an intellectual property includes music, artistic work, inventions, phrases design etc. IP rights may include patents, trademark, copyrights or trademark secrets. An IP paralegal assist their clients in patenting or trademarking their work to enforce patent rights if another party infringes upon them

Basically a Patent paralegal work for law firms, corporations, government preparing patent, trademark and copyright applications helping them with  patent litigation and conducting relevant  IP research.

We can say that patent paralegal act as point of contact between patent office, attorney and client, the intellectual property paralegal provide patentparalegal support by following up with the patent application and other material delivered to patent office, keep record of deadlines and answers the queries for all the parties engaged. This sort of work requires high level of organizational skills as well as ability to work with diverse people working synchronously with patent searcher and clients is an important part of making the job goes on smoothly.

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Legal Support Services by Sagacious IP

Sagacious IP legal support services are designed such that they cater to every client with end-to-end support through the entire Patent Litigation Lifecycle. For the ‘Defense Side’, we devise invalidity searches based on assertion by the plaintiff and take breadth of the assertion in to due consideration. We modify the searches (if required) modified to suit the way the infringed claims of the asserted patent have been construed. Our support is available globally as we conduct patent searches in over 16 languages and 100+ countries.

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Foreign Language Search Services Makes it Easy For Patent Applicants

As we all are well aware of the fact that prior art searching or patenting is a more of art that requires consistent approach and involvement of modern tools, technique and databases, every year inventors and business firms around the globe file patent applications which are in different foreign languages, hence the patent office collects in their database those patent and non-patent literature in the language as it is was applied.

For the patent searchers it is quite challenging task to find such foreign language patent documents, which demands reliable support of the people who are good at Foreign Language Searches, normally firms keeps dedicated foreign language search expert for example, if the patent document is in Russian language then experts having good command over Russian language will conduct Russian patent search. Similar Chinese patent search will be done by the person who has good command over Chinese language.

Hence in order to make most out of patent search it is important to hire professionals having good knowledge of offering language searches.

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Patent Monetization – A Lucrative Way of Patent Encashment

Being the patent owner of some product which carries a huge importance to the current market, this give rise to a possibility of excluding other entities in the market from selling and recreating the same product., the desirable results of patent litigation of the for the patent owner is a lot of one-time cash and prohibition of the unauthorized use of the product in the market. Hence the intellectual property licensing has gradually gained lot of economic importance.

Intellectual Property Monetization can be done in several ways:

Sell it on your own: Being the owner of intellectual property one can conduct a in-depth market research to find the gain insight about the market value of the patent property once

Engage a Broker: If you are unable to realize the true market value of your intellectual property through available market resources then it is good idea to seek the help of a broker having a good network of parties, interested in IP licensing have experience with the valuation of assets.

Public Auction: It is centralized way of selling patents in the market, where broker parties sold patent in the public through public auctions. The public auctions are much beneficial than private transactions. They come up with more controlled and loyal transaction process.

So it gain fruitful results of your patent products it is essential to develop a sound patent monetization strategy or otherwise acquire a patent monetization support of professionals.

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Why Patent Translation is Recommended?

For a patent application to become successfully approved several steps have to be followed and patent translation is one of those crucial steps involved in whole patent filing process.  Individual and business organizations from different part of world flies patent applications which are in different foreign languages, in order to convert the document into standard language for example For anybody who is applying for a patent in Russia, it is very important that the documents should be translated into Russian language, hence it is considered very tedious and expensive task that demands a reliable support of patent translators is required

To make this time consuming task of patent translation much easier, companies now-a-days provides machine translations services, the best thing about machine translation is that it is relatively cost-optimized as well as specific and accurate.

To avail a good patent translation services, it is important to get in touch with an experienced translation company which can provide you with skilled and qualified patent translators.



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Why We Require Defensive Publication Drafting?

In intellectual property world defensive publications which is strictly endorsed by USPTO  as an intellectual property rights management tools are documents that depicts the strategy  which is used by plantiff  to prevent  another  body  from gaining  a patent on the product, method or tool.  The defensive disclosure strategy  consist  of description  and artwork of particular device product or method  so that it enters the public domain and attain the status of prior art  therefore  Defensive Publishing disqualify the subsequent  patent application from being novel.

At the point when considering a defensive publication strategy, remember that your defensive disclosure can be utilized against you and also against your rivals. In the United States, when an innovator distributes his or her development, a one-year grace period guarantees that the designer's patent rights are not immediately vanishes. Publication quickly stifles most non-US patent rights, be that as it may, even those of the innovator. A decision to disclosure is along these lines a choice to irreversibly surrender potential patent rights. Such an essential choice ought to just be made in the setting of a thorough IP system. Seeing the potential effect of your defensive publications in light of an abnormal state methodology will decrease the likelihood of vital mistakes that could harm your IP position.

In general, Defensive publication should be drafted when:

•         The price of patenting outweighs the benefit of the patent domination
•    The invention cannot be safeguarded in a way that is adequately secure to support trade-secret protection.

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LG Partners With Google in 10-year Patent Cross-Licensing Agreement

US tech giant Google and Korean smartphone manufacturer LG has signed a decade long agreement that will witness sharing their patents over a wide range of products and technologies, this patent agreement will cover the existing patents as well as those filed over next 10 years between two tech giants.

This deal will open the doors for both the companies to work freely on each other’s products and technologies without any fear of  patent litigation, both the companies will be able to embed unique technologies in their products without any prior consent.

 This  decade long agreement with LG give a clear indication that Google desires to keep on good terms with key Android partners ,In January this year Google  signed  a similar patent deal with Samsung to remove patent barriers.

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A cute robotic penguin for observing the behavior of animals in their habitats

For ecologists, the greatest challenge is to observe the behavior of the animals in their natural habitats without disturbing them, but recently biologists got away with this classical challenge by incorporating a baby penguin robotic spy, Designed and developed by Yvon Le Maho of the University of Strasbourg in France this remote controlled rover turns out to be a great substitute for intrusive human observers.

As Emperor penguins are not habitual to human intervention in their natural habitats, running away from them is quite natural thus preventing the scientist and observers from noting down some critical parameters like, hearty rate, health body temperature and other parameters of penguin.

The first version of rover made of fiber glass and did not scare the real birds. In the first attempt, the scientists sent the four-wheeled rover into the colony, Strangely, the penguins permitted the rover to get near, and their heart rates increased less and reverted to regular more quickly than when the identical chore was done by a scientists with a hand-held device.

Upon halt, the rover—unlike humans—did not muddle colony assembly, and strain swiftly ceased, thus, rovers can diminish human commotion of wild animals and the resulting systematic bias.

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A laser which is capable of shooting down low-flying drones

In yet another successful R&D in defense arena, China has successfully unveils a highly accurate laser weapon system that can shoot down the drones flying at relatively low altitude, As stated by Xinhua news agency this advanced one of its kind laser system has a range of two kilometer and can make the small aircrafts fall on the ground within five seconds of acquiring the target.

According to Xinhua it is expected to play a critical role in maintaining security during important events in urban areas. It is effective up to a maximum elevation of 500 meters and against aircraft or drones flying at up to 50 m/s, Xinhua said.

This innovative development will surely strengthen the capability of China of deploying tight security  for both domestic and international events.

CELL SQUEEZING PLATFORM- AN INNOVATIVE APPROACH TO CONTROL THE CELL BEHAVIOR

From the labs of Prof. Robert Langer and Prof. Klavs Jensen  of  Massachusetts Institute of Technology the long existing  incapability of old technologies for Intracellular delivery of macromolecules   is now overcome  with the development of  new   advanced  microfluidic methods for  intracellular delivery, The concept of cell squeezing states that  a rapid  disruption of the cell membrane is induced due to squeezing which is transient in nature and thus allows intracellular  delivery  of macromolecules  without bringing in use of any toxic  external factor. This research and development eventually led to Cell Squeezing platform.

Microfluidic delivery platform is a device, is made up of channels carved into a silicon microchip through which cells at first can stream freely. Nonetheless, as the cells travel through the device like an inward tube along a water slide—the channel width limits until a cell ends up in a tight spot—compelled to fit through a space that is narrower than the cell. The supple cell film permits the cell to press through the constriction. Nonetheless, the constrained, quick change fit as a fiddle makes brief gaps in the cell film, without forever harming or executing the cell.

The application of Cell squeezing are highly impacting  some examples are  training the immune system to fight the Cancer, regenerating damaged tissue understanding sickness mechanisms and authenticating drug candidates for clinical trials.