Earlier this year, our Senior Consultant, Benoit Geurts and Technology Analyst, Robin Walton presented at the Helmet…

Canatelo  filed a lawsuit against Toshiba on Feb 2013 (3:13-cv-01086) asserting the claims covered in the US patents 7310111 and 6476858, both entitled ‘Video monitoring and security system’ and currently assigned[i] to Canatelo (source: MaxVal’s Assignment Database).…

by Maggie Tamburro



When, if ever, is initial expert consulting work performed by assistants to a testifying expert in danger of being subject to discovery by an opposing party?

Wait – you say – the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure protect against another party’s discovery of consulting experts retained in anticipation of litigation who are not expected to be called at trial. But at…

On August 2012, Medicis filed a complaint against Actavis for infringing the patent US8236816. The patent is entitled ‘2.times.2.times.2 week dosing regimen for treating actinic keratosis with pharmaceutical compositions formulated with 3.75 % imiquimod’. The patent was issued in Aug 2012 and expires[i] in Dec 2029. The patent is currently…

Data Carriers, a non-practicing company that a holds number of technology patents, had filed lawsuits against Samsung, Barnes & Noble, HTC and AT&T in Mar, 2013 in the District Court of Delaware, which have now come to a close. The suits were filed for infringement of US patent number 5388198 entitled ‘Proactive presentation of automating features to a computer user’. The patent was issued on Feb 07 1995 and…

HI everyone!

Let me introduce my IP blog (iplaw.hu), which has a Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/iplawblog?sk=wall), Twitter (https://twitter.com/IPLawBlog) and Pinterest (http://pinterest.com/mezobarnabas/) profile as well. The blog deals with mainly trademark, domain name and design issues.

Searcher.io is a patent search and analysis tool developed by Docracy Inc, already known for their library of open source contracts. Searcher.io enables users to effectively analyze large amounts of text for linguistic similarities to existing patent applications, in a simpler and more affordable way.  And before you acquire expensive legal and…

With the Med-Tech Innovation Expo now in full swing and with ClearViewIP's interest in medical technology, we took a look back at our previous patent landscape report on Home Health Diagnostics, Microfluidics & IP to identify the key players in the market and predict which technologies may…

A declaration of non-infringement was filed on Apr 27, 2010 by Celegene against a series of patents owned by Cyclacel - ‘Skov Patents’ listed below:

• 6403555 entitled Depsipeptide and congeners thereof for use as immunosuppressants
• 6548479 entitled…

On March 28, Apple Inc. appeared in court in Shanghai to defend charges that Siri, its voice-recognition, personal-assistant software, allegedly infringes a Chinese patent. The plaintiff and owner of the patent, Zhizhen Internet Technology Co., claims its version of the software has over 100 million users in China and is requesting the court to ban all manufacturing or sales of Apple’s product in China.

This was not the first time Apple faced patent infringement claims in China. Last…

Steelhead Licensing filed a case (1:13-cv-00033) against Apple in Jan 2013. The case was filed for infringing the patent US5491834 entitled ‘Mobile radio handover initiation determination’. The patent is currently…

Here is a quick summary of all the coverage updates and interface improvements on both the PatBase and PatBase Express platforms for Spring 2013!

This post focuses on the use of text comparison tools for analyzing patent claims. Patent analysts, conducting micro-level analysis on collections of patent documents, are taught to focus on the claims within the portfolio. The right to exclude provided by a patent covers the items found and described in the claims and, as such, it can be argued that they are the most critical part of the document. The ability to quickly and accurately compare the text of the claims within a patent family,…

Welcome to a refreshingly smarter way of working with Patent Data!

Searching through vast patent databases, sorting, filtering,…