Is Your Patent Getting The Life It Deserves?
Patent Term Adjustments (PTAs) alter the patent term and are meant to account for delays in patent prosecution, [...]
Patent: Use of Common Sense in an Obviousness Analysis
The Federal Circuit decided Arendi S.A.R.L vs Apple Inc. in August of this year. The Court ruled that the [...]
How do I select the right prior-art search professional?
A patentability search and analysis are carried out to ensure that an invention would meet the novelty and [...]
5 Indicators to Predict Patent Litigation Outcomes
If you are involved in any patent litigation, whether you are the plaintiff or defendant, you naturally want [...]
Deploy Patent Prosecution Analytics to Accelerate the Product Development Cycle: A Comparative Case Study
Patent prosecution analytics can provide valuable insight into the performance of an organization’s IP operations just as other [...]
Patent Renewal Rates under Different Renewal Period Schemes
In order to keep a US patent in force, the US Patent & Trademark Office requires that patent [...]
IP Managers – Don’t Expose Your Company to IP Management Risk
Intellectual Property Management can be exciting and rewarding but can also be very unforgiving if you don’t do [...]
Are You the IP Manager?
Usually in large companies, IP is managed by a senior IP counsel who runs [...]
Intellectual Asset Management Should be Affordable and Easy
For rapidly growing innovative companies, intellectual assets (patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets) are the ultimate source of [...]
MaxVal Releases the PTA Wizard – A DIY Tool to Calculate USPTO Patent Term Adjustments
MaxVal has just released the PTA Wizard – a powerful do-it-yourself tool for verifying the patent term adjustment [...]
MaxVal’s Litigation Databank Now Includes PTAB Search and Alerts*
MaxVal’s Litigation Databank contains a comprehensive database of over 71,000 cases from the U.S. District Courts, the Court [...]
MaxVal’s Max-IDS: New Features Make It Easier Than Ever For Your Team To Manage Information Disclosures
Max-IDS is MaxVal’s cloud-based, hosted, Information Disclosure/Reference Management solution. Max-IDS is much more than a form generator. Max-IDS [...]
Twelve Things to Consider When Choosing a Patent Life Cycle Management Vendor
Partnering with a Patent Life cycle Management Company lets you outsource routine administrative responsibilities. This allows you to [...]
MaxVal’s Max-Insight: Popular Toolset for Patent Professionals Gets Better
Max-Insight is a suite of tools that is offered by MaxVal for patent professionals. The tools are designed [...]
Competition Monitoring Across Patent Lifecycle: Using 5 Powerful Email Alerts
The patent landscape is tougher and more complicated than ever before. The ever-increasing amount of patent litigation cases [...]
5 Everyday Tasks of Patent Attorneys/Paralegals (and Instant Solutions)
Patent attorneys and paralegals handle a sizable list of routine tasks for their clients every day. Some are [...]