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Amazon APEX: A New Cost-Effective Venue for Enforcing Patent Rights
Amazon's Patent Evaluation Express (APEX) is an expedited process that allows U.S. utility patent holders to enforce their rights against...
May 30, 2025


Patent Brokerage: A Comprehensive Guide
In today’s economy, intellectual property (IP) assets, especially patents, hold significant financial and strategic value. As innovation...
Oct 25, 2024


Adapting Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) for Accurate Patent Valuation
Valuing patents is a crucial aspect of intellectual property management and financial analysis. Patents, as intangible assets, often hold...
Aug 6, 2024


ITC: Understanding Section 337 of the United States Tariff Act and its Storied Evolution
According to Section 337, it is illegal to engage in import trade when a U.S. patent, copyright, registered trademark, or mask work is violated. Moreover, Section 337 proclaims illegal additional unfair business practices and unfair activities that have the potential to destroy or significantly harm domestic industries, obstruct the development of such industries, or impede or monopolize trade and commerce in the United States. These practices include unfair methods of compet
Dec 18, 2023


Patent Pools for Efficient Sharing of Technology
A patent pool is a contract between two or more patent owners to licence one or more of their patents to each other or to third parties
May 18, 2022


Augmented Reality (AR) in Car Navigation
The pivotal motive of augmented reality technology in navigation systems is to assist the user in providing the useful information and...
Apr 4, 2022


How to Declare a Patent as a Standard Essential Patent (SEP)?
Standards play an important role, especially in telecommunication, to maintain uniformity in the workflow of various technologies.
Feb 4, 2022


Blockchain for Media Streaming
Blockchain has the potential to assist the media streaming industry significantly. The key characteristics of blockchain's shared ledger...
Jan 10, 2022


What is a Patent Box?
A patent box is a low-tax corporate tax structure utilized to encourage R&D by taxing patent profits differently than other revenues.
Dec 16, 2021


Protecting UI/UX Design Using Intellectual Property
UI/UX design is an essential part of any website and the on-screen controls you used to perform various functions on web apps, make up GUI
May 18, 2021


What is Doctrine of Equivalents?
While there are multiple ways to skin a cat (see discussion on indirect infringement and direct infringement here ), patent infringement can occur in two forms. The first is literal infringement. Literal infringement is when every aspect of the claim is being infringed upon in much the same way the claim was written. The second one, more complex, is an infringement under the doctrine of equivalents. Under this doctrine, the patentee can argue infringement even if each and eve
Sep 2, 2020


Can You Sue The Government For Patent Infringement?
A patent is a contract between the patent owner and the government that gives the patent owner the legal right to exclude others from...
Mar 31, 2020


Indirect Patent Infringement: What is it and How to prove it?
Receiving a patent does not automatically provide patent holders with security against patent infringement.
Feb 4, 2020


When Claim Charts Do More Harm Than Good For Patent Litigation and Licensing
What is a Claim Chart? - Claim Chart (infringement contention) is one of the most important component in a patent infringement case and...
Aug 6, 2018
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