The USPTO Public PAIR tool will be retired and succeeded by Patent Center as the new system for accessing documents and statuses on publicly available patents and applications. This change takes effect on July 31, 2022. For TPR clients with patent alerts or monitoring in […]
Percent Identity in Sequence Searching In this issue of the TPR Biotech Brief, we look at ‘percent identity’ in sequence searching by exploring the following: What is meant by ‘percent identity’? Why can every alignment have more than one type of ‘percent identity’? What are […]
News is out this month from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as they announce the launch of a new Patent Public Search Tool, which they describe as a resource providing ‘more convenient, remote, and robust full-text searching of all U.S. patents and published patent […]
How can you be sure that your patent and non-patent literature search results don’t only represent the tip of the iceberg? In this guide we present a snapshot of global patent filings and examine how this data can impact your strategies for prior art searching, […]
This case study takes a look at a large multi-national corporation who were experiencing rapid growth in two key market segments and seeking to speed up their IP related decision-making processes. As we review this case we shine a light on how corporations can use […]
With the introduction of the America Invents (Leahy-Smith) Act a decade ago, the United States moved from ‘first-to-invent’ to a ‘first-to-file’ patent system. While it may be tempting to rush to the patent office to put your date-stamp stake in the ground, an important step […]
In patent searching, compromising quality for cost may mean missing key information critical to successful patent filing, portfolio management and defensive actions. However, the pressure within most corporations to reduce costs has never been greater. Is there a balance and what could you be compromising? […]
While some corporations and law firms may have in-house patent research professionals and resources, there is an ever growing need to exclusively or partly outsource searching to a professional patent search firm; whether it be for volume pre-filing searches, over-flow searching, additional expertise, or extended […]
When it comes to freedom to operate you always want to ensure the greatest level of diligence for making the most informed decisions. Have you considered freedom to operate search updates, periodic alerts, or extensions on searches that have been performed for you in the […]
What steps should you take with regards to your patent and scientific literature searches that will help eliminate your risk and take your search results to a new level? Below are three essential elements to successfully engaging an outside search professional for finding critical prior […]
