When it comes to your business’ intellectual property (IP), it really breaks down to four categories of the IP your business owns: Copyrights Trades Patents Trade Secrets These four categories …
InnovationQ Tips: Using the Semantic Engine to Find What You’re Really Looking For
By: Nasreen Bakht Brady, Client Engagement Director and Devin Salmon, Patent Analyst, IP.com Like any patent searching, semantic searching is often iterative. Enter a query, do a little quick review …
A Shift in Mindset – From Whittling to Eureka!
By: Nasreen Bakht Brady, Client Engagement Director and Devin Salmon, Patent Analyst, IP.com When do you know when you’re done with a patent search? The cheeky response is ‘well how …
Soft Rocks and Bright Ideas: How the Fidget Spinner Came to Be
By: Nasreen Bakht Brady, Client Engagement Director at IP.com When there’s a problem, innovators seek solutions. That’s the blueprint for many great inventions—and that’s exactly what Catherine Hettinger did when …
A Sign of the Times? A Brief Look at the Trend of Patent Cases Before the US Supreme Court
By: Devin Salmon, Patent Analyst, IP.com Since Tyler v. Tuel in 1810 the US Supreme Court has played a large role in interpreting patent law and defining the role patents play …
Highlights from IPBC Global 2017
By Joe Barone, Senior Manager, IP.com What an exciting time to be part of the InnovationQ Plus team! This week IP.com, together with our partner IEEE, attended the IPBC Global …
The evolution of patent search and analysis: Manual labor
By: Nasreen Bakht Brady, Client Engagement Director at IP.com Back before the Internet, you accumulated a lot of steps and frequent flier miles searching for prior art. You had to …
How Popular Patents Come to Life: Scrub Daddy’s Shark Tank and IP Success Story
By: Nasreen Bakht Brady, Client Engagement Director at IP.com Since the 2012 season of Shark Tank, when cast member Lori Greiner offered Scrub Daddy founder Aaron Krause $200,000 for a …
Top 8 Trends from PIUG 2017
By: Devin Salmon, Patent Analyst, IP.com On May 20 – 25, the 2017 Patent Information Users Group (PIUG) Annual Conference was held outside Atlanta, GA. This conference is a place for …
Write a Rock-Solid Patent: Best Practices for Increasing Approvals and Eliminating Threats
By: Katherine (Katie) McGuire, Esq., Registered Patent Attorney; Partner, Woods Oviatt Gilman LLP; Chair, Intellectual Property Practice Group Writing patents is an art, and an evolving one at that—and it …