June 10-12, 2018, San Francisco, CA: Representatives from IP.com attended Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) magazine’s Intellectual Property Business Congress (IPBC) conference to exhibit our InnovationQ Plus™ software. We partnered with …
Bringing Back Reality: An IP Perspective
In our rush to automate everything to make our lives easier and more efficient, are we actually leaving life behind? Are we losing our appreciation for an original experience in …
Google Makes AI Sound Natural
Do you know anyone who enjoys speaking with automated or interactive voice response systems? They offer many benefits, for sure. But the systems are often impersonal, as well, delivering a …
How Popular Inventions Came to Life: The Air Conditioner
Snow Wonder! Who would’ve thought that Buffalo, NY – a city famous for its bitterly cold and snowy winters – is the home of the modern air conditioner? But a …
The Best Approach to Launching a Development Monitoring Strategy
Not the Time to Stretch Resources In an economic climate where the battle cry is to, “Do more with less!” it might be tempting, even seem logical, to ask your …
Why Visibility in a Prior Art Database Matters
Your intellectual property: Give it away, give it away, give it away now If you’re a fan of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, you’re familiar with the infectious lyrics …
Need IP Search Results Yesterday? No Problem!
With crazy timelines and floods of work, when it rains it pours. During these breakneck busy stretches, who has time to conduct an intellectual property (IP) search? Professional patent searchers, …
7 Components to a Well-Developed Defensive Publication
The human ability to constantly churn creativity, attack problems with inventive solutions, and even find solutions before we exactly identify the problem, is astounding. Brilliant concepts abound, but they must …
Top Five Reasons to Do a Patentability Search
Do you really need to do a patentability search? YES! Here’s why… Pursuing a patent for an idea is an expensive endeavor, costing tens of thousands of dollars – and …
Supreme Court Issued a Decision in Oil States v. Greene – What It Means
By: Devin Salmon, Patent Analyst, IP.com On April 24th 2018, the US Supreme Court issued its decision, 7-2, for Oil States Energy Services v. Greene’s Energy Group. The case has been closely …