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Anuj Bhardwaj - Spotlight Interview IP and R&D Solutions

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IP and R&D Spotlight: Dr. Priyal Bisht

Learn about the fast-changing requirements in chemical safety, toxicology and regulatory space and how we can help companies to quickly adapt.

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Patent Landscaping: 5 Insights into Competitive Intelligence

Competitive intelligence is a critical factor in the decision-making process for businesses. When assessing competitive intelligence insights, competitors’ sales, strategies, and market share are what come to mind. However, one of the least talked about, but often used insights by industry-leading companies across the world is intellectual property landscape data.

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Turning Patent Landscape Data into Business Strategy

Leveraging the power of enhanced AI and a team of global IP experts, we’ve developed Insightloupe to house and manage all your company’s past, present, and future patent projects. With the ability to efficiently analyze the data, Insightloupe’s patent analytics enhance your business intelligence across the following areas.

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IP and R&D Spotlight: Jatin Khera

Read our Q&A with IP and R&D expert Jatin Khera, where he discusses his latest publication and more.

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Making the Leap from Insights to Wisdom: A Collaborative Approach

Seasoned IP professional discusses taking data to wisdom – how & why?

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IP and R&D Spotlight: Vipul Mendiratta

Q&A with IP and R&D expert Vipul Mendiratta.

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Patent Valuation Best Practices:
Valuing Your Intangible Assets Is Easier Than You Think

Companies set aside a substantial R&D/innovation budget to protect ideas in the form of patents, monetize through licensing or sales and build their brand value as well.

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A Brand-New Approach to Patent Landscapes in 2021

With the new Project Home page and Explorer feature, Insightloupe facilitates navigation, and decision-makers now have the power to see and easily explore the full view of the patent landscape road.

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More Powerful Patent Landscapes on the Horizon

The top five requests for patent landscapes

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How to Build a Smart Patent Portfolio

Just owning a large patent portfolio doesn’t hold value, unless backed by the strategies of a Smart Patent Portfolio.

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Mapping the Patent Landscape process for Product and Business Managers

Asking the time in advance to assess the patent landscape for a particular technology or invention can be critical for a product or business manager.

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Remote Working, Elderly Population and Carbon Reduction: How to approach Emerging Megatopic Patent and Literature Searches

Let us paint a picture for you of a day in the life a patent specialist.

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Best Practices for Identifying Distressed IP Assets for Acquisition

Is your company looking to drive growth through M&A as well as organically grow its own patent portfolio?

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Patent landscaping: To use or not to use automated patent landscape tools?

Patent and technology landscaping are critical for driving successful business strategy today. Automated patent landscape tools can be an efficient way

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Blockchain – what’s the buzz and how is it revolutionizing the Banking and Finance, Healthcare, and Supply Chain Management sectors?

To better understand how this technology is being used, and evaluate its growth trends for the future, Evalueserve conducted an in-depth report compiling 15 years of data, patent documents published around the world, scientific articles, existing products and the latest news in the Blockchain domain. The report reveals rapid growth for Blockchain technologies across all these sectors.

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Sequence Searches: How to interpret claim language?

The question we must address now is: “How do we interpret claim language?”

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High-volume patent prosecution Part 2: Streamlining the Office Action response process

The stakes are high when business success depends on the patent portfolio’s strength.

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High-volume patent prosecution Part 1: Can the patent prosecution process be streamlined?

In part one of this two-part series, we examine the drivers for high volume prosecution and provide some best practices for high-volume patent prosecution.

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Enhancing Control of Patent Search Quality Using Multiple Patent Databases

In this blog post, Mudit Mittal shares data from these experiments and explains how the findings lead to best practices for building better queries, including systematic ways to control the recall and precision of the search queries.

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How to simplify IP for R&D

In this blog post, Dolly Manish Mathews describes the perpetual challenge of synchronizing Intellectual property (IP) and R&D to effectively advance the company’s product development goals.

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Best Practices for Sequence Searches: Designing a high quality and reliable search process

These blog posts explained the key parameters that searchers need to consider to ensure an effective FTO search.

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A New Year’s Resolution for Patent Attorneys, IP counsels and R&D Executives: Time to Evaluate your patent search quality

Evalueserve’s New White Paper Reveals Process To Assess And Measure Patent Search Quality.

Validity Search - Conducting opposition search

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Validity Searches Part 3: Conducting an opposition search that maintains budget, recall and precision

In this blog, we will learn about the specific points that a customer or a searcher should keep in mind before commencing an opposition/validity search.

Validity Search - Logically scoping generates best search results

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Validity Searches Part 2: Exhausted by exhaustive data searches? How logically scoping the search generates the best results

In this blog, Shekhar Khanduja will outline a few best practices of identifying prior art documents that can help an attorney make strong arguments while opposing a patent at a patent office.

Validity Searches - Best patent opposition strategies

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Validity Searches Part 1: Statistics reveal the best patent opposition strategies

In part one of this three-part series about validity searches, Shekhar Khanduja and Christy George outline the different approaches that corporations or their attorneys typically use to invalidate a patent or oppose a patent.

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How to prepare to negotiate with SEP holders for patent licenses

In this follow-up post, Sushil Kumar explains the three critical steps a company should take when approached by SEP owners for a patent license.

Evalueserve - Myths about Standard Essential Patents

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Four common myths about Standard Essential Patents

A Standard Essential Patent (SEP) is a patent that claims an invention which must be used when a given standard is implemented in the products.

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Digital and knowledge management for patent preparation and prosecution: How it might impact patent portfolio quality in the technology sector

Could patent preparation and prosecution (P&P) go digital?

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Get your patent searches done while your team explores the world this summer

Why not let us cover your patent search workload while your team is travelling this summer? Learn more

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Unlocking Complexity: Assessing Innovation Intelligence

In today’s complex world, few would argue that you need reliable, real-time insights upon which to base million-dollar decisions. Ankur Saxena asks: How good is your innovation intelligence really?

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How to understand patent documents: Tips for non-experts

Imagine you are a scientist or engineer, and the head of R&D at your company has asked you to review some patent documentation.

ip licensing part 3 - Risk-y mission: strategies to win the patent-licensing war

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Risk-y mission: strategies to win the patent-licensing war (or at least strike a good truce!)

Shekhar Khanduja shares strategies on how companies can get the most from their patent portfolio – and improve its future quality.

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What makes a good patent search? Learning from zero-fault-tolerance processes in aviation and medicine

In this blog post, Urs Dommann describes a range of potential pitfalls for patent searches – and how we can learn from zero-tolerance industries to improve FTO patent search process.

Patent licensing in the US and beyond: Part 2 Defining a new path for future technology patent licensing

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Patent licensing in the United States and beyond – Part 2:
Defining a new path for future technology patent licensing

In the second part of the current series, Shekhar Khanduja looks to the future of technology patent licensing in the US and beyond.

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Patent Licensing in the United States:
Part 1 American technology industry in the eye of the patent licensing storm

In a new short series of posts, Shekhar Khanduja looks at the roots of aggressive patent licensing in the US technology industry, in Part 1 today.

FTO Search: A framework for the great ‘risk versus research’ balancing act

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FTO Search
Part 2: A framework for the great ‘risk versus research’ balancing act

Priyanka Paul discusses the issues – and a framework – for striking the right balance.

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FTO search
Part 1: Conducting a freedom to operate search – what experienced searchers do differently?

Without proper due diligence, it’s quite easy to infringe another’s intellectual property.

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Does innovation scouting deliver on its promise?

Urs Dommann shares his thoughts on how decision makers in R&D will benefit.

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Non-patent literature – the IP-research goldmine

News articles, scientific literature, and the like should be on every IPR&D searcher’s hit list. Priyal Bisht advises: ignore non-patent sources at your peril – that might be exactly where you will find the nuggets of gold.

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Thanks, wishes and resolutions from the Evalueserve IPR&D team

The holiday season is for many of us a time of reflection and gazing into the promise of the future.

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The full palette of search queries – how to control recall with a smart query strategy

Using the Evalueserve Problem-Solution-Application Framework, Ashutosh Pande tells us how to combine the logical variables of search query to control recall. Grab your paint brushes!

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R&D and patent alerts
Part 3: Harnessing the power of patent alerts

In the third part of his series on IPR&D Alerts, Ronen Speyer, shows you how to unlock the economic value of patent watches by enriching data through tagging.

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R&D and patent alerts
Part 2: The genetic makeup of the perfect patent alert

In the second part of his series on IPR&D Alerts, Ronen Speyer demonstrates that when it comes to patent watches, it’s all in the genes: learn how to use the Alert Quality Index to balance recall, precision, and insights.

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Is Patent Monitoring Worth the Money?

When done properly, patent alerts are a major weapon in the corporate arsenal. However, in this new blog series, Ronen Speyer argues many companies are wasting money on patent watches, and tells us how to put this right.

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What AI Means for the Future of Patent Search

Cutting through the Artificial Intelligence hype, Jeroen Kleinhoven and Fedde van der Lijn begin a series of posts on when using AI in patent analysis and innovation intelligence makes perfect business sense – and when it absolutely doesn’t. Read more to understand if AI is right for your use case – or perhaps not yet!

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The value of custom tagging in creating insights

Dommann shares how the village library of his youth inspired his passion for information science, patent search and innovation analytics. Read about the importance of custom tagging.

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Important Questions to ask During the Patent Search Process

Search quality starts with smart query formulation – Ashutosh Pande shares how Evalueserve improves search quality by applying Problem-Solution-Application Framework.

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The importance of trust when outsourcing IP services

High-volume tasks like IP docketing can become overwhelming, meaning work on patent analytics and designing new services can suffer. BASF’s IP group trusts Evalueserve to support it with this sensitive work. Justin Delfino tells us why.

Patent Search Quality - Why we need Planners and Explorers on our team

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Partners in IP and R&D search and intelligence: Why we need ‘Planners’ and ‘Explorers’ on our team

Shekhar Khanduja, raises search quality by pairing ‘Explorers’ and ’Planners’ on his team to different IP and R&D use cases with some fascinating results! This new post is the first of many showing how to control the factors in our ‘Search Quality Index’.

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The Evalueserve Search Quality Index (SQI) – a tool to control, document and improve Patent Search Quality

Ashutosh Pande and Urs Dommann discuss economics of patent searching; and introduce an initial formula describing search quality (“search quality index”). Let’s get serious with understanding search quality.

What is a good patent search? Part 3: The searcher’s dilemma

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What is a good IP and R&D search?
Part 3: The searcher’s dilemma

Much of the value offered by IP search services is helping customers to identify the most relevant data sources, without getting distracted by the irrelevant. But this can come at a cost. Urs Dommann and Ashutosh Pande explain the searcher’s dilemma.

How to find and clone the perfect patent searcher?

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What is a good IP and R&D search?
Part 2: How to find and clone the ‘perfect searcher’

If you could clone the ‘perfect searcher’, what kind of personality, experience and profile would you specify to optimize patent search quality? Urs Dommann reflects on the human factors of knowledge management, and how machines fill the inevitable gaps.

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Patent Search Strategy: Creating the Perfect Search

Is it possible to deliver a perfect IP and R&D search, i.e., a novelty or validity search that finds 100% of the relevant documents? Urs Dommann tells the story of seeing it achieved and explains why the method can’t be repeated.

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Introducing the Information Adventurers blog

The Head of Evalueserve’s IPR&D business Urs Dommann launches our Information Adventurers blog with a fundamental and provocative question. What constitutes a good IP and R&D search or intelligence?

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