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The Road to Ten Million U.S. Patents and China’s Growing Influence

Dave Ballai — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 14:28:09 +0000

The United States Patent and Trademark Office is rapidly approaching a significant milestone in its productive history of granting patents. Having issued the first patents back in 1790, the USPTO has, by virtue of its unique regulatory authority, been awarding patents to applicants at an increasingly furious pace and is rapidly approaching a tremendous milestone—the […]

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Micro Entities: the Birth of New Genre of Patent Applicants

Benjamin Kusiak — Mon, 28 Mar 2016 14:42:02 +0000

One of the lesser talked about aspects of the America Invents Act (AIA) is the creation of a new type of filing entity before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Traditionally, all inventors or companies filing patent applications fell into either the small or large entity designation. To be considered “small,” the individual […]

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Did you know … the PatentAdvisor™ Examiner and Art Unit Reports allow you to easily filter the statistics?

Reed Tech IP Solutions — Fri, 25 Mar 2016 14:52:03 +0000

In an Art Unit or Examiner report, you have the ability to filter the statics with Tabs. These Tabs let you see the most relevant information with a single click.

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Did you know … the LexisNexis PatentAdvisor® Timeline gives you an easy look at your application’s prosecution path and shows you how it compares to your examiner’s average?

Reed Tech IP Solutions — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 00:42:40 +0000

First, pull your application using the QuickPair search. Next, select the Timeline Tab. The Timeline illustrates the prosecution path your application has taken and then compares it to your examiner’s averages. This lets you quickly see if your application is on par with your examiner in relation to time and number of filings.

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Did you know … LexisNexis PatentOptimizer® can automatically check and compare the part labeling in your document and figures?

Reed Tech IP Solutions — Fri, 18 Mar 2016 19:31:56 +0000

Select Check Parts from inside the PatentOptimizer ribbon of your Word document. Next, select the Figures Tab. Then, select Open Figures at the bottom of the Check Parts window. A new dialog box will prompt you to select the file containing your figures. PatentOptimizer will read figures in PowerPoint, Word, Visio and OCR PDF. After […]

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5 Tips in Preparing for an Examiner Interview

Steven Brachmann — Fri, 18 Mar 2016 07:48:30 +0000

Only a few thousand patent examiners are responsible for issuing actions on hundreds of thousands of patent applications that are filed every year with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Although written correspondence between a patent applicant, or a representative, and an examiner may clear up issues such as misunderstandings in drafted claims, no form […]

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Did you know… In TotalPatent™ you can view your results list and individual documents in the same screen?

Reed Tech IP Solutions — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 22:34:34 +0000

Select the split view layout button on the top of your results list. This view keeps a results list open on the left while you get a full view of your documents on the right. This view helps you quickly and easily sift through your results list and identify relevant documents. If you have […]

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UDI Crunch Time: Preparing Your Data for Submission

Mike Brennan — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 21:17:18 +0000

Medical device labelers face a number of challenges as they work to comply with the UDI Rule, including electronic submission of UDI data records to the FDA’s Global Unique Device Identification Database (GUDID). Join Reed Tech UDI expert John Lorenc on March 22 to learn how best to prepare your UDI data for submission to […]

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Further Improve Your Patent Prosecution With The Recently Released Enhancements To LexisNexis PatentAdvisor®

Reed Tech IP Solutions — Fri, 04 Mar 2016 16:57:32 +0000

These new enhancements will allow you to: Quickly visualize key information within a report to build a clear understanding about your examiner/application Learn from your peers by fully leveraging information in PatDoc Search with Boolean Search Recent SCOTUS rulings may have changed your world; see how your competitors have fared with rejection stats for Alice, […]

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UDI Ask the Experts Webinar Video Now Available

Andrew Pfeifer — Fri, 26 Feb 2016 21:31:59 +0000

To hear Gary and John’s answers to these questions, you can visit our website and access the recording of the entire webinar. You can also download the presentation slides.

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