Are you curious about which companies have delayed the grant of their European patent applications in light of the introduction of the upcoming unitary patent ? Well, you don’t have to wonder any longer. Here at ipQuants have studied the numbers for Jan and Feb 2023 and have compiled a comprehensive list of these organisations, and we’re
If you’ve been browsing the internet since December, you’ve probably noticed the buzz surrounding ChatGPT (powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3). While it’s a lot of fun to compose poems and engage with ChatGPT on various topics, the potential applications for this technology are immense and limitless. One such application is in the field of legal, R&D,
How to Reduce Patent Prosecution Risks Among the many automotive industry advancements that have improved driver safety, some of the most notable are the inventions that use predictive modeling and analysis to reduce accidents. Audi’s Pre-Sense technology is an example, combining hardware, sensors and software to warn drivers of approaching dangers and potential collisions. When
IP law firms and IP in-house counsel across Europe are raising the bar with data and workflow automation. This is the principal takeaway from six months of developing case studies with a half-dozen ipQuants customers. Accessing our EPO prosecution analytics insights, available via our Qthena platform, provide significant advantages to every IP law firm or team, regardless
In our ongoing series to highlight how some of the leading European patent law firms put into practice a data-driven approach as well as workflow automation, we sat down with Klaus Göken, Partner at Eisenführ Speiser. Klaus has been recognized as one of Germany’s best lawyers according to Handelsblatt, who honoured him as 2022 IP lawyer of the Year.
Are you data-driven yet? Apple lost 580 EP patent applications in the last 3-years. Don’t worry, they also got 1’492 EP applications granted. What is more interesting is that in the last 3-years Apple only started an EPO examination appeal procedure for 34 EP applications… Why? Which one? Those are some of the first questions
Women’s participation in inventive activity The European Patent Office (EPO) today published an in-depth study on women’s activity as inventors and provides an overview of the inventive activity across, among others, different countries, technology sectors and applicants. We are proud to say that ipQuants under the lead from one of our founders and Chief Data
The European patent industry is excited about the potential of the Unitary Patent System finally getting into force during 2023. One of the big decisions for applicants is what to do with potential grants. Delay or not? Here – see document dated Oct 13th, 2022 – is what seems to be the first request to delay
Two years on, how has the “convergent approach” of the 2020 Rules of Procedure of the Boards of Appeal (RPBA 2020) impacted Opposition and Examination Appeals at the European Patent Office? How do the pre-2020 and post-2020 data compare? Are there any clear trends? We have studied the data and provide an in-depth review in our
In our ongoing series to highlight how some of the leading European patent law firms put into practice a data-driven approach as well as workflow automation, we sat down with Dr. Paul Loustalan, Partner at Reddie & Grose LLP. Access the case study to learn why Paul arrives at the following conclusion: “I think ipQuants gives an
