Posts by Art Nutter
Unlocking IP Potential: Satellite Forensics, Disaster Relief IP, & Software Litigation
Hello from beautiful Colorado Springs, Colorado! As we near the end of summer, we hope you are enjoying fond memories of relaxing vacations and time spent outdoors with your loved ones. TAEUS has had a busy several months. We’ve compiled a selection of our recent and ongoing projects into this new edition of the TAEUS…
Read MoreTAEUS War Stories: EC vs. Microsoft
Some years ago, TAEUS Europe Ltd. won a €9 million European Commission (EC) competitive tender for assistance with their antitrust investigation of Microsoft. The EC was responding to complaints from Microsoft competitors that believed that Microsoft was blocking them from making products compatible with its Internet Explorer™ internet browser and Microsoft Windows™ operating system. …
Read MoreRevolutionizing Patent Licensing
Since the very first patent was issued in the 14th century, intellectual property and intellectual property protection practices are still very relevant in today’s world, despite significant changes. New inventions and innovations are critical to societal progress, for without them, society would become stagnant and forward progression would cease. TAEUS is committed to adapting to…
Read MorePatentBooks, Inc. Roundtable Press Release
For Immediate Release June 4, 2018 Colorado Springs, Colorado PatentBooks Inc. (patentbooksinc.com) is pleased to announce an invitation-only Early Adopter Roundtable for the Geolocation & Autonomy PatentBook occurring on-line June 14, 2018 @ 0800 Mountain Daylight Time (MDT=GMT-7), 10 AM EDT. The Early Adopter Roundtable invitation is extended to the world’s top companies that own US patents and/or…
Read MoreTAEUS War Stories: The “Art” of Searching for Prior Art
Prior art searching is often times a dull, uninteresting affair that is done on a computer searching electronic records. Electronic database searching has its place but it often times does not yield the information needed to invalidate a patent. Here is a true story about a prior art search TAEUS did to invalidate a Japanese…
Read MoreTime To Get Your Patents Into PatentBooks
It’s high time we fixed patent licensing in the United States of America, setting the example for the rest of the world. Patent rights are the most fundamental property rights in society. One must be able to own and profit from one’s own ideas. Obtaining a patent is both challenging and expensive. When one finally…
Read MoreOut of Focus
I have productive and enlightening conversations with other IP practitioners every day. The tone of many conversations is one of general dissatisfaction with the state of our industry. There is often a feeling of “how did we get here?” or “where is all the business?” I started asking a different question of nearly everyone I…
Read MoreSovereign Immunity: Circumventing the PTAB
A few weeks ago, I was in meeting with a prospective client and he asked me what my opinion was on “sovereign immunity.” This question caught me off guard because, until that point, I had not really heard this term used with respect to intellectual property. After doing some quick research and reading a few…
Read MoreCreative Ways to Extract Value from Software Intellectual Property
If you have been involved in the Intellectual Property industry for even as little as six months, I am sure you have heard of the Alice v. CLS Bank case and the US Supreme Court’s landmark decision regarding it. This decision effectively neutered many companies’ software patents and, along with Inter Parte reviews, killed software…
Read MoreTAEUS War Stories: Fish Finder
Once upon a time… There was a patent litigation that was stuck due to inconclusive information on the accused product. TAEUS unstuck the litigation with hard data, and the plaintiff won their case. Here are the particulars: The patent, owned by Computrol, covered a sideways-looking sonar algorithm used in a fish-finder. This was useful to…
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