Posts Tagged ‘Reverse Engineering’
Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going
TAEUS Corporation is the world’s first engineering company dedicated to patent licensing, formed originally in July 1992. TAEUS grew organically, helping AT&T identify the best patents obtained in its 1992 NCR purchase. TAEUS served not only AT&T, but all its daughter companies, including Lucent, Avaya, and LSI, for the next two decades. In 1994, 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 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 MoreSet-Top Box Investigations
TAEUS has performed dozens of analyses relating to set-top box technology over its 25-year history. As the technology has advance the investigation techniques have changed, and the challenges have multiplied. TAEUS employs hundreds of subject matter experts (SMEs) to perform the patent analysis and reverse engineering that our clients require. We rely on our SMEs to…
Read MoreHungry For Change, but Tried and True
In an industry that is hungry for change over the gradual erosion of the strength of the patent system over the last several years, we at TAEUS have weathered it all. For 25 years the TAEUS team has grown from the first-ever reverse engineering firm focused on IP, to a global force in IP licensing,…
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