Posts Tagged ‘TAEUS’
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 MoreGlobal Footprint
TAEUS opened TAEUS Europe, Ltd., its first international subsidiary, in 1996 in London, investigating Microsoft for antitrust on behalf of the European Commission, illustrating how the instructions Microsoft provided to users did not reflect how the Windows® operating system and Internet Explorer® actually worked. The European Commission’s €9M contract with TAEUS Europe, Ltd. yielded a…
Read MoreCOVID-19 Effects on TAEUS
The entire world, including TAEUS, was affected by the onset of COVID-19 in various ways that differ from one company to another. Many companies had to adapt to working remotely. TAEUS has been working remotely as a specialized team since its founding in 1992! This advantage allowed TAEUS to continue working while other companies had…
Read MoreMarket Changes
Many patent owners resort to patent brokerage services because they either don’t utilize their patents, or they lack the financial resources to litigate. TAEUS Corporation has helped patent owners monetize their patents since 1992. The patent sale market has gone dry recently. In 2020, the actual patent sales by market year of sale dropped to…
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 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…
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