More advanced codecs like AAC are beginning to supplant MP3, Fraunhofer director Bernhard Grill told NPR. Grill in fact claimed that AAC has become the "de facto standard for music download and videos on mobile phones," as it's "more efficient" than MP3 and includes "a lot more functionality." Although MP3's development dates back to [...]
In a rare IPR affirming patentability, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (the “Board”) found claims of US Patent No. 6,945,013 to be patentable that were directed to a “method for automatically aseptically bottling aseptically sterilized foodstuffs” in which bottles are “aseptically disinfected at a rate greater than 100 bottles per minute”. However, this [...]
In the view of substantial global protection, enterprise should pursue protection only when and where a value proposition can be rationally articulated. Thus, seven hallmarks of rational global patent strategy: 1. Decisions are informed by innovation roadmaps and market at large: decision makers’ should have a holistic picture of the enterprise’s short and long-term commercial [...]
Wolf Greenfield announced that Michael J T. has joined the firm as a shareholder. A skilled counselor to biotechnology and life sciences companies, Michael brings extensive experience in patent prosecution and portfolio development, patent licensing, and post-grant proceedings. He is skilled in the negotiation of patent licenses and the conduct of IP due diligence [...]
By reading through a part of the 8000 patents registered by the company, the researchers were able to shed some light into the process of how the “Empire” turns the raw data they treat their users as into those valuable big data golden profiles that then can be marketed. Patents like “Systems and Methods for [...]
Efforts by newly elected chair of world intellectual property organization copyright committee and ongoing studies and initiatives commissioned by WIPO to move past irreconcilable differences on limitations and expectations to copyright, had little effect last week in terms of agreeing a work program me. However, the committee agreed to ask the WIPO secretariat to [...]
