World's Most Comprehensive Database for Unified Patent Court (UPC) cases now part of Unified's Portal

As the Unified Patent Court (UPC) has begun to hear cases, Unified's Portal now tracks and allows users to examine the dockets to receive real-time case information. Portal users can filter by Case Numbers, Patent Numbers, Actions, Respondents, Claimants, Representatives, Judges, and Filing Dates. It includes all public documents available and all docket metadata.

Currently Unified’s Portal contains 232 total cases, with 97 cases of Counterclaims for Revocation, 79 cases of Infringement Actions, 25 cases of Revocations, and the remaining 31 cases involving Appeals, Provisional Measures, or other requests. Portal continues to update the cases and case information on a daily basis, proving to be the most comprehensive database of patent litigation around the world.

Case numbers are linked to the UPC, a court composed of judges from all participating Member States of the European Union. Patent numbers are linked to Portal’s patent information page where users can find detailed information about the individual patent.

Click HERE to see how Unified’s Portal is tracking cases from the UPC.

INPADOC Extended Families can now be searched on Unified's Portal

Unified Patents’ Portal now includes INPADOC Extended families. You can now search by and expand by Extended Family ID.

Or have that information displayed or exported in Portal:

These features are available in the Patent Search portal, as well as OPAL’s IEEE, 3GPP, and Video Codec landscapes, to enable accurate top-down counting and analysis. 

DOCDB simple families typically include a collection of patent applications covering the same technical content.

The charts below describe how a set of patents can have 4 separate simple families. The priorities taken into account are:

1. First filings - A first filing is a foreign application claimed under the Paris Convention.

2. Provisional first filings - A provisional first filing is a U.S. provisional application.

3. Equivalents to first filings - An equivalent to a first filing is a U.S. continuation-in-part.

The concept of a “simple” family excludes:

• Applications that are a continuation of an existing parent application

• Applications that are a division of an existing parent application

Continuations and divisions are considered to cover the same technical content as the parent application. Continuations and divisions will always be in a patent family with the parent application, regardless of the priorities that they claim.

Figure 1 - DOCDB SIMPLE FAMILY

Figure 2 - INPADOC EXTENDED FAMILY

(Landscape Study of Potentially Essential Patents Disclosed to ETSI)

An extended patent family is a collection of patent documents covering a technology. The technical content covered by the applications is similar, but not necessarily the same. Members of an extended patent family will have at least one priority in common with at least one other member - either directly or indirectly. Hence, the four families above, become one extended family.

Therefore, the priorities taken into account are:

• First filings, provisional first filings, and equivalents to first filings (for definitions of these terms, see above)

• Priorities that refer to an earlier related application, whether a domestic or a PCT filing

Click HERE to see Unified’s INPADOC extended families search capabilities.

Heeeerrrreees Patty! World's First Patent Chatbot

Unified is pleased to announce the latest addition to its patent analytics tools, ‘Ask Patty’ - Unified’s first AI ChatBot. Patty is our new interactive chatbot assistant designed to enhance the user experience on our Portal. It will automatically pop up on every patent information page.

With Patty, users can interact directly and ask questions. Conversation history is stored anonymously so that the system can analyze data for future use and assist in building products that cater to our users' specific needs.

Powered by OpenAI, users can have natural language conversations, regenerate individual responses, or reset the entire discussion.

Patty has general world knowledge, including patent law. The system provides Patty with patent metadata displayed on the current page including important dates, inventor names, and many other bibliographic details.

Patty features two modes. In “Document-Only Mode”, Patty answers questions strictly based on the current patent document. When the toggle is flipped, answers utilize both document content and the model's external knowledge for more comprehensive insights.

Click HERE to see Unified’s Ask Patty in action!

Patent transaction data now available through Q1 of 2023

Unified’s Portal now includes patent transaction data through Q1 of 2023. Users can search for patents that are For Sale or Likely Sold to understand secondary market behavior and make predictions on future assertions activity. This data is available through Richardson Oliver Insights, an insights provider offering a proprietary deal database and deep connections with the patent broker and seller community. Richardson Oliver Insights have provided customers with actionable information in the form of reports, analysis, and insights on live information on specific assets.

Visit Unified’s Portal for further details.

OPAL, world's most comprehensive SEP landscape tool introduces VENN to automatically show licensor overlap

Unified Portal’s OPAL (Objective PAtent Landscape) report was designed to address asymmetries in the licensing of standard essential patents and to create a more fair and transparent patent licensing process around core patents supporting next waves of consumer technology growth. Portal’s OPAL recently launched its Advanced Analytics for IEEE, Video Codecs, and 3GPP. Users can understand if a given area contains certain contributors or patent pools. In addition, it allows for an advance breakdown between the positive and negative training labels.

For example, the graph below looks at Sisvel WiFi 6 Members that account for 155 of the positive labels (Blue Circle) and 251 of the Negative Labels (Orange Circle). This is the first tool to demonstrate the overlap between licensors, pools and standards.

In another example below, the same can be said of IEEE contributors with 884 positive labels and 2,139 negative labels.

For 3GPP, users can understand the relationship between the various generations of cellular technology.

For Video Codec, Portal users can select between the numerous pools and understand the various breakdowns in relationship to the entire video codec universe.

Unified's OPAL report is a one-of-a-kind patent landscaping tool that leverages advanced machine-learning techniques to create a flexible solution for negotiating and licensing Standard Essential Patents (SEPs). A free trial version is available through Unified's Portal. For more information, view our Methodology or email us at info@unifiedpatents.com.