Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner is a boutique law firm dedicated to the practice of intellectual property law located in Minneapolis, Silicon Valley , Austin, TX and UK
Schwegman SLW Institute offered in April- July 2020 8-part live webinars series on Patent Analytics. Slides and recording of these webinars are freely available at Schwegman website and Youtube:
Patent counsel is frequently called upon to identify the most valuable patents in their client’s portfolio, or owned by others in industry. Similarly, patent counsel must routinely make patent renewal decisions and likewise need guidance as to which patents to keep and drop. This webinar discusses best practices for identifying both most valuable and least valuable patents in a portfolio or in a patent landscape.
Patent landscapes have become an indispensable tool for entrepreneurs and established companies in order to gain critical insight to the patent pitfalls and opportunities for a new product initiative. This webinar discusses the basic content of a patent landscape and the best practices for putting one together.
One of the most dreaded tasks for any product development team is navigating a complex patent landscape in order to achieve an infringement-free product design. This webinar will discuss best practices for patent counsel to work with product development teams to perform the key tasks of an FTO project, and also demonstrate how interactive claim maps make navigation of an FTO landscape fast and effective.
Blue ocean maps are a valuable tool for identifying “open spaces” in the patent landscape and enable better targeting of claims on defensible points of distinction. The creation and use of blue ocean maps for everyday prosecution will be reviewed and real life examples will be present.
Data-driven IP management (DDIPM) is an approach to IP strategy and management that values decisions that can be backed up with verifiable data. The success of this approach is reliant upon the quality of the data gathered and the effectiveness of its analysis and interpretation. This webinar will highlight key metrics used in DDIPM and an example IP analytics dashboard.
Details on Episodes 3, 4 and 5 which related to use of analytics in patent prosecution and of limited interests could found on SLW Institute website.