Happy world ip day!
April 26: significant for you personally? Possibly it’s your birthday? Otherwise, I bet you’re a patent lawyer, or somebody that works together with patent lawyers. For April 26 is World Ip Day! Accordingly, yesterday I congratulated all individuals associated with this tricky profession, and wanted them every success there.
Really, not every individuals associated with this profession. Not patent trolls, and never legal white-colored-collar ‘consumer champions’. If only them… imaginable.
But to the positive…
Hearty congratulations to any or all the KLers within our IP protection department (that’s a large number of headstrong specialists with unique expertise, brought through the distinctively headstrong N.K). Hip, hip hooray!
April 26: significant for you personally? Possibly it’s your birthday? Otherwise, I bet you’re a patent lawyer, or somebody that works together with patent lawyers. For April 26 is World Ip Day! Accordingly, yesterday I congratulated all individuals associated with this tricky profession, and wanted them every success there.
Really, not every individuals associated with this profession. Not patent trolls, and never legal white-colored-collar ‘consumer champions’. If only them… imaginable.
But to the positive…
Hearty congratulations to any or all the KLers within our IP protection department (that’s a large number of headstrong specialists with unique expertise, brought through the distinctively headstrong N.K). Hip, hip hooray!
So, about this special day, we made the decision to perform a small-retrospective – to appear go back over how our IP department developed, and also to take a look towards the future to forecast how it’s likely to further develop.
Quick digression…
Searching back from time to time – not forever forward – is an extremely useful factor to complete. We are able to neglect doing this from habit always working, improving, and also having a decidedly future-orientation. So that as we all do, we frequently believe that, though we’re toiling away like troopers, the outcomes are meager. But frequently it just appears this way because we don’t stop and appreciate everyday the progress we’ve made depending on how things used to be. So stop! Think back in awe at the achievements, review mistakes made and grow from them, fill yourself with higher vibes, and banish any ideas of futility of labor. Then return to work!…
So let’s begin having a think back over our IP department’s past achievements. And straight from the bat – only one consider the following graph, for instance, will banish all futile ideas before you say inventive step and non-obviousness:
Within the 13 years since its beginning in 2005, this is what we’ve achieved:
- 709… oops, no – already 710 patents across six countries, with 379 patents pending. As you’ll most likely have the ability to guess, the majority of individuals have been in Russia (275), the united states (273) and also the EU (89).
- Winning five proceedings against, and settling from court within our favor about 2 dozen claims against us introduced by patent trolls.
- But what’s probably the most oh-my-groundbreaking in the individuals figures is when we lost, as a whole, in most our years fighting patent trolls, a whopping… zero proceedings! As pointed out, most of the claims against us were torpedoed from court as individuals getting them recognized these were sooo gonna lose. Each time we effectively defended ourselves in line with the truth – our total insufficient guilt regarding any claim introduced against us – and our fluency to get this across. Losing not just one situation: that’s unique all over the world in the area of battling trolls. Losing not just one situation in the united states, too: still unique, however with other typically trolled defendants coming nowhere near this type of result.
- We help other IT companies protect against patent troll attacks. Following our example, they’ve began to stay up on their own – and it is working! So that as more choose to protect themselves, the entire concept of trolls getting easy pickings – by picking on genuine innovator-contributors – becomes significantly less attractive over the years.
- We never leave our partners (especially technological ones) in the cold. If your patent troll coming at us decides to file for claims against our partners in parallel, we be responsible for the entire defense.
- After many years effectively protecting ourselves from patent trolls, we’ve moved from the defensive stance to some positive one: we file counter-claims, invalidate ‘rotten’ patents, and expose the trolls for which they are really: disadvantage artists.
- We effectively counter various manifestations of unscrupulous competition. We’ve needed to defend inside us lots of such cases. It’s understandable, no unscrupulous competition from your side too (our clients are trust-based how will you be reliable whenever you play unfairly together with your competitors?).
So as you can tell, with past successes like our IP department has, searching go back over it’s very healthy. Particularly when individuals successes were in uncharted waters.
The skeptic might say it’s pointless: modern-day Goliaths will not be overcome by modern-day Davids: it’s much easier and cheaper to merely remove the trolls, avoid court (and stress), and spend time and cash doing more lucrative things. I couldn’t disagree more. Strategically that’s a route to nowhere. Therefore we fight, and fighting – before the last bullet: their own! Go David!
And the other factor that inspires us is when there isn’t any finish of labor. The work’s interesting, helpful, and courageously soldierly: stuff we recognize within our field – cybersecurity.
PS: We’ve just showed up in a verrrrry strangely enough interesting… crossroads using the large patent troll Uniloc. And it is only getting much more strangely enough interesting – so stay tuned in!…
Resourse: https://eugene.kaspersky.com/2018/04/28/happy-world-ip-day/
