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NOKIA – MICROSOFT DEAL of $7.17 Billions
IP Movers & Shakers
Sagacious Research
The Patent Search Experts
“IP Movers & Shakers” – 2013, is compilation of some
of the most interesting news that shall have a long term
impact on the Intellectual Property fraternity & some
fascinating inventions that got patented during the year.
The news item has been compiled after much research
amongst the people & professionals from IP domain by
Sagacious Research. Sagacious Research is an ISO
Certified India based Global Patent Research &
Analytics firm.
1 2 3 4
”CPC” Classification Launched by USPTO-EPO
The Patent Box System Introduced In UK
$290M To Be
Paid To Apple
by Samsung
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U S T u r n s “ F i r s t - t o - F i l e ”
N a t i o n
American Patent System took a U-Turn with
the implementation of the Leahy-Smith
America Invents Act (AIA) and made USA a
“first-to-file” nation. This type of filing system
isn't novel; it is actually more in line with the
rest of the world's patent laws. By simply
accelerating the timeline for filing patent
applications, it gave an advantage to quick
decision and strategy makers in US and
didn’t change much for larger companies
that had their R&D departments, financial
resources and the means in place to get the
process going. However, it mounted up the
pressure on the startups and also resulted
in problems of forfeiting of foreign patent
rights as it required public disclosure prior to
filing a patent application.
Nevertheless, numbers of provisional
applications at USPTO increased which
implies that inventors now were using a very
cost-effective way to obtain an early priority
date for a patent application. It didn’t change
much for larger companies that had their
R&D departments, financial resources and
the means in place to get the patenting
process going.
U K L a u n c h e s P a t e n t B o x
In 2013, UK businesses realized that
patents are not just a great tool for
protecting innovation from imitation but they
are also the most effective tool to earn
supra-normal profits following the launch of
“UK PATENT BOX SCHEME”. It reduced
the tax liabilities of the qualifying companies
on income generated through patents and
specifically rewarded those companies who
engaged in R&D (or innovation) from
conception to commercialization of patents
(scheme excluded products with copyright
or trademark protection). Thus, companies
could enjoy a reduced rate of corporation
tax of 10% for profits from the exploitation of
patented inventions and certain other
innovations.
M i c r o s o f t N o k i a D e a l wo r t h $ 7 . 1 7
B i l l i o n s
In 2013, the world witnessed the emergence and might of an increasing
number of new companies that were keen on buying patents. Thus,
Nokia & Microsoft entered a multi-billion dollar deal and Microsoft in
return for a 10-year ‘Non-exclusive Licensing Rights’ to Nokia’s patents
& its mobile phone unit paid a whopping $7.17 billion.
~ $ 5 B i l l i o n t o N O K I A
M I C R O S O F T b u y s - o u t
N O K I A m o b i l e h a n d s e t
b u s i n e s s f o r ~ $ 5 B i l l i o n .
~ 1 . 6 5 $ B i l l i o n L i c e n s i n g
R i g h t s b y N O K I A t o
M I C R O S O F T
M I C R O S O F T p a y s ~ 1 . 6 5
B i l l i o n E u r o s f o r 1 0 y e a r s
o f l i c e n s i n g r i g h t s o f
N O K I A p a t e n t s .
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N e w I n n o va t i o n A c t
L a u n c h e d i n U S
United States initiated the first ever reform
in its patent system to fight the might of
patent trolls and face the emergence of
aggressive IPR exploitation in the country in
the form of US Innovation Act.
On Thursday, December 5, 2013, the United
States House of Representatives passed
the Innovation Act by a vote of 325-91.
Surprisingly, the Innovation Act (HR 3309)
had only been introduced on October 23,
2013, and was marked-up on November 20,
2013.
The Innovation Act makes numerous
amendments to Title 35, the section of U.S.
Code embodying U.S. patent law. These
changes include introducing a discovery
delay and other discovery changes, fee
shifting, customer suit staying and party-of-
interest transparency, heightening pleading
requirements and expanding post-grant
review. If nothing else, NPEs and their
targets should know the following about
these changes and the Innovation Act.
I n d i a n P a t e n t O f f i c e t o F u n c t i o n a s I S A
& I P E A
Since Oct 15, 2013 Indian Patent Office began functioning as the
International Search Authority (ISA) and International Preliminary
Examining Authority (IPEA) under Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT).
This significantly reduced the Indian patent filing cost to ~50%. Besides
that Govt. of India revised the Indian Patent Rules to align its practices
with the practices of World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
N e w G l o b a l C l a s s i f i c a t i o n S ys t e m “ C P C ”
L a u n c h e d
Cooperative Patent Classification system officially launched by USPTO
& EPO in 2013 marked the harmonization, increased uniformity and
consistency in the patent system and processes at the international
level. This global classification system for patent documents was
available for use of USPTO, 45 additional patent offices and more than
20,000 patent examiners. It already includes 250,000 classification
symbols and is on its way to becoming an “international standard” in the
patent world.
“US Innovation Act shall
fight the might of patent
trolls & face the emergence
of aggressive IPR
exploitation”
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T h e B i g g e s t D r u g P a t e n t L o s s e s F o r 2 0 1 3
GOOGLE GLASS
A wearable device that syncs with email, text messages, Facebook,
Twitter, takes photos, records movies, and can search the web besides
providing location information, maps and directions that it displays in a
small prism above a user’s right eye.
SAMSUNG GALAXY GEAR
A smart-watch that connects to user's smartphone or tablet to provide
alerts, take photos, make calls, and access certain apps.
SONY SMART WIG
These have built-in sensors and a wearable computing device and HMDs with information displays for both eyes unlike for one as is the case with Google Glass.
R i s e o f W e a r a b l e T e c h
Source: gabi-journal.net
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Rockstar vs Google
"Rockstar”, a legal entity created by Microsoft, Apple, RIM, Ericsson, and Sony, bought the vast Nortel patent
portfolio of more than 6,000 patents covering 4G wireless innovations and a range of technologies back in 2011
for $4.5 billion. Later in 2013, “ROCKSTAR” used those patents to sue Google and seven companies that make
Android smartphones:
Companies Sued:
Asustek
HTC
Huawei
LG Electronics
Pantech
Samsung
ZTE
Google's failure to get patents in the Nortel auction was seen as one of the driving
factors in its $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola in 2011. Later, Google also began to
amass patents and now stands as 3rd largest winner of software patents after IBM
and Microsoft.
- “ROCKSTAR used its 6,000 patents covering 4G wireless
innovations and a range of technologies to sue Google & 7
other companies that make Android smartphones.”
After 15 months of appeals and an eight-day
retrial, a dispute between Apple Inc.
and Samsung Electronics Ltd. over smartphone
patents has come nearly full circle. Federal jury
in San Jose, Calif., ordered Samsung to pay
Apple $290 million in damages for infringing on
five Apple patents with 13 Samsung devices.
Adding the $640 million from the original award
that wasn't in dispute in the retrial, Samsung
owes Apple $930 million. The $930 million total
amounts to about 12% of Apple's most recent
quarterly profits and about 14% of Samsung's
latest income.
S A M S U N G t o P a y A P P L E $ 2 9 0 M
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