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Unified Patents launches Unified IP Services with experienced Search team

Unified recently welcomed Tom Kepner and John Wootress to launch patent search services and lead a highly experienced search team. For nearly a decade, this team has consistently delivered exceptional patentability, invalidity, freedom-to-operate (FTO), and landscape searches for numerous clients within the High-Tech and Life Science fields. The team has received many accolades worldwide and has won two PATROLL contests with prior art submitted on a set of Theranos patents.

 

Unified can now offer its members even more valuable services and marks an important new phase in its expansion. The IP Services team excels at uncovering difficult-to-find prior art and presenting it effectively to help companies understand: the white space and potentially problematic patents within their targeted technology areas; or the likelihood of success before the USPTO when filing for patent protection or to invalidate patents.

For more information, visit www.unifiedips.com or email us at info@unifiedips.com.

World's Largest Wi-Fi 6 Training Set Used in First Ever AI-derived Landscape

Unified'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.

According to OPEN, Unified Patents’ IEEE standards submissions database, over 7,182 technical contributions have been submitted. These top 10 contributors account for 27% of all technical contributions.

The Wi-Fi 6 “OPAL” tool objectively scores the statistical essentiality of patent publications to Wi-Fi 6 functionality. It was created using a machine learning algorithm trained on a large set of expert reviewed Wi-Fi 6 patents. A short summary of OPAL’s methodology follows:

  • Universe of Patents Subject to Analysis - 3.6M+ applications and granted patents potentially relevant to Wi-Fi 6

  • Patents Evaluated Manually by Experts - 3,000+ unique families evaluated manually by technical experts at Scintillation Research

  • AI Training - Patents were vectorized using FastText, and a binary classification algorithm was trained to predict essentiality to the universe of patents

  • ML Performance - Training complied with accepted machine learning practices and the results achieved a high F-1 score of 0.99

Read more about Wi-Fi 6 OPAL’s report and methodology HERE. If you have any questions, please contact info@unifiedpatents.com.