We are again excited to welcome thought leader Dr. Stephen Tedeschi as a guest blogger. Dr. Tedeschi, is a Partner at PatentVantage, a leading patent research and strategy firm. He is also an Adjunct Faculty member at the National Institute of Health’s Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences (FAES). For more on Dr. Tedeschi,…
We are excited to welcome thought leader Dr. Stephen Tedeschi as a guest blogger. Dr. Tedeschi, is a Partner at PatentVantage, a leading patent research and strategy firm. He is also an Adjunct Faculty member at the National Institute of Health’s Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences (FAES). For more on Dr. Tedeschi, please…
I’m going to let you in on a little secret: there’s a reason why we are the market leader in patent sequence search. It has surprisingly little to do with our user-friendly search interface, our stellar customer support, or our good looks. While (at least some of) these things certainly help, it is the content…
After 15 years in this field and writing about this many times, I’m still shocked when I see professional IP people that use BLAST for their sequence searches. BLAST is a crude and unreliable way to align sequences, and under normal circumstances it shouldn’t be used for anything patent related. There, I said it. Sequences…
Those of you who have read my previous blog post 10 Reasons Why Research Scientists Should Patent Search know that I use patents to find information about my research topics. One of the most valuable resources I had when I first started researching patents was a lengthy (and rather technical) introduction to the way they…
We are very happy to extend a warm welcome to Camile Semighini Grubor, PhD, our guest blogger who will be contributing her thoughts through a series of blogs based on her experience as a Patent Scientist. Patentable subject matter is defined in the 35 U.S.C. § 101 as: “any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition…
As more and more researchers and IP specialists sign up to use LifeQuest (full-text life science patent search tool), we have been receiving an increasing amount of positive feedback. This made us all feel so good that to say thanks, our team was inspired to create the LifeQuest Search Bar, a free tool that lets…
Where does your team find inspiration for new ideas, projects, and opportunities? Journals, publications, conferences, and other research are common answers, but if that’s where your sources end, you’re missing one incredibly productive source – patents.
Over the last decade we have succeeded in making GenomeQuest the industry standard for biological sequence searching in IP. We did this through the combination of specialized IP search algorithms and what has become the world’s largest IP sequence database (let alone the largest sequence database on earth) through a combination of automation and manual…
Like any molecular biologist that has worked in pharma research, I have searched through and read a lot of scientific literature. I like to think that I’ve gotten pretty good at it. I’m always surprised though, when I run into colleagues who don’t spend much time searching patents on a regular basis. I understand that…