Virtual Reality Patents: Creating a World of Innovation and Imagination
Often, when a new technology leads to an abundance of patent filings, patent prosecution grows in difficulty as the “novelty” and “non-obviousness” requirements become tougher to meet. The LexisNexis PathWays™ tool, available on the LexisNexis PatentAdvisor® patent prosecution platform, is able to use patent language keywords to provide both the likelihood of being assigned to a specific USPTO art unit, as well as key patent statistics that help make predictions about patent prosecution difficulty. Currently, a “virtual reality” PathWays™ search shows that USPTO allowance rates are still generally favorable for patent applications. However, patent statistics vary greatly across the technology center groups that are most likely to evaluate a VR patent (shown below).
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