• Unified’s Portal Introduces Full-Text Patent Search

    Unified’s Portal has recently expanded its capabilities to include full-text search of English patents. The full-text search takes advantage of Apache Lucene and allows for a number of Boolean oper...

  • How to Use the Portfolio Value IndeX (PVIX)

    In this video, we walk you through a basic use case of our Portfolio Value IndeX (PVIX). Unified's PVIX applies published empirical studies in order to rank the value of patent families and portfol...

  • Portfolio Value Index (PVIX) Methodology

    Summary The Portfolio Value IndeX (PVIX) score is an internally developed tool designed to measure patent portfolio value based on published academic studies. The score is based on three components...

  • Video Tutorial: Understanding Law Firm Rankings (ISIX)

    Unified is an international membership organization that seeks to improve patent quality and deter unsubstantiated or invalid patent assertions in defined technology sectors (Zones) through its ac...

  • Ruby: The Most Comprehensive Methodology for Patent Litigation Prediction

    Patent litigation prediction is a complex and critically important task in the field of intellectual property management. The ability to accurately forecast the likelihood of a patent being involve...

  • Foreign Oppositions

    Unified Patents’ Portal now include foreign opposition data with access to the dockets. At the current moment the data covers the United Kingdom, Germany, and European Patent Office. Unified will c...

  • PQAI is an open-source prior-art search system that uses AI trained on patent data

    FAQ section on PQAI: How does the ‘Find Prior Art’ feature work? This feature uses the open-source platform PQAI to retrieve prior-art for a given patent. PQAI uses an AI trained on paten...

  • Law Firm Prosecution Index (LPIX): The World’s First Objective Tool for Patent Prosecution Success

    Patent Law is always bedeviled with quality. Identifying good patents is hard enough, let alone figuring out who is good at making them. Unified decided to take on both by first objectively determi...

  • What are SVIX and RNIX?

    Summary With patent annuities sky rocketing into the hundreds of billions dollars over the next couple of years, Unified Patents has developed new tools that help companies make informed annuities ...

  • Patent Annuities Payment Providers

    Unified's Portal will include the option of being directly link to a provider with pricing information avaialble. The user will be able to see the various scores for each patent and decide if that ...

  • How to use boolean search terms?

    Boolean searching is a powerful tool that enables users to combine keywords with operators (or modifiers) such as AND, NOT and OR to further produce more relevant results. For example, a Boolean se...

  • Quick Search: How to conduct a basic search in the Portal

    From the Portal home page, you can conduct a basic “Quick search” of Unified’s PTAB and Patent databases. To conduct a PTAB search, ensure that the “PTAB Quick Search” is selected in the search ba...

  • Advanced Search: How to use filters to narrow your search

    The PTAB search provides a variety of filters to focus your search in the Portal. To use the PTAB filter search, simply click “Case List” directly below “PTAB” on the left-hand sidebar menu. To vie...

  • What is the difference between APIX, CITX and BRIX?

    APIX, CITX and BRIX are three internally developed tools Unified created to measure patent validity, value, and broadness using a combination of PTAB data from Unified's PTAB Portal and advanced ma...

  • How can I analyze patents or cases using the Portal?

    In addition to providing information about individual cases, Unified’s PTAB Portal provides a variety of analytics tools that allow you to easily view and summarize large groups of data. After you ...

  • What is APIX and how does it measure patent validity?

    Advanced Patent IndeX (APIX) is an internally developed tool to measure patent validity.  APIX uses a machine learning algorithm to rate the chances the PTAB may institute on a patent based on its ...

  • What is ISIX?

    Institutional Success IndeX (ISIX) is a internally developed measurement of PTAB success by a law firm.   The index permits anyone to easily measure how successful a law firm has historically been ...