Dr. Isailovic serves as an expert witness in patent litigation: he assesses and evaluates patents and patent portfolios.

Patent Assessment
Our staff can help you maximize the value of your patent portfolio by evaluating it to assess whether it might infringe on existing or emerging technology standards. We also evaluate portfolios to rate patent claims for licensing potential. We produce claim charts including limited reverse engineering when necessary. Conversely, we can help you minimize the cost of bringing your technology to market by assessing whether identified, existing patents infringe on your technology.
In the case of alleged patent infringement, we examine the prior art to try and determine its validity.

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Electronic laboratory notebooks
A patent provides rights to an inventor to restrict the ability of others to make, use or sell an invention. To obtain a patent, an inventor must submit a novel and unique concept to a government agency. In the scientific domains, laboratory notebooks are typically used as the primary evidence toe prove inventorship of a concept and the details of its first successful use, or what is known as “reduction to practice”. The US awards patents on a “first inventor” basis rather than on a “first to file”, as almost rest of world does.

Lately, the use of electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) technology has risen sharply. ELN technology has not only led to increases in laboratory efficiency and improved leverage of institutional knowledge, but also to enhance protection of intellectual property (IP). In December 2006, the risk of ignoring the proper management of patent-supporting electronic records changed appreciably with amendments to the United States Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP). These changes alter the procedures of discovery, which is the process of requesting, or compelling, information from one party to another in a civil case [see Rule 26(a)(1) A and B].