[2][3] In March 2015, company founder and CEO Pedram Sameni claimed that client feedback formed the basis of a “track record … of 75 percent of cases” regarding successful relevant-prior-art searches.
[2] Sameni eventually identified crowdsourcing as a viable alternative to traditional prior art search, as “the most relevant prior art references are [most-often] hidden in non-patent-literature or foreign language documents;”[2] that is, given that the compulsory research of each prior-art application is performed by an individual examiner in the U.S., the employment of a research community means that multi-lingual searches can be conducted by tens of thousands of individuals with access to global publications, thereby resulting in a significant efficiency and quality improvement.
Described by the blog of international patent-search business Landon IP (now part of CPA Global[6]) as a “free patent search system with simple visual analysis tools,”[7] the Patexia press release explained that the platform “covers [the] U.S. patent database from 1976 to late 2010, which includes over 4.1M patents.”[8] In early 2011, the official Patexia blog was also commenced.
[10] Regarding litigation matters, Sameni stated in 2014: “Crowdsourcing is an extremely efficient way to search for evidence of use and locate infringing products across different markets.”[2] In March 2015, the “Patexia.Defend” program was launched with respect to the patent-litigation area.
Again, crowdsourcing underpins the program that was developed to help reduce the monetary costs for technology-sector clients facing a high number of patent-litigation cases.
[4] NASA published its press release regarding the awarding of 10 new NOIS contracts—the total combined value of which is $20 million over five years—in mid-2015, with Patexia listed among the recipients alongside other companies including InnoCentive, Inc. and HeroX PBC.
[13][14] Patexia-community members can use the “Community” platform to share news items, analyses/opinions, and IP reviews for which a specific intellectual asset is examined in detail.
[17] In addition to the promotion of efficiency, the “driving” of innovation has also been listed as an aim of Patexia, and Sameni has revealed his views on the progression of the IP field through the media.