LexInnova Technologies, LLC, is a legal services and technology consulting company headquartered in

Houston Houston (; ) is the most populous city in Texas, the most populous city in the Southern United States, the fourth-most populous city in the United States, and the sixth-most populous city in North America, with a population of 2,304,580 i ...

Texas Texas (, ; Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2020, it is the second-largest U.S. state by ...

. It specializes in providing

patent litigation Patent infringement is the commission of a prohibited act with respect to a patented invention without permission from the patent holder. Permission may typically be granted in the form of a license. The definition of patent infringement may va ...

consulting,

patent A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure of the invention."A ...

analytics,

eDiscovery Electronic discovery (also ediscovery or e-discovery) refers to discovery in legal proceedings such as litigation, government investigations, or Freedom of Information Act requests, where the information sought is in electronic format (often r ...

, legal due diligence, license management,

intellectual property Intellectual property (IP) is a category of property that includes intangible creations of the human intellect. There are many types of intellectual property, and some countries recognize more than others. The best-known types are patents, cop ...

advisory, and technology consulting services to law firms and

corporation A corporation is an organization—usually a group of people or a company—authorized by the state to act as a single entity (a legal entity recognized by private and public law "born out of statute"; a legal person in legal context) and ...

s. The company also has offices at

Cupertino, California Cupertino ( ) is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States, directly west of San Jose on the western edge of the Santa Clara Valley with portions extending into the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains. The population was 57,82 ...

, Houston, Texas and

Gurgaon, India Gurgaon (pronunciation: �ʊɽɡãːw, officially named Gurugram (pronunciation: �ʊɾʊɡɾaːm, is a city located in the northern Indian state of Haryana. It is situated near the Delhi–Haryana border, about southwest of the nationa ...

Overview

LexInnova Technologies was founded in May 2009, by Abhi Verma, an alumnus of IIT Varanasi and

Harvard Law Harvard Law School (Harvard Law or HLS) is the law school of Harvard University, a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest continuously operating law school in the United States. Each class ...

, to provide legal and intellectual property solutions to in-house and outside counsel. They also provide consulting to technology companies to help them focus their R&D efforts and identify gaps in their IP portfolio. The company employs

engineers Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who invent, design, analyze, build and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while considering the ...

, technocrats, lawyers,

scientist A scientist is a person who conducts scientific research to advance knowledge in an area of the natural sciences. In classical antiquity, there was no real ancient analog of a modern scientist. Instead, philosophers engaged in the philosoph ...

s and legal project managers. In July, 2015, LexInnova was cited in

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magazine for its patent portfolio analytics report on Internet of Things.

Notable publications

LexInnova's analysis of the IP portfolios of

Nokia Nokia Corporation (natively Nokia Oyj, referred to as Nokia) is a Finnish multinational telecommunications, information technology, and consumer electronics corporation, established in 1865. Nokia's main headquarters are in Espoo, Finland, i ...

and

Alcatel-Lucent Alcatel–Lucent S.A. () was a French–American global telecommunications equipment company, headquartered in Boulogne-Billancourt, France. It was formed in 2006 by the merger of France-based Alcatel and U.S.-based Lucent, the latter being a s ...

was published in

USA Today ''USA Today'' (stylized in all uppercase) is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company. Founded by Al Neuharth on September 15, 1982, the newspaper operates from Gannett's corporate headquarters in Tysons, Virgi ...

, Computerworld and

Barron's magazine ''Barron's'' is an American weekly magazine/newspaper published by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corp. Founded in 1921 by Clarence W. Barron (1855–1928) as a sister publication to ''The Wall Street Journal'', ''Barron's'' covers U ...

when news broke of the two companies merging on 14 April 2015. LexInnova's research report and opinions have been featured in a technology article on the Internet of Things (IoT) and has been published in

in July 2015, CIO Insight, and The Investor's Business Daily. Their reports on Chinese

smartphone A smartphone is a portable computer device that combines mobile telephone and computing functions into one unit. They are distinguished from feature phones by their stronger hardware capabilities and extensive mobile operating systems, whic ...

maker

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have featured in

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CNBC CNBC (formerly Consumer News and Business Channel) is an American basic cable business news channel. It provides business news programming on weekdays from 5:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., Eastern Time, while broadcasting talk sho ...

, International Business Times, Lexinnova's report on ‘Network Security: Overview of patent out-licensing opportunities’ evaluated the information-security portfolios of information-security vendors and reflected in Australian CSO, WIPR and Fierce Interprise Communications defining the number of patents held by different companies. Fierce Wireless Tech cited LexInnova's Wireless Power analysis on the biggest amount of patent applications filed and received for technology related to wireless power. In Enterprise Tech publication (May 2015) LexInnova's report on 3D memory was mentioned in accordance to the allusion that the majority of R&D in SSD technology has been in 3D NAND, which is the most important technology for increasing the capacity and lowering the cost per gigabyte of storage drives. LexInnova's observation of Virtual reality patent race taken from the same report was mentioned in Hypergrid Business article ‘Sony leads virtual reality patent race’. Insights from LexInnova's report on Wireless Power have been featured by Qualcomm, American global semiconductor company, in its company blog.

References

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