Patent Scholars Debate, But It Is What It Is
Back in September, Professor Mark Lemley began promoting his latest piece of scholarly work, entitled The Myth of the Sole Inventor. Lemley set out to discover the truth about a theory of patents he...
View ArticleMyopic Patent Cynicism
In September 2011, flawed research from a handful of Boston University professors made headlines with several highly popular news organizations claiming that patent owners were somehow responsible for...
View ArticleInventing A Way To Win The West – An American Patent Tale
Kenneth Lustig of Intellectual Ventures recently penned a fantastic essay about the American patent system and its unique place in history. (See No, The Patent System Is Not Broken). Today,...
View ArticleOf The Patent System, Risk Taking And ‘Not Being A Complete Puss’— An...
A patentee takes great risks. They deserve protection. Those are the words of Joe Atler, inventor of certain CGI techniques (US Patent 6,720,962) and self-made champion of his own cause. After getting...
View ArticleGlimpse Of America’s Future From Across The Pond – Are UK ‘SME’ Patents Worth...
An interesting story today from The Telegraph introduces inventor and small business owner Michael Wilcox. After spending £150,000 to develop his printing technology, Wilcox burned his patent in...
View ArticleHow Startups Should Plan For Patent Enforcement Costs
A few days ago, as covered on GametimeIP, a UK inventor Michael Wilcox burned his patent in protest over the failure of the patent system to provide realistic protection from appropriation of his...
View ArticleThe Intellectual Ventures / Nvidia Patent Partnership
Already widely reported this week, IPWireless sold 500+ patents and pending applications to a combination of Intellectual Ventures and Nvidia. Intellectual Ventures knew about the IPWireless portfolio...
View ArticleAkzoNobel And Intellectual Ventures Collaborate On R&D
From a press release circulated by Intellectual Ventures yesterday: Akzo Nobel N.V. (AkzoNobel) and Intellectual Ventures (IV®) announced today that they have entered into a joint collaboration...
View ArticleAn Interesting Patent “Pure Play”— Internet Patents Corp
My article about Internet Patents Corp (Nasdaq: PTNT), an operating company that converted in 2011 to a patent “pure play,” just published on Seeking Alpha. See Internet Patents Corp.: A Patent Pure...
View ArticleDo NPE’s “Cost” Us $29 B? Intellectual Ventures Co-Founder Peter Detkin Sets...
The BBC ran another article in a tired meme about evil patent owners supposedly “costing” billions per year. Of course, the article doesn’t specify who supposedly bore this $29 B “cost” or how it was...
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