GUEST COLUMN: At the IP Awareness Summit held at the Columbia University on November 29 Jay Walker, entrepreneur, prolific inventor, TEDMED curator and founder of Priceline.com, spoke about a “broken” patent system and need for a Constitutional Convention to fix it. In the following response to Walker’s speech, Brenda Pomerance takes a different view. […]
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To encourage investors the IP system must provide stability and predictability, says USPTO head
December 4, 2018 
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IP is the engine that makes economic and cultural developments work and the USPTO keenly focused on facilitating this goal. That was the message delivered by Undersecretary of Commerce and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Andrei Iancu, at the Second Annual Intellectual Property Awareness Summit in New York on November 29. […]
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USPTO Director Iancu, top-ten inventor Jay Walker and IBM’s patent chief + surprises set for IP Awareness Summit this week
November 26, 2018 1 Comment
The IP Awareness Summit 2018 – IP literacy matters The second annual Intellectual Property Awareness Summit is being held at Columbia University in New York this Thursday, November 29. The Summit is being held by the Center for IP Understanding (CIPU), an independent non-profit. This year year’s theme is IP literacy in a digital world. Featured […]
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U.S. cities are attracting a lower percentage of startup capital
November 19, 2018 0 Comments
Several surveys of global innovation have noted that the U.S. innovation edge is slipping, but until now they have not pinpointed where the U.S. share of global tech investment is going and possible reasons why. A recent report detailing which cities today are attracting the most venture capital, Rise of the Global Startup City, states […]
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Et tu, TechCo? Some potential patent licensees should be outed for abusive behavior
November 13, 2018 0 Comments
What is the appropriate response to a legitimate request for patent licensing? If you are an information technology company comfortable taking full advantage of confusion in the patent system, and unfettered by business ethics, it may be tossing the offer in the garbage can — just because you can. Can a business simply ignore a […]
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Costs to establish clear patent ownership are soaring – Here’s why
October 30, 2018 0 Comments
It has never been easy for American innovators hoping to generate a return on their inventions, but new hurdles have made it impossible to license even the best patents. Despite increased availability of capital and access to data, IT patents today have a much more difficult time proving themselves than a decade or a century […]
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Patent “abuse” stories is the subject of a website and forthcoming book
October 18, 2018 1 Comment
From Michelangelo to Edison and Bell, inventor success stories are well-known. But patent and inventor abuse stories – such as inventor Robert Kearns’ and his intermittent windshield wiper, famously infringed by almost every auto manufacturer and well-captured in the feature film, “Flash of Genius” – are less well-known. An organization supported by a GoFundMe campaign is […]
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IP Awareness Summit update: keynotes to include top-ten inventor, Jay Walker, USPTO Director Iancu and IBM’s Schecter
October 9, 2018 0 Comments
Priceline.com founder and one of the most prolific and successful U.S. inventors in history will join USPTO Director Andrei Iancu and IBM Chief Patent Counsel Manny Schecter as featured speakers at the IP Awareness Summit in NYC on November 29. The Summit will is being held by the Center for IP Understanding, an independent non-profit, […]
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Too sexy to be taken seriously: movie star’s invention story is a lesson for both men and women
September 27, 2018 0 Comments
In the 1930s she was called “the most beautiful woman in the world,” but screen star Hedy Lamarr was obsessed with how things worked. An Austrian émigré in Hollywood, Lamar, intellectually curious and highly patriotic, and who was raised Jewish, wanted to do something to help her adopted country defeat the Nazis. This prompted her […]
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IPCU readers can save $200 on IP Dealmakers Forum Nov 6-8 in NY
September 18, 2018 1 Comment
Patent monetization is alive and improving. Look no further than the 5th annual IP Dealmakers Forum, which will attract the top players in IP licensing, sales and litigation funding to the Alexandria Center overlooking NYC’s East River, November 6-8. IP CloseUp readers can save $200 off of registration by using discount code IPDF18_CIPU. Panels include: IP […]
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IP CloseUp readers can save $100 on Patent Law & Policy DC event
September 11, 2018 1 Comment
House Judiciary Committee’s Cong. Doug Collins (R-GA), a leading proponent of more effective IP legislation, will be a speaker at the 4th annual Patent Law & Policy conference to be held at the Ronald Reagan International Trade Center in Washington on November 23. Congressman Collins was instrumental in the success of the Music Modernization Act, […]
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12-fold increase in China’s U.S. trademark apps; many are said to be fraudulent and improperly filed
September 4, 2018 1 Comment
Cash subsidies are among the incentives fueling a dramatic rise in U.S. trademark applications by Chinese filers. Thousands are said to be improperly filed and unlikely to be granted. In a national effort to increase IP ownership China is paying companies and individuals, some of them prisoners, as much as the equivalent of $800 to […]
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