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 
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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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LES annual meeting to be held in Boston October 14-17
August 29, 2018 0 Comments
The birthplace of innovation, Boston, is the site for the 2018 Licensing Executives Society meeting. The opening session, “Advancing Innovation Through a Renewal of Trust,” will feature Andrei Iancu, USPTO Director, Bill Elkington, Senior Director – IP Management, Rockwell Collins and Walter Copan, National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) Director and Under Secretary of Commerce for […]
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IP CloseUp is named a “top 50” intellectual property blog
August 21, 2018 3 Comments
IP CloseUp has been named by Feedspot as a top-50 intellectual property blog. Feedspot, a news aggregator, named the top 100 IP blogs in which IP CloseUp was number 48. IPCU beat out quality competition, including many law firm publications and those from leading IP services providers. Criteria for inclusion on the list includes number of […]
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Rich values for IP services providers defy investor expectations
August 14, 2018 1 Comment
Prices for companies that support and sell IP services and analytical software remain surprisingly strong, even as patent licensing and sales continue to decline. Their success appears to be fueled by the very problems facing patents: lower values and lack of certainty. IP tools providers are the proverbial sellers of picks and shovels; the “miners” […]
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Can blockchain be a game-changer for millions of IP transactions?
July 24, 2018 0 Comments
The abundant promise of blockchain has yet to be realized. To many in IP, finance and tech, it is just beginning to come into sight. The initial application of blockchain’s distributed ledger, bitcoin, has turned out to be more of a speculative sideshow than a legitimate alternative currency. We hear repeatedly that bitcoin is merely […]
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