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
Author: Bruce Berman
Intellectual property observer, adviser, owner, author.
Can blockchain be a game-changer for millions of IP transactions?
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.
In Memoriam: Dan Scotto, perennial ‘All-America’ Wall Street Analyst and Research Director
Dan Scotto, a Wall Street research icon in the 1980s and 1990s died last week and with him an era of investment research that is
AST’s 2018 patent purchase program is open July 9 – July 20
Patent holders, this year’s version of Allied Security Trust’s Industry Patent Purchase Program, “IP3,” is a good indication of where the demand is highest. The
Authors to DOJ: “Strong patent rights are vital to U.S. economic and security interests”
The United States Supreme Court and the Congress have moved to weaken patents over the past seven years without realizing the inherent danger to national
Responsible deal-making is the focus of SF IP conference, 9/18
Responsible IP deal-making – where parties enter into licensing and other agreements mutually – has become something of a lost art. Not long ago, it
“What kind of man owns his own computer?” Ben Franklin knows
Invention is about the future. Looking back at the technology and images that defined us can provide an idea of where we are headed. A
Can the U.S. compete with China without a focused innovation policy?
More nations today have an innovation policy than do not – that is except for the U.S. The U.S. not only has no centralized innovation
$88.3M (CD) for Canadian IP literacy and tools via new strategy
The Canadian government has announced that it is investing $88.3M CD in a new IP strategy that incorporates tools and education, and improves literacy. Canada’s population
Rep. Collins speaks from IP experience at CIPU-GIPC innovation policy forum
Congressman Doug Collins (R-GA) launches the CIPU Washington briefing with a personal account of IP growing up on a farm. He said that a number
Patents for Financial Services Summit to examine IP system health
The 15th Annual Patents for Financial Services Summit will gather patent and IP counsel, as well as senior financial executives, to discuss recent trends in
Reactions to Oil States show that patent due process is not dead
Two days before World IP Day, on April 24, the Supreme Court of the United States relinquished significant judicial authority for patents to the executive
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