Creditors Should Covet IP, Not Costs In a wry and informative Sunday Business piece in The New York Times, “Who Knew Bankruptcy Paid So Well?,”
Author: Bruce Berman
Intellectual property observer, adviser, owner, author.
SEC Investigates Goldman Sachs Fraud
The Gold Standard No More? In a provocative IAM blog, Joff Wild asks will the Goldman Sachs brand be irreparably harmed from the SEC fraud
Patent Troll Defense
Insurer Must Provide Defense Coverage To Hyundai in “Troll” Dispute In a story that received scant media coverage, an appeals court has decided that two
Surveying the IP Landscape
Help to Measure the State of IP, 2010 The importance of IP rights to business performance and value has grown significantly over the past decade. But where does
Gene Patents on Trial
An Invention or a Discovery? Human genes have been called unpatentable and anti-competitive. Everyone from the ACLU to patients who demand cheaper tests are weighing in on the debate.
The Intangible Investor
Great Expectations The cost to create, identify, secure, and generate a measurable return on innovation has skyrocketed. Yet the need to have identifiable IP rights
What They're Saying
Top Topics at IP Conferences Here are the top 10 things people are saying at intellectual property conferences around the world. They are courtesy of an East
Patent Bill Update
Broad Spectrum of Opponents Bet you never thought that you would be reading about, let alone siding with, conservative political columnist Phyllis Schlafly and iconoclast prior art guru and
Eureaka! The Harvard Business Review
HBR Article Takes Aim at IV Doubters Intellectual Ventures makes its most convincing argument yet in support of its patent rights business model in an
Patent Portfolio Sale
Nortel Wireless Sale: Unprecedented Interesting story today in TelecomTV by Peggy Albright about bankrupt Nortel’s disposition of IP assets. “Even the process Nortel is going through
iPlaces – SF Bay Area-Silicon Valley
IP Asset-land – Some places lend themselves to innovation. Some also lend themselves to new uses of innovation rights. Silicon Valley is one such area. In and
Patent Reform in the Senate
Bill Language “Little Improved” Patent reform is back in the news and those who are watching developments say there have been few. The bill now before
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