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 not likely to return. Dan’s understanding of assets, tangible and intangible, and how they could be monetized, was ahead of its time. He taught by example and showed a generation […]
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AST’s 2018 patent purchase program is open July 9 – July 20
July 9, 2018 
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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 2018 fixed price, time-limited program AST and its members are searching for patents primarily in the following categories: Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning Augmented Reality / Virtual Reality Automotive / Transportation […]
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Authors to DOJ: “Strong patent rights are vital to U.S. economic and security interests”
June 25, 2018 2 Comments
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 interests. “Strong patents rights are vital to the economic and national security interests of this country,” say James Rill and David J. Teece in an article published last week, “The […]
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Responsible deal-making is the focus of SF IP conference, 9/18
June 14, 2018 0 Comments
Responsible IP deal-making – where parties enter into licensing and other agreements mutually – has become something of a lost art. Not long ago, it was a best-practice. Many companies need to in-license to practice the inventions that cover their products. Similarly, not every business has the capital to make products from its inventions. Those […]
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“What kind of man owns his own computer?” Ben Franklin knows
June 5, 2018 0 Comments
Invention is about the future. Looking back at the technology and images that defined us, however, can provide an idea of where we are headed. A case in point is the Apple II personal computer. The ad below appeared in the venerable Scientific American magazine in May 1980. It seems almost laughable in its blatant appeal to […]
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Can the U.S. compete with China without a focused innovation policy?
May 29, 2018 0 Comments
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 and intellectual property policy, it has no real strategy for making IP rights more meaningful and American businesses more competitive in the wake of initiatives from China. Some believe it […]
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$88.3M (CD) for Canadian IP literacy and tools via new strategy
May 21, 2018 0 Comments
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 is approximately one-tenth of that of the U.S.’ The government wants to help business, creators, entrepreneurs, and investors better understand, protect and access intellectual property (IP) through a comprehensive IP […]
Continue readingRep. Collins speaks from IP experience at CIPU-GIPC innovation policy forum
May 10, 2018 0 Comments
On Tuesday an open briefing was held in Washington to better understand U.S. innovation and IP policy. Congressman Doug Collins (R-GA), a supporter of strong and certain IP rights, launched the event with a personal account of his exposure to IP rights growing up in rural Georgia. He said that a number of his relatives […]
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Patents for Financial Services Summit to examine IP system health
May 7, 2018 0 Comments
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 financial patent litigation, value, and patentability. The Summit will be held July 25-26 at the Sheraton Times Square in New York. Presentations include updates on CBMs, IPRs, Oil States vs. Greene, […]
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Reactions to Oil States show that patent due process is not dead
April 30, 2018 3 Comments
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 branch in Oil States Energy v. Greene’s Energy. This decision upheld the constitutionality of the Patent Trial and Review Board. The Wall Street Journal stated in a thoughtful and uncharacteristically […]
Continue reading59% of blockchain patents are owned by developers; BofA and IBM dominate financial and tech players
April 24, 2018 1 Comment
More than half of U.S. blockchain patents are owned by blockchain-specific developers, while 20% are owned by financial institutions, led by Bank of America (see pie chart below). Number three, Fidelity, has about a third as many patents as BofA. Number two, MasterCard, some 50% fewer. 13% are owned by traditional technology businesses, led by IBM, which owns […]
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USPTO Director Iancu will keynote 2018 IPBC Global in San Francisco
April 17, 2018 0 Comments
An impressive group of speakers, sponsors and supporters, led by USPTO Director and Undersecretary of Commerce, Andrei Iancu, will be featured at the 11th global Intellectual Property Business Congress in San Francisco, June 10-12 at the Palace Hotel. Director Iancu has indicated that he will support the long-awaited move to greater certainty in the U.S. […]
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