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
Caught and Released
MOSAID Buys AST Patents MOSAID a well-know Canadian NPE that owns approximately 2,000 semiconductor, communications and related patents disclosed on March 3 in a regulatory
Outside Perspective
Patents: Use Them or Lose Them Russell L. Parr, President of Intellectual Property Research Associates, Inc. (IPRA), is at the top tier of the IP
IP Law & Business
IPL&B is Folded into Corporate Counsel I learned recently that IP Law & Businesses, a decade old monthly published by American Lawyer Media, was folded
Interview – Joe Beyers
The Ocean Liner and the Speed Boat Joe Beyers headed IP business at H-P where for decades he helped to monetize thousands of patents and other innovation rights in
