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Tag: intellectual property
97% of Europeans regard IP rights favorably; 41% ages 15-24 believe it is sometimes OK to buy counterfeits
When it comes to intellectual property rights Europeans are highly respectful, except among the young, where buying counterfeits has gown. That is the primary take-away
Patent transactions are flat; U.S. asking prices firm at $250K per
The number of patent sales in the 4Q 2016 remained about the same, but the median asking price of sellers of U.S. patents was higher
Inventor Kearns’ fight with Ford & other auto cos is 2016’s most read IP CloseUp post; 20,000+ visitors
An article summarizing inventor Robert Kearns’ epic battle against the automobile industry is this year’s most read IP CloseUp post with more than 21,000 visits.
EFF’s narrow position on university tech transfer is “wildly misguided”
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is attempting to paint a scarlet letter on universities with public funding who benefit from sharing discoveries with those best-equipped
Licensing deal with IP rights group ends YouTube blackout in Germany – “no more red faces”
Tens of thousands of recording artists and musicians in Germany will be receiving payment for their content under the terms of agreement struck last week
No Monkey Business: Animal selfie raises serious questions about copyright ownership
Who is the legitimate owner of a selfie taken by a monkey, but positioned by a nature photographer? Is it the intellectual property of the
“All Prior Art” algorithm won’t stop bad patents or actors
Stopping new inventions dead in their tracks by making them “automatically” unpatentable might sound like a good idea to some. However, programming a computer to
PIPCO stocks soar in a surprising first half for the second quarter
In what some patent holders are hoping will be a harbinger of things to come, publicly traded IP licensing companies are enjoying an unusually strong
“Building an Innovation Economy” is focus of latest Hoover IP² event
IP², an initiative of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, last week hosted a more than 60 IP scholars, economists and practitioners to hear and challenge research
The impact of higher patent licensing hurdles may not be fully understood
Most patent holders would agree that licensing patents for revenue has gone from bad to awful — from difficult less than a decade ago, to
Named on 40+ patents chemist sleeps in car on a Brooklyn Street
For more than a year a man slept in his SUV parked on the upscale Park Slope section of Brooklyn. The man, call him Gene,
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