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Most Cited Business Scholar: The U.S. Can’t Just Create Innovation – It Must Capture It

December 7, 2022 Bruce Berman

Despite the U.S.’s history of generating innovation, it has a less than stellar record for capturing and otherwise monetizing it.  Digitalization and the ease of

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IP Rights Awareness is Being Taught to Students of All Ages ‘to Build China into an IP Powerhouse’

April 12, 2022 Bruce Berman

A leading source for disseminating official Chinese information, China Daily, reported recently that increased emphasis is being placed on training intellectual property specialists, “the most

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Fortune Magazine Commentary Lacerates BigTech for Spending More on Legal Than R&D

February 8, 2022 Bruce Berman

A bastion of business coverage of large corporations since the 1920s, Fortune Magazine, lambasted BigTech companies because they “acquire and kill competitors and copy other

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Inventor in Oscar-Winning doc: “Students should learn the significance of patents and IP Rights”

March 10, 2020 Bruce Berman

Top-Fifty member of the Fortune’s “World’s Greatest Leaders,” Arunachalam Muruganantham, inventor of an inexpensive machine that make sanitary pads for women, says students need to

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Tech pioneer Nolan Bushnell to keynote IPO annual meeting in SF

August 14, 2017 Bruce Berman

This year’s Intellectual Property Owners Association annual meeting will feature a presentation by the founder of Atari Computer and Chuck E Cheese’s Pizza Time Theater,

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Patents are rights, not privileges; Jefferson story is “historical myth”

July 21, 2016 Bruce Berman

Is it any wonder why patents are widely despised and holders mistrusted? Patents and other IP rights have been caught in the perfect storm of anger

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EU study: IP holders have 29% more revenue per employee; pay 20% higher wages

July 6, 2015 Bruce Berman

Companies that own intellectual property rights typically generate 29% higher revenue per employee, have about six times as many employees, and pay wages that are

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Patent ‘Quality Summit’ will be open to the public, March 25-26

March 9, 2015 Bruce Berman

The goal of the USPTO gathering is to promote discussion of ways to improve patent quality. The first Patent Quality Summit will take place at

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Perfect Storm is Set to Slam IP Rights, Holders

February 6, 2012 Bruce Berman

Everyone Will Take a Hit Broad and largely unfounded disdain for intellectual property rights and holders has gone beyond bickering between operating companies and NPEs,

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iPlaces – SF Bay Area-Silicon Valley

March 11, 2010 Bruce Berman

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

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Bruce Berman is a long-time IP observer, editor and innovation strategist. He is in close close contact with the leading IP owners and influencers, and tracks latest trends and developments, including data, strategy and performance.

Since founding Brody Berman Associates in 1988 Bruce has been working with IP holders, executives and investors, as well as more than 80 law firms and their clients. In 2016 he founded the Center for IP Understanding, an independent non-profit, www.understandingip.org. He has been on an IAM 300 Leading IP Strategist every year since 2011 and is a member of its Hall of Fame Academy.

Bruce is responsible for five books, including the best-seller "From Ideas to Assets." He wrote The Intangible Investor column for every issue of IAM Magazine from 2003-2020, which he now contributes to IP Watchdog. IP CloseUp has generated more than 265,000 visits over the past five years. For Bruce's full bio, visit www.brodyberman.com or click below.


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