A Reply to Professors Bessen and Meurer’s Book About the Difficulty of Perfecting the Patent System By Roya Ghafele and Benjamin Gibert The publication of
Tag: NPEs
The Great Patent Debate Will Kick-Off Day Two of World IP Business Congress in San Francisco
Do Patents Help or Hurt Innovation? Skepticism about the patent system is growing even as more businesses and people benefit from IP rights. Recent passage
Cook Book by Innovative IP Owner is No Recipe for Success
Myhrvold’s ‘Modernist Cuisine’ Inspires and Confounds – Over the past ten years much has been written about Intellectual Ventures, the IP acquisition and licensing business, and its enigmatic founder, Nathan Myhrvold. A
New Patent Litigation Survey Confirms NPE Growth
What’s Fueling Higher Awards? Damages awards for NPEs (non-practicing patent owning entities) are on average triple those of practicing entities, according to handy 2010 Patent
Patent “War” Launched by Billionaire Allen
MSFT Founder Sues Over Web Rights – Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is claiming in a suit filed in filed on Friday in Seattle that patents owned by a company that he once
Patent “Plot” Thickens
EDN Takes a Fresh Look at NPEs In the current Electronic Design, Strategy, News, contributing editor Tam Harbert cuts to the heart of the NPE matter with a timely
Patent Litigation Trends
NPE Impact is Focus of PwC Study A very useful study was recently released from PwC. “A Closer Look –Patent litigation trends and the increasing
CEO Guide
BW (yawn… ) on Patent Trolls Business Week recently ran a special report under the heading “CEO Guide to Patent Trolls.” Much of the five-article
