This week IPwe, the company headed by former patent litigation king Erich Spangenberg, acquired ClearAccess IP, a venture-backed, Palo Alto-based IP analytics company associated through
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Improving access for minorities will not fix a ‘broken’ system, say inventors
Responses to the USPTO’s request for written comment on questions about the participation of minority inventors reveal a deep mistrust of the current patent system
Former unicorns lag techcos when it comes to patent grants, less when it comes to market cap
Selective comparisons of patent grants by company, industry and technology through 2017 show significant differences, when next generation of leading technology companies are compared with
Patent litigation is down 41% since 2015; IPRs are lowest since 2014
Patent disputes are significantly lower since they peaked at 5,874 in 2015. Litigation tumbled 41% to 3,491 cases in 2018, and was down 14% from
RPX buyout rumors set share price at a 27% premium, or $800M
Shares of RPX (RPXC) opened today at $13.88, up 2.81%, after rising 5.6% last Wednesday on rumors from two sources that the defensive patent aggregator
Topsy turvy: InterDigital posts 66% drop in 3Q net; Acacia up $158.4M
Public IP company stalwart, InterDigital, with PIPCO-leading performance over the past five years, was hit by a significant drop in its net earnings in the
Perception of patents & other IP rights is being taken more seriously
Do IP users – both businesses and individuals – view rights like patents and copyrights as potential assets that benefit commerce and society? Or, do
Qualcomm counter-offensive reminds NY Times readers who put the ‘smart’ in smartphone
Qualcomm is the first known patent licensor to tout its invention prowess in a New York Times ad directed at the business community. One of the
Gene-editing break-through: can a collision of science, ethics and (patent) ownership be avoided?
The USPTO decided in February that the rightful intellectual property owner of CRISPR in eukaryotes, a time-saving tool that makes it cheaper and easier to
Drops (& gains) in patent grants to top holders reflect changing times
Every picture tells a story. So does each increase or decrease in the number of U.S. patents major businesses receive over the prior year. The
PIPX IP stock index down 8.7% in Q1 after being up 11.2% and 20.4%
The PIPX public IP licensing company stock index came back down to earth in the first quarter of 2017. For Q1 the PIPX index was
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
