'Digital Opportunity': Round-up on UK's Intellectual Property and its Growth
'Digital Opportunity' is the report prepared by Prof. Ian Hargreaves followed by a six-month review conducted independently, which was commissioned by the Prime Minister of United Kingdom. It pertains...
View ArticleDanny HillisâInventor, Innovator, High Priest of the Long Now
Take a look around just about any American city and it’s pretty clear we’re a “culture of Now.” Here in Los Angeles, it’s more apparent than in most. From where I sit writing this, I see a 99-Cent...
View ArticleCorporate love for litigation
NPEs historically get a pretty raw deal when it comes to PR, with article after article amounting against the practice of essentially turning patents into commodities. The tides have slowly been...
View ArticleIP in Eastern Europe - Study case: Romania
Invention and trademarks – how you do it if you live in Romania? At the State Office for Inventions and Trademarks you can register for patents, utility models, trademarks and geographical...
View ArticleThe IP Gap: Do Patents Impact U.S. Unicorn Valuations
Silicon Valley’s “unicorns” or startups (pre-exit) with a valuation exceeding $1 billion, have been drawing non-stop press with their rapid growth and enormous valuations for companies of their age....
View ArticleProbiotics: IP Perspectives on the Microbiome
Written by Daniel K. Yarbrough, Ph.D. and Jing Liu, Ph.D. Once considered parasites, free riders, or “opportunistic pathogens,” in recent years the roughly 100 trillion symbiotic bacteria that inhabit...
View ArticleFresh From the Bench: Precedential Patent Cases From the Federal Circuit
The Supreme Court is taking another patent case, granting certiorari in WesternGeco v. Ion. A divided panel of the Circuit had ruled that the plaintiff was not entitled to lost profits as a result of...
View ArticleAnything Your Heart Designs: Swarovski Hit with Copyright Infringement of...
On December 4, 2017 Galatea Jewelry (“Galatea” or “Plaintiff”) filed a copyright infringement suit in the District Court for the Central District of California against the well-known crystal jewelry...
View ArticleTop Ten List of Patent News Stories in 2018
Although this list will reach most the readers of Patents4Life after 2019 begins, 2018 deserves some attention even if it has the feel of “those we lost in 2018” lists. Although most of my...
View ArticlePatexia Insight 81: Companies with the Largest Growth or Decline of Patent...
Last couple of weeks, we looked at the impact of COVID-19 and recession on IP, specifically patent prosecution. We concluded that there would be at least two to four percent decline in the number of...
View ArticlePatexia Insight 92: Top 10 Patent Firms by Revenue
Update: After publishing this article on October 7, 2020, several law firms reached out to confirm their actual patent prosecution revenue which helped us discover a bug in our model. The error had...
View ArticlePatexia Insight 94: IBM's US Patent Budget is Estimated around $280M Annually
In the last few weeks, we have written about patent prosecution spending in the US using our revenue and cost estimation models. First, we estimated the size of the US patent prosecution market to be...
View ArticleBest Practices for Trade Secrets Protection during Remote Work
The current pandemic besides the economic effects on businesses, has caused many social changes as well, such as the shift in the workforce for the majority of industries. More and more we are...
View ArticleShould You Patent Your Design?
The design patents are the second most common type of patent after the utility ones. By obtaining a design patent you will legally protect the unique visual features and qualities of an item...
View ArticleBryan F. Moore Named Administrative Law Judge At U.S. International Trade...
ITC Administrative Law Judge Sandra "Dee" Lord that was appointed in 2013, already retired in early April. Soon after that, a job vacancy was posted at usajobs.gov where the applicants were required...
View ArticleEnergy & Sustainability IP Updates
In U.S. technology news, Heliogen, Inc., a renewable energy technology company, recently announced its selection to receive a $4,100,000 award from the U. S. Department of Energy’s “Solar Energy...
View ArticleIP Reporting—The New Must-Have of a Sound IP Management Strategy
In an economy where intangibles increasingly drive economic growth, reporting to shareholders, lenders, and the market more generally on substantial intellectual property (IP) assets, IP management,...
View ArticleWomen Leading the Way in Intellectual Property: Celebrating Their...
International Women's Day is a time to celebrate the contributions and achievements of women across all industries. In the field of intellectual property, women have made significant strides in recent...
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