This past January, patent attorney and IPWatchdog founder, Gene Quinn, had the opportunity to go on the record with Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office Michelle… Read More »
Colleen Chien, a law professor at Santa Clara University and a former senior advisor to President Obama on intellectual property and innovation, recently wrote in The Wall Street Journal that small businesses may want to simply ignore… Read More »
The United States has dominated the patent market since the 19th century. But with a weakening of patent rights and the steady march of globalisation, that pre-eminence is no longer assured. Welcome to the new multi-polar patent… Read More »
Yesterday The Hill published an op-ed written by Timothy Lee, who is senior vice president of Legal and Public Affairs at the Center for Individual Freedom, a group that according to Lee “most strongly” supports patent reform, specifically the… Read More »
A new study of patents and their effects on business claims that the U.S. patent system has significant benefits for start-up businesses. “The Bright Side of Patents” by Joan Farre-Mensa of Harvard Business School, Deepak Hegde, and Alexander Ljungqvist of New… Read More »
A new paper entitled “The Bright Side of Patents” has thrown fresh light on the economic benefits that patents bring to start-up businesses. In doing so, it provides a clear response to the groundswell of research in… Read More »
On Thursday afternoon, two U.S. federal marshals showed up at the Consumer Electronics Show to conduct a raid. As a crowd gathered, the marshals packed up a one-wheeled skateboard on display at a Chinese company’s booth, as… Read More »
In 1838, John Lyde Wilson, a former governor of South Carolina, made a grim contribution to the literature of dispute resolution by publishing “The Code of Honor; or Rules for the Government of Principals and Seconds in… Read More »
As the so-called “patent troll” issue comes into the spotlight, a Washington, D.C.-based economist and inventor believes that Congress needs to take a careful approach in coming up with legislation to update the nation’s patent and trademark… Read More »
On Tuesday evening December 8, 2015, Jay Walker, a prolific patented inventor and billionaire businessman, was named National Inventor of the Year by the Intellectual Property Owners (IPO) Educational Foundation at their annual celebration in Washington, DC. Walker, the… Read More »
