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Car makers have not traditionally seen patents as a revenue driver in the automotive industry. But as technology becomes more important to the value of a vehicle, new threats to [...]

Table of Contents I. Introduction II. A Model for Innovation Dynamics A. Threshold Concerns in Constructing a Model for Innovation Dynamics B. The Basic Model and Its Explanation III. Operation [...]

There are many types of assessments that can be made involving intellectual property (IP). One type of IP assessment involves a determination of the potential value of a patent to [...]

When FAST COMPANY set out to find the most innovative company in America, we wanted to rely on objective measurements, but that proved daunting. How can you quantify something as […]

The reluctance of the Federal Circuit to use extrinsic evidence to help interpret disputed claims as a reason for the patentee to describe an invention in detail in a patent claim rather than relying on broad terminology is discussed. Decisions in disputed claim cases decided by the Federal Circuit have started hinging on this matter.

A survey of patent applications by plant biotechnology research companies was carried out to determine whether patents play a role in technology differentiation. The results, which reject E.W. Kitch's theory that they act as an incentive to innovation, indicate that minimal technological differentiation among competing interests reflects a weak regime of appropriability. As such, the vertical integration of new tools into specific applications underlies the dynamics of plant biotechnology.

PAEs are antitrust's latest "new new thing." (1) The last few years have witnessed, as this Symposium attests, the antitrust community's discovery of Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs). PAEs typically do [...]

THE COURT: Case No. 01-2014. We are here for oral argument on the government's motion for a permanent injunction. Counsel, you have submitted significant briefs after nine days of evidence [...]

In recent years, we have seen a dramatic upsurge of "strategic patent acquisitions." We define this as the acquisition of a portfolio of patents reading on a specified area such [...]

On December 12, 2012, the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission held a joint public workshop to explore the impact of patent assertion entity (PAE) activities on [...]

Byline: Abrams, Dan MALEGRAMS LEGAL EASE MAKE HER PAY My wife wants a divorce. She's loaded. Can I get alimony? -- Christian, San Diego, CA Assuming self-respect is not a [...]

If you have a license to a patent and have lingering doubts about whether the patent actually covers your product, two recent Supreme Court decisions should be of interest to [...]

Drug companies are more and more likely to license promising pharmaceutical compounds from other companies rather than develop their own. But does licensing pay? Competition to license pharmaceutical compounds is [...]

Companies that typically buy many patents then seek out successful companies to sue for infringement hold back innovation. The End Software Patents group points out that a company that operates a website could already be infringing over 4,300 patents. The Wrights brothers' monopoly over flying machines in the early 20th century is an example of how patents hold back emerging industries.

(As reported by T/DB sister publication DVD Report.) Word that Philips Electronics N.V. and Sony Corp. broke from the 10-company DVD Licenser Consortium and commenced licensing of its DVD-Video and [...]

A recent spate of multimedia software patents that critics charge are unfairly broad and cover technologies and concepts have brought the process of evaluating patent applications under scrutiny. Indeed, some […]