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"Thrombosis" contest online
Patexia's latest licensing search features an invention that reduces stent thrombosis.
"Throw" contest online
Patexia's newest prior art search contest features an interactive display system allowing users to "throw" objects off the screen.
Apple Earnings -- still hand-over-fist
Apple's quarterly earnings report came out better than some anticipated, reports Businessweek. The company saw continued success with its latest iProducts, announcing $43.6 billion ...
NPE licensing and tech transfer
Proliferating NPEs are a recent manifestation of an IP industry shifting in the direction of licensing, and an indicator that tech transfer needs to catch up.
How to license a patent; Patent Knowledge Tidbits
Patent licensing is an increasingly prominent way of monetizing inventions.
Mohit Yadav was a runner up in the Neural discharge for predicting cardiac disease contest that closed a few weeks ago.
After his victory we interviewed him... Read More »
Last week I published a post detailing the importance of pursuing and developing patent licensing agreements to monetize IP assets. This analysis does gloss over some ... Read More »
In the past we’ve written pretty extensively on some of the problems plaguing the patent system, from the USPTO to NPEs, and some possible solutions for them... Read More »
Defensive publication is the purposeful publication of an innovation creating prior art to block future patents on the same idea. The IP strategy isn’t new;... Read More »
Sibelle Andrade, an intellectual property analyst from Brazil, won $500 in the recent Jetpack contest. In the wake of her victory we interviewed her about her... Read More »
Stuart Soffer made an excellent guest post at Patently-o recently with his top 10 secrets for locating non-patent prior art.
Tips included going offline... Read More »
Stephen Jenei over at Patent Baristas posted an interesting analysis of the 2012 PwC paper proposing that courts, not Congress, shape the law.
Excerpted below:
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Dilligent Patexia users may have noticed a new type of contest recently appear on our site: “commercial use” or “licensing” searches. In fact, ... Read More »
A main goal of the patent system is to incentivize innovation within an economy. Investment in the research and development of inventions can be substantial. Without... Read More »
Technology companies are easily left behind in the world of consumer technology. A post in December of last year highlighted the importance of constant innovation in... Read More »
Innovators have flooded the patent system with applications.
Previous articles at Patexia have focused heavily on problems related to this sharp increase in... Read More »
Two weeks ago, on the first day of the new year, the world collectively switched to a new way of thinking about innovation. The switch was to a harmonized, collective ... Read More »
In 2012, Chinese inventors filed more patent applications than those in any other country--including the United States. In a recent Booz & Company report, the... Read More »
A certain patent-holding company wants to enforce its patent--that is, prevent another company from making and selling the invention described in that patent. That... Read More »
Nokia, RIM, Motorola, Google, Apple and Samsung. In 2012, they captured our imaginations by pushing the boundaries of mobile technology and our media attention by... Read More »
Undoubtedly, 2012 was a big year for the intellectual property world. Significant developments not only in the United States at the USPTO but around the world will... Read More »
"In a sense, the patent system is itself a prize system, albeit a peculiar one."
In a 2007 paper Joseph Stiglitz, Columbia University professor and... Read More »
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Looking back on 2012 and ahead to 2013, the... Read More »
Early this week the European Union finally accomplished what has long seemed highly unlikely--a unified European Patent known as the "unitary" patent... Read More »
When Google purchased Motorola earlier this year, their intent to monopolize on Motorola's
well-established patent portfolio was clear. As a result... Read More »
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