By Bruce Berman With a greater role in more businesses’ performance, patent assets and strategy are going under the microscope. The required disclosure and hyper-scrutiny that small public patent licensing companies are subject to may be starting to affect larger, more defensive IP holders, including Apple, Intel and Sony. The increased interest is more likely to benefit […]
Prior art search – the gold standard
December 23, 2013 by Leave a Comment
By Donal O’Connell Prior art Prior art or state of the art or background art in most systems of patent law constitutes all information that has been made available to the public in any form before a given date that might be relevant to a patent’s claims of originality. If an invention has been described […]
Operation Ninja S.T.A.R. – Help fight patent trolls
December 16, 2013 by 1 Comment
By Peter Vanderheyden from Article One Partners. Introduction Imagine you’re a startup that just created an exciting new online game. But then, just as it gains popularity (and a little revenue), you get a letter claiming your new game infringes a mysterious company’s patent. The company demands that you pay a sizable settlement fee or […]
Diligent Intellectual Property Management for Business Success
December 11, 2013 by Leave a Comment
By Peter Ackerman What do a Koosh ball and a tab of Viagra have in common? Aside from the pleasure they bring to millions, their economic success is premised upon the same type of IP protection. The company that makes Koosh balls – rainbow-colored, plasma-filled rubber balls with protruding soft rubber spikes – and the […]
Crowdfunding 101: Don’t forget to protect your idea
November 27, 2013 by 1 Comment
By Mary Juetten and Efrat Kasznik The ‘Jumpstart Our Business Startups’ Act, otherwise known as the JOBS Act, hit another milestone with the recent lifting of the 80-year ban on solicitation. At our last count, there were over 1,000 crowdfunding platforms awaiting the US-wide equity crowdfunding ‘Title III’ SEC regulations, anticipated to be released in […]
The Future of the Innovation Patent System
November 13, 2013 by 2 Comments
In the context of the current review of the current Australian Innovation Patents System [i] By Ian A. Maxwell For a standard Australian patent to be granted, an invention must be amongst other things both novel and inventive. The test for novelty differs from one patent jurisdiction to another but has some universally common features. In […]
Dissecting intangible assets
October 30, 2013 by Leave a Comment
By Donal O’Connell Dissecting intangible assets Imagine for a moment the Royal Air Force’s roundel, that red, white and blue circular identification mark painted on aircraft to identify them. That roundel has also been associated with pop art of the 1960s It became part of the pop consciousness when British rock group The Who wore […]
Intellectual Property Risk Mitigation
June 19, 2013 by Leave a Comment
By Donal O’Connell Risk Risk is the chance of something going wrong, and the danger that damage or loss will occur, whereas risk management is the process of analysing exposure to risk and determining how best to then handle such exposure. Intellectual Property (IP) By its very nature, there are both rewards and risks associated […]
Licensing and IP Issues for Mobile and Social Game Developers
June 13, 2013 by Leave a Comment
By Sam Wiley and Adam Falconer Introduction Gaming is big business, involving unique opportunities and challenges. In the gaming ecosystem, there are technology and hardware companies, production companies, investors and publishers, content owners, consumers, and of course developers, designers and artists. As the lines between mobile app development, social gaming and traditional gaming continue to […]
Invention harvesting
June 5, 2013 by 1 Comment
By Donal O’Connell To invent: To invent means to produce or contrive something previously unknown by the use of ingenuity or imagination. An inventor is therefore someone who invents, someone who devises some new process, appliance, machine, or article. When a new product appears, the person who first thought of it, and who first defined […]
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