Posts Tagged: innovation
Google Downplays Importance of STEM Education Despite Increased Job Opportunities and Wage Prospects for Workers
Looking at the results of multi-year studies conducted by Google into its own employment practices, including hiring standards and team productivity, Davidson noted Google’s own findings …
How IP-Protected Innovation is Driving Economic Growth
IP-protected innovation is now the principal driver of corporate value and is driving economic growth nationally. Developing an IP portfolio is now a basic requirement even for …
The U.S. Needs to Make IP Policy a Priority, Now
In the absence of a discernable IP policy, America achieved leadership through laws and courts that supported inventors, and commerce, and that encouraged risk-taking. But the world …
When Failure Becomes an Asset
Failure is success if we learn. So why shouldn't failure qualify as a trade secret? Competitors would love to avoid making the effort and taking the risk... …
Is Brookings Pushing an Efficient Infringer Narrative with Biased Panel Discussion?
Unfortunately, there’s every indication that today’s event at Brookings will feature more of the same kind of misguided rhetoric on perceived issues with the patent …
The New Era of Antitrust Law and Policy in Standards: Embracing Evidence Based Policy-making
On November 10, 2017, the Department of Justice’s (DOJ’s) new top antitrust enforcer, Assistant Attorney General (AAG) Makan Delrahim, delivered a powerful speech on antitrust law and …
The 7 Deadly Sins: A Roadmap to Business Success
The 7 deadly sins are lust, envy, gluttony, sloth, greed, anger and pride. In business, these deadly sins are not particularly a negative, at least when moderated or …
Hakuna Matada Isn’t a Strategy for Paradigm Shifting Innovation
Wouldn’t it be a great world if people innovated for the sake of innovating, spending every waking moment in the pursuit of solutions and inventions that …
WIPO and pharmaceutical industry joining forces to improve meds patent info
Protecting innovation through patents is the lifeblood of the global pharmaceutical industry. Without patents the world and its expanding population would be deprived of new and, ultimately, …
Don Arney’s Bambi Bucket, a major contribution to aerial firefighting tech from the 1980s
Helicopters and other aircraft are often used to combat fires which cannot be controlled by personnel on the ground and the practice is a fairly expensive one. …
America innovates most when government stands behind a stable property rights regime
America innovates most when property rights are stable and government gets out of the way so risk takers can dream the impossible and then go accomplish those …
Placing limits on innovation may exclude great inventions before it’s known what has been excluded
Since U.S. patents are granted with exclusive right to exclude, the only way to realize values of inventions is licensing, suing for damages or both. This …
Content Delivery Networks: Dan Lewin and Tom Leighton solve the “World Wide Wait”
Content delivery networks (CDNs), distributed networks involving proxy servers and data centers to provide high availability of content, are becoming increasingly valuable as Internet users continue to …
Theftovation: Facebook ‘Likes’ Copying Ideas
The Wall Street Journal explains ithat the Silicon Valley culture has long regarded copying as a good thing and necessary for rapid growth, first to market, first …
Do You Know How to Protect What’s Yours?
In the wake of recent judicial and legislative developments, protecting “what’s yours” has become even more complex. Many businesses and intellectual property lawyers have appropriately favored …
