Posts Tagged: investors
Fundamental incongruities of PTAB operations affect the integrity of the patent system
For more than two centuries, the U.S. Constitution, black letter law and precedent construed a patent as a property right. This is important because it is …
Taking stock of the health of the American patent system, a system in crisis
“In our time together today we are going to try and take stock of the health of the American patent system,” Michel began. “It is important to …
Dictators, Property Rights and the PTAB: Why the AIA Must be Repealed
Now that Trump has won, the discussion has narrowed to whether Trump will keep patents weak or make patents great again. From the outside perspective, it is …
Patents used to be a property right, now a patent is a liability
Stifling innovation and curtailing investments are the effects of the AIA from what I see and hear. This is infuriating! It is disincentivizing inventors, innovators and investors! …
Valuing Intellectual Property in an AIA World
Patent investors are no different than investors in any other asset class. They abhor uncertainty and charge a stiff premium for risk. In the wake of the …
Patent Financing: An alternative path to protection for startups
RUSS KRAJEC: The startup company has an exclusive license, so they have full control of the asset, and they have a buyout option that can be exercised …
Musk fanboys at Barron’s take dim view of patents at their own readers’ expense
A recent Barron's editorial, however, has raised some eyebrows among those who are familiar with the effect of proper patent enforcement on financial fortunes. Published May 14th, “…
A patent conversation with Mark Cuban
CUBAN: I have invested in more than 150 companies and never has having or not having a patent impacted the final decision. Small businesses can and do become …
How the U.S. is Killing Innovation and why it Matters for Entrepreneurs
The engine that made America a greatest economic power was a patent system that led to tremendous innovation by incentivizing entrepreneurial …
A toxic concoction of myth, media and money is killing the patent system
In the past decade, the patent system has been turned on its head. Inventors are now villainized as cartoon characters called patent trolls simply because they assert …
What ‘The Economist’ Doesn’t Get About Patents
In what can only be characterized as a bizarre, rambling, and intellectually dishonest article, 'The Economist' has inexplicably taken the position that patents are not necessary for …
Innovation Requires Imagination, Vision and Risk Taking
Building a strong patent portfolio that meaningfully protects the innovation in question and continues to push outward into adjacent spaces, as important as it is, will only …
A Short History Lesson on Patent Policy
Starting before World War II and continuing throughout the 1950s, 60s and 70s, short sighted and now discredited government antitrust policies, coupled with judicial hostility toward patent …
What if we don’t have sufficient intellectual property rights?
Fundamentally, patents facilitate access to VC financing, market entry and job creation. Without patents and an effective IP environment, the process stalls and, in some cases, firms …
To patent or not to patent? The market reality for software patents
If you have any software patent that is essentially a software version of a human practice — something that was done in human practice — and you decide to …
