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Dan Buri
is an author and patent attorney whose works have been published in a variety of online and print sources for two decades. He is the author of two published books, including an Amazon #1 Bestselling collection of short fiction. Dan is the CEO and founding partner of Vitek IP, a patent consultancy, brokerage group, and IP software company. He has managed hundreds of patent transactions and consulted on patent valuation and analysis for the world’s largest telecommunications, software, and computer companies.
Recent Articles by
Patents Have Entered the Upside Down: Looking Back on the 2019 U.S. Patent Market
Ask ten professionals for their attitude on the current state of patents in 2019, and you’ll receive ten distinctly different opinions ranging anywhere from the incredibly negative patents-are-dying attitude to the overly optimistic everything-is-fine-here outlook. The consternation of it all is that each of those ten professionals would be absolutely right in their estimations, and entirely wrong as well. And that’s the patent world in which we’ve found ourselves during the entirety of 2019—everyone is wrong, and everyone is right, because no one actually knows which way is up anymore. We have officially entered the upside down.