Posts Tagged: commercialization
European Patent Office Study Shows Patents Matter for SMEs, Economic Growth
“IP matters for the European economy,” said Yann Ménière, the chief economist for the European Patent Office (EPO), who provided the opening keynote presentation at …
NASA Licenses Patent Portfolio to Achieve Widest Possible Distribution of Technology
NASA will enter into a range of different patent license agreements from no-cost evaluation licenses up to exclusive license. The agency’s goal in licensing technologies is …
Senate Commerce Committee Holds Hearing on Transportation of Tomorrow Including Unmanned Shipping and Hyperloop Tech
One difficulty holding back the further implementation of hyperloop infrastructure is the fact that the new mode of transportation doesn’t fit neatly into existing regulatory framework. …
Using Legal Finance to Unlock University IP Assets
Litigation finance in the university context is thus particularly valuable. Even for smaller matters, litigation finance shifts spend off the university’s balance sheet, allowing it to …
AUTM Licensing Survey: Ominous trend likely attributable to eroding patent rights
Concerns about the ability of academic institutions to keep contributing to the U.S. innovation economy go well beyond federal funding stagnation according to the recent AUTM …
Benefits of NASA Space Directive on Mars could be Limited by Uncertain Software, Biotech Patentability
President Donald Trump signed a new space policy directive for human expansion across the solar system, a directive which hearkens at least slightly back to Horace Greeley’…
How the U.S. Can Inspire the Next Generation of Innovators
An unfounded belief persists that entrepreneurs are the primary innovators. However, in a study of the top 30 innovations of the last 30 years up through 2009, as judged by …
Thinking about IP and collaboration at the Patent-Antitrust Interface
This different approach—a commercialization approach—has been embraced across the American political spectrum, including both the Carter administration and the Reagan administration,[4] as well as by …
Advice for the Trump Administration and New Congress: Protect Bayh-Dole and Restore the Patent System
Bayh-Dole is running on autopilot without Executive branch oversight and U.S. patents are no longer the world's gold standard. Without a course correction, we could be …
Patent Submission Policies: Is it time to reconsider commercialization communications?
The review of current corporate patent submission policies reveals clear inconsistencies. While some technology firms have standards that result in clear paths for third party inventors to …
Pence, Conservative Views on Patents Likely to Influence Trump
Congressman Pence worked mostly on patent reform bills via the Republican Study Committee, a well-known group of House Republicans focused on inserting conservative views into public policy …
Canada’s Promise Doctrine Should Be a Warning to America
A recent Canadian survey (CRA Survey) has conclusively attributed lowered levels of R&D investment in Canada’s innovation ecosystem to the country’s unique judicial “Promise …
A Better Mouse Trap: Patents and the Road to Riches
There are many different reasons why building a better mouse-trap is only the first of many steps on the road to financial freedom. First, there is no …
