Posts Tagged: incentivizing innovation
Follow the Money: Is the U.S. patent system fostering investment and risk taking?
PTAB proceedings have radically changed the time to money for patent owners asserting U.S. patents against infringers. Additionally, the value of U.S. patents has dropped …
Creating an Ecosystem that Encourages Disruptive Innovation
Assuming America wants paradigm-shifting, truly disruptive innovation we need to recognize the need to incentivize the risk-takers and those that provide the capital to those risk-takers who …
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, …
The Impacts of the Pending Rule 11 Amendments on the Patent System
The effects of proposed Rule 11 on the patent system will be like putting an additional bullet to a dying man. As far as patent litigation is concerned, …
The PTAB’s dramatic effect on patent value and corresponding disincentives to capital allocation
Whether one celebrates or decries the PTAB, there can be little doubt that it has worked a profound effect on the value of American patents—and, concomitantly, …
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 …
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 …
America’s largest tech firms acknowledge plenty of issues with the current U.S. patent system
Typically, the reform debate over the U.S. patent system features smaller players, but America’s largest tech firms also have issues with the patent system, which …
Does innovation lead to patents, or patents lead to innovation?
We pick up our conversation with me suggesting that there is a problem with claims being found to be abstract when the decision maker has been able …
Governments’ Thumb on the Scales
These government agencies target successful, inventive U.S. firms. They politicize their processes and disregard the exclusivity that rightfully belongs to patent owners. They take away private …
Silent Spring for Patents
Individual inventors, not just corporations, should be able to benefit from the fruits of the inventive mind. The limited private right of a patent is a necessary …
A Weak Patent System Increases Inequality, Protects Incumbent Monopolies
The consequences of a weakened patent system are increased inequality, a higher competitive bar for market entrants, protection of incumbent monopoly profits, decreased competition, disincentive to invest …
EIPIN Innovation Society opens research center to promote innovation, IP in Europe
Near the end of 2016, a new multidisciplinary research center was forming in Europe under the title European IP Institutes Network (EIPIN) Innovation Society. The organization seeks to …
How Can Corporate Policies Best Encourage Innovation?
in hyper growth startups and other companies that rely on knowledge workers, the agenda for these value makers must remain as clear as possible. However, sometimes intellectual …
