Posts Tagged: small business
IP and Innovation on Capitol Hill: Week of March 25
This week on Capitol Hill, the House IP Subcommittee convenes its first hearing of the 116th Congress to discuss a recent report from the U.S. Patent …
House Small Business Committee Holds Hearing on IP in Digital Economy With a Mostly Anti-Patent Panel
On the morning of Wednesday, July 11th, the House Small Business Committee held a hearing titled Innovation Nation: How Small Businesses in the Digital Technology Industry Use …
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’…
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 …
A false patent reform narrative – The Innovation Act is not about small businesses
you continually hear from Members of Congress, Staffers and those giant companies pushing for weaker patents that the goal of the bill is nothing more than to …
IP Protection is Key to U.S. Job Creation
While all job creation is valuable to continued economic growth and development, high-skilled, well-paying jobs are the most impactful for sustained economic progress. Evidence suggests that intellectual …
Carly Fiorina says Innovation Act only benefits large corporations, not innovators
Carly Fiorina: '[W]atch carefully who is supporting that [the Innovation Act]. It’s not the small it’s the big. It’s the big companies …
Why ‘Patent Reform’ Harms Innovative Small Businesses
For small business, patents will become mostly unenforceable due to the proposed much higher upfront cost of litigation, thus making small business patents significantly less valuable. Loss …
Engaging Small Business Customers from the Start
Making a startup into a successful small business venture requires more than an entrepreneurial heart and willpower. It takes a loyal base comprised of engaged, connected customers …
Startups Entrepreneurship: One Simple Idea is all it Takes
We pick up our conversation with where many inventors stumble as they attempt to move from idea person to small business person. We also discuss lessons learned …
The Good Steward – Turning Federal R&D into Economic Growth
By SENATOR BIRCH BAYH --- What should we say about a steward that manages billions of dollars in public research funds not aimed at finding commercial products …
5 Bad Habits Small Businesses Have With Social Media
No matter where we go these days, social media surrounds us. It seems everyone is saying, “Follow us on Twitter.” “Like us on Facebook.” “For More Information …
5 Simple Ways to Leverage Your Online Business Relationships
Social Media is not a fad. It is not something that is going to go away nor is it going to be replaced by something bigger and …
Reducing the Cost of Maintaining International Patent Rights
It is with great interest that we at Sentry IP read the report the United States Patent and Trademark Office made to Congress earlier this year on “…
Patent Advantage: Laying the Groundwork for International Rights
Indeed, competing globally is a prerequisite to success for most companies in what is an ever increasingly global marketplace. To compete globally American firms engage in licensing, …
