Posts Tagged: wall street journal
Chertoff Op-Ed on FTC v. Qualcomm Misrepresents the National Security Threat
On November 25, former Director of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff wrote an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal that chastised the Department of Energy for filing an …
The ‘Dragon’ Targets U.S. Biopharma Lead
Perhaps the report on China's strategy for eclipsing the U.S. lead in biopharma from the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF) resonated so strongly with me because …
Judge Koh Delivers Qualcomm Brutal Defeat Despite Apple’s Proven Manipulation
In a 233-page Order issued yesterday, Judge Lucy Koh of the United States Federal District Court for the Northern District of California handed Qualcomm a stinging defeat …
Qualcomm Survives Apple Manipulation, But FTC Continues Reckless Pursuit
Now that Apple and Qualcomm have made peace it would be easy to allow the case and the issues to recede into the background. That is likely …
As Google’s Ad Revenue Slows, Alphabet May Soon Regret Its Anti-Patent Strategy
This morning’s edition of the Wall Street Journal carried a front-page article describing how the once mighty and untouchable online-advertising operation at Google has begun to …
Theftovation: Facebook ‘Likes’ Copying Ideas
The Wall Street Journal explains ithat the Silicon Valley culture has long regarded copying as a good thing and necessary for rapid growth, first to market, first …
The UN has Better Things to do Than Destroy Innovation
The UN Panel unfortunately squandered its 9-month gestation period. It stuffed into one repository every long-discarded remnant of anti-patent and pro-price-control schemes buried in IP’s historic …
Patent reformers resort to misrepresentations in WSJ op-ed
It should be self-evident that not all patent owners are patent trolls, and when you acquire rights it is not an economic cost, yet these absurd propositions …
Setting the Record Straight: Patent Trolls vs. Progress
Mr. Kessler believes that Mr. Madison did not understand what he was doing or, at best, did not foresee the expense that patent litigation would involve in …
Shooting Ourselves in the Foot
Contrary to the tone of the Jobs Council report, U.S. academic technology commercialization made possible by Bayh-Dole is a world- wide recognized success. The law allowed …
Beware of Third Party Facebook Application Security Risks
You've seen it all over the place... Privacy Concerns, Security Issues, Identity Stolen, Dangers of Social Networking, Social Media Threats, Personal Information Sold. All too often Facebook …
News, Notes & Announcements
In this edition of News, Notes & Announcements, the mother of all patent trolls, Acacia Research Corporation, scores two more licensing agreements, one with IBM the other with …
Wall Street Journal Profiles Medical Marijuana, but not Important USPTO Issues
Earlier today the Wall Street Journal gave front page space to a story relating to the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Widely regarded as one of …
JCVI Creates World’s First Genetically Engineered Self-Replicating Synthetic Bacterial
You just couldn't make this stuff up. A team of humans creates genetically altered and a self-replicating synthetic cell using a computer. I suspect that computer was …
Patent Reform: Obama Favors Major Changes to Patent Law
There has been something brewing for at least a couple weeks now on the patent reform agenda, and I have been trying to make sense of it …
