From increased public reporting requirements, to changing accounting methods for damages calculation, the intellectual property (IP) market seems to have reached a significant, albeit belated, tipping point in its development. This week’s segment of the “Evolving IP Market” highlights several of the most noteworthy breakthroughs experienced by the industry, focusing specifically on the “changing numbers” […]
Tipping Point for IP, attests IPBC Conference in Portugal
A very exciting IP global meeting just finished in Portugal, with approximately 500 IP professionals and companies from around the world, and many of the leading figures from the largest IP deals in recent past, USPTO, EPO, academics, politicians and others. IAM did a fantastic job with speakers, logistics, details, as everyone has come to […]
Patent Quality in Chicago – Companies with the Highest Quality Patents Issued in 2011
My team recently completed an analysis of Chicago’s most innovative companies in 2011 for Crain’s. It was non-trivial to tease out exactly which companies should be considered – those with Chicago headquarters, even if innovation was somewhere else, those with headquarters elsewhere but innovation in Chicago, small, big, etc. Once we had the list, we […]
Intellectual Property Strategy Comes Alive Over Breakfast in Chicago!
I just finished the last of four exciting breakfast discussions on Intellectual Property Strategy – Houston, Denver, St. Louis and the finale of this round in Chicago. The purpose of the meetings was to share best practices, talk openly among intellectual property owners, attorneys, professionals and service providers, and set the agenda for the next […]
Did Google buy Motorola Mobility Primarily for its Patents?
Google (GOOG) agreed to acquire Motorola Mobility (MMI) for $12.5 billion this last summer. Many analysts are puzzled as to why GOOG offered so much, for a business whose sales are a far distance behind Apple and profit margins well below its own. MMI issued a new warning that its smartphone sales are slightly up […]
Collaborative Innovation at NASA LAUNCH: Energy Forum
Top ten innovators from around the world presented their best shot at solving the toughest global sustainability challenges, focused on “energy”. Over a course of several days, the innovators, together with NASA, USAID, Department of State, NIKE and the Launch Council engaged in an effort to turn these projects into commercial realities. Real life stories […]
Elvir Causevic Reporting from the LAUNCH Energy Forum
This week I am participating in the LAUNCH: Energy Forum –wish you were here! It’s nothing short of luck to get to participate in this endeavor. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) along with fellow founding partners NASA, the U.S. Department of State, and NIKE, Inc. selected ten innovators to participate in their LAUNCH: […]
Strategy of Being Lucky vs. Strategy is Everything
This week I had a unique front-to-end business experience within a span of 24 hours. Tuesday evening I attended the Founders Showcase event in San Francisco, which highlighted the most exciting startups in the earliest stages of starting up, together with several hundred Silicon Valley and Bay Area entrepreneurs, VCs, lawyers, etc. On Wednesday I […]