If one of your trade secrets is stolen, are you prepared to promptly respond? In particular, are you prepared to promptly (1) investigate the theft, (2) attempt to prevent the loss of the trade secret (through, e.g., unauthorized public disclosure), (3) attempt to mitigate or avoid other harm to your operations and (4) pursue appropriate […]
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Take 5 On Patents: August Report
Today we released the new Take 5: On Patents report featuring an overview of patent issuance activity within the United States Patent & Trademark Office in August including: Top 5 Utility Patents Issued (#1 Digimarc Corp. ‘108 Patent) Top 5 Patenting Entities (Samsung Electronics ‘056 Patent) Top 5 First Named Inventors (#1 again, Semiconductor Energy […]
Thoughts on the Microsoft and Nokia Transaction
Some in and around the IP community have criticized the Microsoft (MSFT)/Nokia (NOK) transaction as anticompetitive. For example, David Balto, a former policy director of the Federal Trade Commission, wrote in the Huffington Post, “When competitors form a truce, consumers need to worry because often they find ways to make consumers pay more by cutting […]
Recent Trade Secret Symposium Confirmed That Trade Secrets Are The New Black And That Trade Secret Owners Now (Finally) Know It
Trade secret misappropriators — including cyber-thieves — have been ahead of the curve. For quite some time, they have appreciated just how valuable companies’ trade secrets are. Indeed, that is why they have been aggressively stealing those assets. Trade secret owners are finally catching up and catching on, in terms of measures to protect their […]
Trade Secret Owners, Beware: For An NDA Notice Provision, A Follow-Up Should Be A Layup
Parties contemplating a transaction involving trade secrets often enter into a confidentiality or non-disclosure agreement (NDA) in order to facilitate, if not allow, meaningful dialogue. All of the parties to an NDA shoulder important obligations. Indeed, as a recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit shows, a trade secret owner’s […]
Ocean Tomo Partners with TechNexus
Ocean Tomo has entered into a formal collaboration partnership with TechNexus, Chicago’s venture collaborative, for accelerated development of propriety products and services supported by corporate partnership. The focus of this collaboration will be to utilize Ocean Tomo’s strategic processes and patent driven research to determine the field of opportunity — areas where there is freedom […]
James E. Malackowski, Ocean Tomo CEO, Weighing in on Obama Administrations Veto of International Trade Commission Import Ban
Ocean Tomo CEO Jim Malackowski appeared this afternoon on CNBC Street Signs with Brian Sullivan and Mandy Drury to comment on the Obama Administration veto of a proposed ban on the import of patented smart phones. Commenting on the first veto of an International Trade Commission (ITC) ruling in more than 25 years, Jim explored […]
Michigan Innovation Index
Prepared exclusively for Crain’s Detroit Business by Ocean Tomo, the Michigan Innovation Index recognizes those companies that are transforming the state’s innovation landscape. The full article and complete list of 2012 featured companies is available here. The study, which ranks the top 100 companies with three or more patents issued in 2012 based on their […]