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A closer look at the PTAB’s new post-issuance review procedures – Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) – Maximising IP Value for Business

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A closer look at the PTAB’s new post-issuance review procedures – Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) – Maximising IP Value for Business: Once a patent has been issued, there are Big, BIG changes as to the review process. Here is the most comprehensive take on these changes you will find anywhere. It is rather readable. It is rather detailed. And it is a critical-to-know follow on to anyone involved in the patent pipeline. Now the question,…

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A single round (1 round) Delphi study. How can that be? – Scenario Plans (

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A single round (1 round) Delphi study. How can that be? – Scenario Plans (: Give a look at the two blogs related to Scenario plans and Delphi studies related to the 2007 research by Dr. Cheryl Lentz. Notice how Delphi-type research can be used for all kinds of studies. These are two blog posts. One on the actual Delphi research doing two things that make it a modified Delphi: 1 round, and quantitative. The…

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Busted, or not busted, our patent system

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One of the most revered, trusted and enduring of America’s industrial and technological advantages is our patent system.  Except that, it isn’t anymore.  Patents are included in the US Constitution, proof positive that the Foundering Fathers considered them critically important to the future of the country.  That was then, this is now and you’ll understand when you go to www.wired.com/2015/01/fixing-broken-patent-system.  It was written by Jay Walker,the founder of Priceline in the late 1990s. Here is an insightful…

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Chinese Hoverboard Booth Raided by US Marshals at CES – Patent enforcement

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Chinese Hoverboard Booth Raided by U.S. Marshals at CES | Watch the video – Yahoo Finance: Also, there’s a better story and another video on Bloomberg here. That’s very brazen. A Chinese knock-off shows up at a big gadget expo (Consumer Electronics expo) with samples of a single-wheel hoverboard that distinctly looks and functions like the Onewheel patented by Future Motion of California (inventor Kyle Doerksen). The Onewheel utility patent was already issued and this…

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Viagra/Cialis Patents soon to fall on hard times in a Generic World

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Viagra to go Generic in 2017.2017 is going to be a good year for cheap(er) sex. First off, Cialis will fall off of the patent cliff. In the same year, Teva has negotiated with Pfizer to introduce a  generic version of the little blue pill. So guys will no longer have to pay $10 per pill for a good (or better) time. Since the hard costs of Viagra are so low, a very optimistic guy…