Strategic planning

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…

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…

No PTA For Divisional Application | PharmaPatents: When does a 20 year patent turn out to be more than a 20 year patent… Patent Term Adjustments. Okay, so under certain situations, an extension can be requested to the 20 years that the US has for patent applications after 1995. The idea is that for such applications as pharma the long lead time in all approvals through the PTO and the FDA and more… can significantly…

Studio must consider fair use before taking down video, court rules – Fortune: This is a big win for those people who would like to use copyrighted materials in any way they want. Simply wind up your baby to copyrighted muzak and press <record>. Of course it probably does no great publicity to Prince to have law suits against babies at play with his music. The unanimous vote to allow the mom to use the…

The patent troll condition -as identified- is a relatively new phenomenon/hot spot in the IP world, perhaps one or two decades old.  To be sure, there were isolated cases of troll-like behavior as far back as the 1970s, but nothing like the scope, intensity and frequency of the past several years.  Today’s trolls not only find dormant patents also but buy up unused portfolios from companies not concerned with their IP or in need of…