Strategic planning

Business method patent issuance has plummeted since Alice | Managing Intellectual Property: Trends in Business method patents has seriously dropped since the Supreme Court ruled on the Alice v CLS Bank case in June. The court ruled that an abstract idea is not necessarily a business method and saying that it will be done on computers (network/cloud) doesn’t assure it to be a valid claim either. This ruling knocks back business method (and software patents). So the…

Here is an article from the Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI)    June 5 is World Anti-Counterfeiting Day   (http://www.ipi.org/policy_blog/detail/june-5-is-world-anti-counterfeiting-day)  It is a scary message counterfeiting of medications.  Note the opening sentence abut the deaths in 2012 from a false medication for malaria treatment.  Then, note that in some parts of the world about 1/3 of all medications are counterfeit.! As the author indicates, there seems to be no limit to what can be counterfeited from…

Intellectual Asset Management magazine (http://www.iam-magazine.com/Intelligence/IP-Monetisation-Yearbook/2013) publishes a set of reports each year.  One is the “IP Monetization Yearbook.”  The 2014 issue has 11 articles- one of which is Monetization of Royalties and Revenue Streams.  As the techniques for monetization of the enterprise’s asset leader, IP, mature, the ways in which to monetize it should evolve to keep pace.  Here, the subject is the multiple ways in which to monetize royalties and other revenue sources from…

Automation Makes Us Dumb – WSJ: So, it would seem, the sequel to being yet more dumber, is Dumber to.,, In this article (and associated books, it appears) Nicolas Carr offers up the argument (and some evidence) that computers and automation are making us dumber. One example is that pilots can lose their edge for flight if they let the auto-pilot (no, not Airplane 1,2, 2.5, 33 1/3) do virtually all of the driving. It…

Intellectual Ventures: Patent Troll Funds Startups, New Products – Businessweek: The worlds largest patent troll, apparently, has decided to go legit. Kinda. This company, aptly abbreviated IV as in a vampire draining blood, is the largest holder of patents with some 70,000. More than IBM with more than 20 years as the world’s largest patenting company, by far. With such a war chest of patents, it is hard for anyone to make anything that doesn’t…

This article from the Institute for Policy Innovationhttp://www.ipi.org/ipi_issues/detail/what-software-patents-have-wrought-a-lottery-ticket-to-a-lawsuit comments on yet another issue in the turmoil of today’s IP landscape- one that resembles a war zone.  Because software has become such a vital part of today’s tech and semi-tech products and services, it makes sense to provide some real protection for the originators if the invention is unprecedented and provides value.  The flood of software patents has opened Pandora’s box however and the box is…