If you encountered an alien from another world and wanted him to understand the concept of what a word is, chances are you would put words (and their object or idea...

Guest post by Marc Kaufman Determination of the quantitative value of patents has been elusive.  Complex statistical analysis and accounting methods have been applied to patents in an effort to ascribe...

Welcome to the IP Think Tank podcast for Thursday 4 November 2010. In this show Duncan is joined by Kim Chotkowski, Stan Abrams and Robert Cantrell to discuss: China innovation and...

It’s wrong to think that a patent can automatically stop your competitor from entering a market, or making a competitor product. Just wrong. Patents are hurdles, not walls. Each of them...

Thinking of a patent as a fortress to defend an invention could be setting yourself up to lose it. Patents as static defenses can be defeated, just as assuredly as kings...