Patent Licensing in Universities – Extracting value from research investments
Universities in the US encourage researchers with innovative minds to pursue their inventions and invest into patenting promising inventions expecting to generate profits by licensing the developed technology to interested companies. The technology transfer offices of the universities usually get many invention ideas from their researchers and have to decide which ones to invest further time and resources […]
IP Intelligence for Patent Licensing & Enforcement Activity
Most companies hold on to their patents as a defensive means to protect themselves from competition gaining an upper hand from their innovations and development efforts. Their ability to drive maximum revenues for the business comes from their ability to have exclusive access to their innovation and fend off the competition for a stipulated time […]
Citations In Patent Data And Why They Need Your Attention
A friend of mine who is an avid blogger shared an interesting story of how he landed himself in a tight situation just last week. He received an email over the weekend from the owner of a copyrighted image he used on his blog without his permission and was now threatened with being sued and […]
Collating Financial Data for Patent licensing research – Nice to have but not too useful for the most part
Many experienced researchers I have met say that there is no substitute for technical analysis and the insights received from analysis of the patent data itself. Financial information such as profitability, revenues and market cap of assignees may be required for undertaking industry analysis, however do you really need such data for corporate licensing research? […]
Patent in the Gaming Industry
Gaming is perhaps one of the fine examples of how boundaries blur between developing end customer value and protecting IP. Let’s say your software company developed a radical new rendering engine that can allow pixel perfect resolution and provide a gamer the ability to ‘simulate’ Hi Definition video. However, what you manged to do was […]