Wealth of Ideas Newsletter, July 2010

Over the last two decades, General Patent Corporation has had an informal network of people, businesses and other organizations that have referred business to us. Patent practitioners, inventors, IP litigators, licensing executives, business owners, technology transfer managers and others who know what we do have referred patent owners to General Patent.

Wealth of Ideas Newsletter, June 2010

At the eleventh hour – and after almost eight months of deliberations – the U.S. Supreme Court delivered its anxiously-awaited decision in the case of Bilski v. Kappos.

Wealth of Ideas Newsletter, May 2010

Remember the landmark ruling last August in the landmark i4i v. Microsoft case? An Eastern District of Texas jury slapped the software giant with a $290 million damages award and an injunction on sales of the version of Microsoft Word 2007 that contained the infringing feature.

Wealth of Ideas Newsletter, April 2010

Last month, we told you about how General Patent Corporation examines each infringement claim to determine its merit, and chooses and manages the right law firm for each case.

Wealth of Ideas Newsletter, March 2010

This month and next, we offer a two-part series about the unique and comprehensive package of services that not only enforces your patent, it may also strengthen it in the process – and all at no upfront cost to the patent owner!

Since General Patent is not a law firm, we engage a law firm to litigate each patent infringement lawsuit we undertake on behalf of a patent owner. However, successful patent enforcement is more than simply engaging a law firm and filing a lawsuit.

Wealth of Ideas Newsletter, February 2010

In these tough economic times, business owners must learn to do more with less, stretching the resources they have to meet their needs while they try to grow their businesses. Truly effective managers find more efficient ways to manage cash, receivables, inventory and other assets.

Wealth of Ideas Newsletter, January 2010

By Alexander Poltorak

(An earlier version of this essay was published in Making Innovation Pay - Turning IP into Shareholder Value, ed. B. Berman, John Wiley & Sons Publishers, Inc., 2006.)

Wealth of Ideas Newsletter, December 2009

UPSTO Director David Kappos first announced a new program in his opening remarks at the Intellectual Property Owners (IPO) annual meeting this past September, then discussed the initiative further last month at the Independent Inventors Conference, held at the USPTO’s headquarters in Arlington, Virginia.

Wealth of Ideas Newsletter, November 2009

By the time oral arguments began November 9 before the US Supreme Court in the Bernard L. Bilski v. David J. Kappos case, more than 70 separate industry and policy groups had filed amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) briefs, seeking to bring various issues to the Court’s attention.

Wealth of Ideas Newsletter, October 2009

By David Wanetick

As I often tell business leaders who attend my course on Valuing Early-Stage Technologies, valuing patents isn’t rocket science. It is much more difficult. Or to paraphrase Winston Churchill, valuing patents is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.