Wipi_2014_patents. Percent of Patents Approved. U.S. Patent Statistics Summary Table, Calendar Years 1963 to 2014, 03/2015 update. Magazine - Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) - Maximising IP Value for Business. IPBiz. Www.ipadvocate.org/studies/townsend/TownsendCaseStudy.pdf. Www.evelexa.com/resources/EGBS4_Kolchinsky.pdf. The Lowballing of Kodak's Patent Portfolio. In January 2012, Kodak filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, having succumbed to a digital revolution in photography that it had helped to start.
But the company’s managers still hoped to escape from bankruptcy and have another shot at greatness by selling part of a portfolio of patents that experts valued as high as US $4.5 billion. Eleven months later, those roughly 1700 patents (together with 655 patent applications) sold for just $94 million—less than the licensing fees Kodak had collected in its worst-ever year in recent history. What’s more, the company licensed its remaining 20 000 patents to a dozen leading technology companies for only $433 million, severely restricting future earnings from them.
Without its anticipated multibillion-dollar payoff, the company was forced to hand over its iconic photographic film and paper businesses, as well as potentially lucrative new technologies like digital printing kiosks, to a spin-off owned by its U.K. pension fund. Patent Law Blogs and the ABA. I am pleased to announce that Patently-O was selected by the American Bar Association (ABA) Journal as their favorite IP Law blog for 2011.
PatLit: the patent litigation weblog. Patent Prospector: Litigation Archives. July 25, 2013 Model Order In assertion, patent holders sling whatever they can at whoever they can.
Par for the course of exploitative capitalism. But, as part of their war on patents (excepting those owned by large corporations), the CAFC issued a "model order" instructing trial courts to summarily dismiss seemingly redundant claims. Provisional application. Under United States patent law, a provisional application is a legal document filed in the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), that establishes an early filing date, but does not mature into an issued patent unless the applicant files a regular non-provisional patent application within one year.
There is no such thing as a "provisional patent".[1] The same term is used in past and current patent laws of other countries with different meanings. InventorsEye. The Provisional Patent Application: What You Need to Know A provisional patent application (PPA) is a patent application that can be used by a patent applicant to secure a filing date while avoiding the costs associated with the filing and prosecution of a non-provisional patent application.
The Patent King He has a staggering 558 patents, costing companies around the world some $1.5 billion in licensing fees. But what did Jerome Lemelson actually invent? - May 14, 2001. The Patent King He has a staggering 558 patents, costing companies around the world some $1.5 billion in licensing fees.
But what did Jerome Lemelson actually invent? (FORTUNE Magazine) – This past February, Jerome Lemelson passed an impressive milestone: The number of companies paying for licenses on his patents reached 750. The list includes an amazing array of corporations: old-economy stalwarts like Alcoa, Boeing, Dow Chemical, Eli Lilly, and GE; manufacturing behemoths like Ford, GM, and U.S. Steel; technology titans like IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and Cisco. The portfolio of products covered over the years by Lemelson's patents is equally staggering: They include components in such everyday consumer products as the Walkman, the VCR, the fax machine, and the camcorder.
So far, these licenses have reaped nearly $1.5 billion. Intellectual Property Archives - SiNApSE. Silver lining for Inventors and Small & Medium Enterprises Beginning with the inception of an idea through to the development, protection and commercialization of the idea, investments are needed at every step.
The huge costs involved in the conversion of an invention to a final product/process, that can be commercialized to yield benefits, appears to be an insurmountable hurdle for several inventors and small to medium scale organizations. The cost for protection of an invention is nearly equal to the cost for developing and solidifying the concept. The recent fee changes in filing, prosecution […] Patently-O, the nation's leading patent law blog. Turn Your Idea into an Invention with a Good Description. Previously I wrote Describing Your Invention Completely in a Patent Application, which focused on the type of information you want to include to capture the full glory of your invention.
This article is a follow-up to that, focusing this time on what the law requires and why, concluding with suggestions to help in breaking through the idea and getting to something more tangible. Reading these two articles in conjunction should give a more complete understanding of what is required and how to get from idea to patentable invention. I start this tale observing a central reality: Inventors are creative people who observe a problem and envision a solution.
Practically anyone can be an inventor because the first step on the path to inventing is the generation of an idea. Unfortunately, ideas cannot be patented and for many individuals the path to invention stops right there. There are, in fact, four primary patentability requirements. Azrights Intellectual Property, IT Lawyers and Solicitors.
Inventor who shocked tech world stumped by 43-year patent delay. Preserving Cabrini-Green's images In the sharp sun of an April afternoon, Nate Lanthrum walks through the remains of Cabrini-Green giving away what he has taken.
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Inventor who shocked tech world stumped by 43-year patent delay. Inventor who shocked tech world stumped by 43-year patent delay. Inventor who shocked tech world stumped by 43-year patent delay. An Overview of the U.S. Patent Process. The patent process actually starts well before you file a patent application or seek assistance from a patent attorney.
Every patent application starts with an invention, and every invention starts with an idea. Www.oceantomo.com/system/files/Ocean Tomo Article %28IP Strategy%29.pdf.