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In an interview with Managing Intellectual Property magazine last week, Toshimoto Mitomo, Executive Vice President for Intellectual Property for Sony America, discussed how he manages his company’s vast patent portfolio. Most interestingly, he talked about…
Earlier this month, TechCrunch reported that Lyft, the smartphone-based car-hailing startup, accused its former Chief Operating Officer of taking sensitive company information after he left to join competitor Uber. In the Lyft Uber lawsuit Lyft…
Even if your first thought as a startup or business owner is ‘What is intellectual property (IP)? Perhaps I should find out.” that is a start that might considerably improve the health of your venture…
A common and real concern for startups and small businesses is balancing the business realities of building a sustainable enterprise with the necessary but sometimes difficult costs of registering your intellectual property, specifically your trademark…
Patent assertion entities have been making waves in the last few years. Though these entities are referred to in a wide variety of ways (patent assertion entities, non-practicing entities, etc.) and the actual definition is…
Last month, Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla Motors, announced that the electric car company will be making Tesla patents available to other companies that want to use them. Specifically, he stated that “Tesla will…
On July 25th, 2013, IPEXCHANGE CEO Hidi Niioka will be presenting at Cyperport Entrepreneurship Centre’s Connect-Space event: Intellectual Property, Business Protection for Start-ups. Based on his
In February this year, Twitter announced that it would buy 900 patents from IBM. The Twitter IBM deal stemmed from a letter from IBM warning that Twitter was possibly in violation of three of IBM’s patents. The…
We are delighted to announce a new partnership with WIPO Green, the specialized platform promoting innovation and diffusion of green technologies. WIPO Green is administered by WIPO, the global forum for intellectual property services, policy,…
