Crowdfunding sites offer a popular and valuable funding alternative for early stage startups to gain speedy access to investment. One frequently overlooked factor is intellectual property, and this can leave some startups high and dry….
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…
Based in Japan, Neil McArdle has a PhD in physics and optoelectronics and ten years of research experience. He has worked for fifteen years as a patent, technical and scientific translator, specializing in research documents,…
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…
The U.S. patent system is at a cross-roads. Despite helping to make the U.S. one of the most innovative and economically robust countries in the world, the system has been coming under increasing criticism for…
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…
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