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Archive - March 2012
Apple reveals where its spare $98 billion will go, and it’s not on patents
Apple has revealed what it is planning to do with its nearly $100 billion pile of cash. In a conference call yesterday, CEO Tim Cook announced that starting in July, Apple will pay a quarterly dividend of $2.65 a share, and there will also be a $10 billion share buyback. Altogether, the company will be spending around $45 billion, so it will still be left with a considerable bank balance. While a dividend payout had been widely anticipated, there was also speculation that ...
Posted by Helen Sloan, IAM Magazine on 20 March 2012 @ 11:51AM
Motorola's Round Rock suit shows why Micron sold its patents to the NPE
Motorola Solutions (MSI) filed suit for declaratory judgment against Round Rock Research in the Federal District of Delaware last week. Reading the complaint, we learn that the NPE had hit several MSI customers with patent infringement suits during 2011. Round Rock claims that some companies which are supplied radio frequency identification (RFID) technology by MSI are infringing a number of RFID-related patents in a portfolio that primarily comprises rights that it obtained from ...
Posted by Jack Ellis, IAM Magazine on 19 March 2012 @ 5:49PM
Singapore's foreign patent attorney plans could be a very attractive proposition
Several major centres in Asia are currently looking to develop themselves as IP hubs. One of the places that has been focused on this for a while is Singapore, which has invested a good deal of time and money into its efforts. The city-state has created the pioneering IP Academy, while it is also one of the few countries in which you can hear government ministers talk in an informed and detailed way about the benefits that a strategic approach to IP creation, management and ...
Posted by Joff Wild, IAM Magazine on 18 March 2012 @ 2:23PM
If you monetise your IP HP, why shouldn't others do the same with theirs?
Paul Roeder, head of IP litigation at Hewlett Packard, has found himself under attack recently: by Bernard Cassidy of Tessera Technologies on the IP Watchdog website; and, yesterday, by Peter Detkin, co-founder and vice-chairman of Intellectual Ventures, via IP 360 (subscribers only) and also IV’s website. Neither Cassidy nor Detkin have held back in their strong rebuttals of pieces that Roeder himself had written for IP Watchdog and IP 360 (subscribers only) in which he ...
Posted by Joff Wild, IAM Magazine on 16 March 2012 @ 6:12PM
Could fury at Yahoo!’s alleged deception lead to patent decline?
Earlier this week, Yahoo! filed a lawsuit in California against Facebook, alleging infringement of 10 of its patents. This action was not unexpected, as Yahoo! had already warned that it was considering such a move. Nevertheless, it has cranked up the negative headlines for the beleaguered internet pioneer. To add to Yahoo!’s woes, the company has now come under attack from a former employee who was actually responsible for some of its considerable patent armoury. Andy Baio ...
Posted by Helen Sloan, IAM Magazine on 15 March 2012 @ 3:52PM
Another stick presents itself to those who want to beat up the US patent system
Terry Ludlow of Chipworks has done some number crunching and found that that there were more patent litigation suits filed in 2011 in the US than in any other year. Ludlow puts it at just over 4,000, which was up significantly on 2010 – even though that year, too, was a big one, thanks in no small part to a spike in false marking cases. Both Ludlow and the PatentlyO blog very reasonably point out that while the headline figure is a big one, it is probably not such a big deal.
Posted by Joff Wild, IAM Magazine on 15 March 2012 @ 11:30AM
IAM moves into Asia with the opening of an office in Hong Kong
After nine years of being a London-based publication, IAM is going international with the opening of an office in Hong Kong. It’s something that we have been working on for a while now and it’s great to be able to announce it officially. Dan Cole, who was previously the group publisher of Managing Intellectual Property, will be running the business side of things, along with Bryce Leung, who we have also recruited from MIP, where he was Asia manager. Both are long-time ...
Posted by Joff Wild, IAM Magazine on 14 March 2012 @ 1:47PM
Final chance to take part in this year's patent benchmarking survey
The IAM/Thomson Reuters annual patent benchmarking survey closes at midnight tomorrow (Wednesday, 14th March). It is still not too late for you to take part and join over 500 senior IP professionals who have so far participated. The survey covers a wide range of cutting-edge issues, from patent prosecution and litigation, through to licensing and other forms of commercialisation. Its aim is to gain an insight into the priorities, challenges and needs of IP professionals working ...
Posted by Joff Wild, IAM Magazine on 13 March 2012 @ 7:28PM
Europe needs new IP asset and financial markets, Commission report states
Europe risks losing its most valuable innovations to entities in the US and Asia, a recently published study has concluded. Creating a Financial Market for IPR, produced for the European Commission by a team at the University of St Gallen and the Fraunhofer Moez, states that without a unified patent system and better mechanisms for cross-border technology transfer and IP trading, European companies and universities will remain “an easy target for foreign patent ...
Posted by Joff Wild, IAM Magazine on 13 March 2012 @ 4:49PM
Bayer loses out as India issues its first compulsory licence
The Indian Patent Office has today decreed that Bayer must license the right to produce its patented anti-cancer treatment Nexavar to generic company Natco. This is the first compulsory licence issued in India since the country signed up to TRIPs. In a decision that runs to 62 pages, the Controller General of Patents and Trademarks has set the royalty rate that Natco must pay at 6% of net sales, and states that the company may not charge more than 8,800 rupees ($176) for a month's ...
Posted by Joff Wild, IAM Magazine on 12 March 2012 @ 2:31PM
