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Could co-operation help pull pharma back from the cliff edge?
AstraZeneca has announced that it is to shed over 7,000 jobs worldwide; this is in addition to over 20,000 jobs that it has already cut since 2007. And the UK-based company is not expecting a reversal in fortunes any time soon. According to an official statement the outlook is gloomy: “Revenue in 2012 will continue to be adversely affected by government interventions on pricing, and ongoing generic competition, including the anticipated loss of market exclusivity for Seroquel IR ...
Posted by Helen Sloan, Globe Business Publishing Ltd on 03 February 2012 @ 9:44AM
When it comes to the Facebook IPO it's all about intangibles and IAs
There will be an awful lot written about the Facebook IPO over the coming weeks and months by people a lot more qualified than me to be making comments. However, it would be wrong not to point out one very obvious aspect of the planned float: the extent to which the success of the Facebook business is dependent on its ability to leverage intangible and intellectual assets. Looking through the company's S1 filing that was made yesterday, what shines through is the importance of ...
Posted by Joff Wild, IAM Magazine on 02 February 2012 @ 2:04PM
From smartphone wars through Chinese culture to hiring top IP talent - IAM 52 is now out
The latest issue of IAM is now available to subscribers online. Our cover story, written Australian patent attorney Mark Summerfield, who is also the author of the Patentology blog, takes a detailed look at the smartphone patent wars. With cases being fought around the world and different companies employing different strategies as they seek to gain the upper hand, Mark explores how things have got to where they are and what may happen next, as well as explaining why Steve Jobs’ ...
Posted by Joff Wild, IAM Magazine on 02 February 2012 @ 1:19PM
The top blog stories for January 2012
During January, the IAM blog had 21,732 unique users. They made 81,979 visits. In descending order, the stories they read most were: 05-Jan-12 The IP personalities of 2011 13-Jan-12 Acacia acquisition marks the start of a new and more ambitious stage for... 22-Jan-12 Acacia lands Microsoft and Samsung as licensees following ADAPTIX purchase 16-Jan-12 Nokia again shows that working with NPEs is just another option for... 17-Jan-12 If we have reached an IP tipping point, then ...
Posted by Joff Wild, IAM Magazine on 02 February 2012 @ 11:44AM
The NPE reality is very different to the media myth
Yesterday this blog discussed a paper produced by Tom Ewing and Robin Feldman for the Stanford Technology Law Review entitled "The Giants Among Us". It is, we stated, a serious piece of work looking at the alleged effect that a certain kind of NPE - the so-called mass patent aggregator - is having on the US patent marketplace. The paper is a temprate and important contribution to the debate about NPEs in the US. While people might not agree with the paper's ...
Posted by Joff Wild, IAM Magazine on 31 January 2012 @ 12:26PM
The case against mass patent aggregation
Tom Ewing is a regular contributor to IAM magazine and this blog. His areas of speciality are NPEs, Intellectual Ventures in particular, and the privateer model of assertion, through which IP owners (both NPEs and operating companies) use third parties to manage/enforce patents on their behalf. Ewing has got together with Robin Feldman, Professor of Law & Director of LAB Project, UC Hastings Law, to pen a paper for the Stanford Technology Law Review. And The Giants Among Us ...
Posted by Joff Wild, IAM Magazine on 30 January 2012 @ 3:52PM
Google treading the warpath as it puts Motorola purchase to the test
Motorola Mobility has filed suit in the Southern District of Florida this week against Apple, accusing the company of infringing six of its patents in the iPhone 4S and iCloud products. Moto has been embroiled in various suits with Apple, but this is the first since Google’s proposed $12.5 billion acquisition of the company was announced last summer. While that purchase still awaits the seal of approval from US antitrust watchdogs, the takeover agreement reached between the ...
Posted by Jack Ellis, IAM Magazine on 27 January 2012 @ 4:22PM
US politicians will not risk electoral unpopularity over IP
The derailment of the SOPA and PIPA bills in the US Congress last week has been disappointing news for copyright holders in the media and entertainment businesses that the laws were intended to protect. The proposed legislation has not been killed off entirely, but what may concern all IP owners – even those opposed to SOPA and PIPA - is the way that the controversy has revealed how quickly US politicians will change their minds when faced with an apparently unpopular ...
Posted by Helen Sloan, Globe Business Publishing Ltd on 27 January 2012 @ 12:43PM
New pan-European patent system is likely to be delayed "for at least a few more months"
A final agreement on the creation of a unitary patent litigation system that would cover at least 25 of the 27 EU member states is set to be delayed by months, according to a report in yesterday’s Financial Times. The cause of the hold-up is the dispute between France, Germany and the UK over where the central court should be located. In the proposals which were expected to be signed-off at a meeting of the EU Competiveness Council in December, Paris was named as the venue, but ...
Posted by Joff Wild, IAM Magazine on 26 January 2012 @ 1:23PM
InterDigital did the right thing and the future still looks bright
InterDigital’s share price dropped sharply yesterday after the company announced that it was ending its attempts to find a buyer for its patents and would return to licensing as its key IP revenue generation strategy. Some have characterised this news as yet more evidence of the bursting of the patent bubble. The important message from the story, however, is that we still have some way to go before increased interest in IP is paired with widespread, sophisticated understanding ...
Posted by Jack Ellis, IAM Magazine on 24 January 2012 @ 5:00PM
