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Rambus shows why loose use of terminology in the NPE/troll debate is so dishonest
Yesterday Rambus announced that it had reached an agreement with STMicroelectronics that brings an end to long-standing patent litigation between the two. This dates back to 2010 when the semiconductor company was among those targeted by Rambus in an assertion campaign relating to the so-called Barth patents. In July 2012 the ITC ruled that neither STMicro nor LSI had infringed the patents; this followed a ruling by the USPTO earlier in the year that several of them were, in fact, ...
Posted by Joff Wild, IAM Magazine on 18 June 2013 @ 8:14AM
Deals are important, but they are not the principal drivers of IP value
We are all back from Boston now after last week’s IP Business Congress (see reports here, here and here) and we are now going through the feedback we have had from delegates. Overall, it looks as if most of the 600-plus who attended found the event very worthwhile, both in terms of content and networking opportunities. There are criticisms and nits too, just as there always are, and we will look at these carefully so that we can make next year in Amsterdam even better; but, in ...
Posted by Joff Wild, IAM Magazine on 17 June 2013 @ 6:31PM
Tie-up between Mumbai investors and IP advisory group shows India the way to go
Mumbai Angels, an Indian angel investment group, recently announced a tie-up with Inolyst, the IP advisory, licensing and monetising services business. The aim of the partnership is to help Indian start-ups become organisations that are capital-efficient, strategic about IP and have the potential to generate solid returns. This blog has previously reported on the deficit of skilled IP intermediaries in China, but it is also an issue that India will need to deal with over the coming ...
Posted by Seher Hussain, IAM Magazine on 17 June 2013 @ 8:22AM
English-speaking countries among best for EPO quality; Germany and Japan lag, says OECD study
The OECD has produced a new working paper that seeks to shed more light on the thorny subject of patent quality. Measuring Patent Quality: Indicators of Technological and Economic Value identifies a number of ways in which the quality of patents can be measured and explores each of them, as well as providing rankings per economy (country) and industry sector. However, this is not a comparison of patents granted by different patent offices. Instead, it looks at the quality of patents ...
Posted by Joff Wild, IAM Magazine on 15 June 2013 @ 1:47PM
Litigators in England well-placed to become the NPE go-to guys under new EU patent regime
Experts suggested that patent litigators based in England could be the counsel of choice for many Unified Patent Court (UPC) plaintiffs at a debate on litigation finance held in London last week. Panellists at the discussion, held at the offices of litigation finance and insurance broker The Judge, suggested that recent civil litigation costs reforms in the United Kingdom and the increasing sophistication of the country’s litigation funding market could make the services of ...
Posted by Jack Ellis, IAM Magazine on 14 June 2013 @ 1:00PM
ZTE bets that a demonstrable commitment to IP will pay handsome dividends
This week saw ZTE announce a worldwide patent-licensing agreement with Dolby Audio Technologies for patents covering High-Efficiency Advanced Audio Coding, a crucial technology used in many smartphones. This move follows the company’s announcement earlier this year of another licensing agreement with Microsoft relating to patents covering the Android/Chrome platform. These deals, alongside other developments, indicate that despite its on-going battles with the US government, ZTE ...
Posted by Seher Hussain, IAM Magazine on 13 June 2013 @ 8:46AM
IPBC day 3: the CIPO role, deal volume and values, the nature of invention and more
The final instalment of our reports on events in and surrounding this year's IP Business Congress: The CIPO role – A debate on the motion “This house believes that the only way that chief IP officers can do their jobs as effectively as possible is to report directly to the CEO” produced what I thought was a surprising result, given that the exchanges took place in front of an IPBC crowd. When moderator Terry Ludlow of Chipworks called for the final vote, the team ...
Posted by Joff Wild, IAM Magazine on 12 June 2013 @ 3:18PM
IPBC day 2: meet the PMBs, a passionate new AIPLA president, missed opportunities in pharma
Thoughts and observations from the second day of this year’s IP Business Congress: PMBs – Here’s a new term that may or may not enter the lexicon: the Predatory Monopolist Bully (PMB). It was used by Loudon Owen of Patent Monetization Inc, who is a VC and as chairman of i4i played a key role in the company’s US Supreme Court triumph over Microsoft in 2011. Although he did not define in detailed terms what a PMB is, Owen may just have invented a phrase which is ...
Posted by Joff Wild, IAM Magazine on 11 June 2013 @ 5:15PM
Thoughts on Rader, Kappos and other things from the IPBC in Boston ...
When there’s time over the next couple of days I’ll try to put together a few blogs based on stuff seen and heard around this year’s IPBC Global, now underway in Boston. Here’s the first of them: Boston: We held our opening reception on the lawn of the John Joseph Moakley US Courthouse, which overlooks Boston harbour. It was warm in the early evening sun, the sky was cloudless, the water was a shimmering blue. When the weather is like it was yesterday Boston ...
Posted by Joff Wild, IAM Magazine on 10 June 2013 @ 12:37PM
After all the waiting, IPBC 2013 is about to get underway ....
In just a few hours the IP Business Congress Global 2013 will kick off in Boston with an opening reception at the John Joseph Moakley US Courthouse. After all the months of work, planning, stress and worry we now get to play! The last few hours before an event like this are always a bit nerve-wracking as you wonder whether you have thought of everything and hope that all the speakers turn up properly prepared and ready to engage in whole-hearted debate. This year, we have a great ...
Posted by Joff Wild, IAM Magazine on 09 June 2013 @ 5:00PM
