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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 are 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, as there always are, and we will look at these carefully; but, in general, the reception has been very good. Personally, I was ...
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
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
NPE and operating company to merge in new-style structure that could suit changing times
What looks to be a new kind of IP monetisation entity will become a reality next month should a shareholder vote scheduled for 20th June approve a proposed merger between NPE Lexington Technology Group and the NASDAQ-quoted speciality packager and authentication provider DSS Inc. As far as I can tell, this would be the first merger between an NPE and an operating company. The new outfit will take the DSS moniker and earlier this week I spoke to LTG’s Jeff Ronaldi and Peter ...
Posted by Joff Wild, IAM Magazine on 07 June 2013 @ 1:11PM
IPXI model offers solutions without the headache of legislative reform
After several years in the making, IP rights trading platform Intellectual Property Exchange International (IPXI) has launched by offering its first unit licence rights (ULRs) to the market. In webinars held yesterday, IPXI representatives outlined the exchange’s business model and gave details of the rights on offer, as well as the methods used to price them. This first batch of ULRs to be offered on the exchange give access to a portfolio of more than 600 patents and ...
Posted by Jack Ellis, IAM Magazine on 06 June 2013 @ 11:13AM
The Executive Office of the US President publishes a truly depressing report on PAEs
Alongside the White House Taskforce on High-Tech Patent Issues legislative recommendations and executive actions designed to curb abuses of the patent system issued today, the Executive Office of the President has published a report from the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, the National Economic Council, and the Office of Science & Technology Policy entitled Patent Assertion and US Innovation. It is a thoroughly depressing piece of work. Not because of the bleak ...
Posted by Joff Wild, IAM Magazine on 04 June 2013 @ 5:26PM
