Chief Executive just ran a great article on how to evaluate legal risk in acquisitions that I believe is a must read for any Supply Management department asked to consult on a Merger or Acquisition. Especially since, like the article states, it is nearly impossible to find a company not involved in some sort of […]
The Patent Frenzy began when Francis Holton filed the millionth patent in the United States Patent Office for a tubeless vehicle tire. From 1790 (when the first patent was filed on July 31) to 1911, only one million patents were filed. In the last hundred years, almost fourteen million patents were filed, with over four […]
In yesterday’s post, we discussed some of the suggestions from Henry Nothhaft’s recent book, Great Again, on How to Revitalize our Innovation Engine. These suggestions included the liberation of entrepreneurs and start-ups from start-up killing taxes and regulations, the restoration of the VC engine to an earlier design where it worked well, and ending the […]
I enjoyed this post over on the HBR Blogs that said you should stop obsessing over intellectual property rights because what inevitably happens when companies obsess over IP rights is patent frenzy, and that just results in patent pirates plundering. And if that isn’t bad enough, since the full text of your patent is only […]
According to a recent article in Strategy+Business on a return, not to normal, but to reality, Mark Anderson believes that three critical measures need to be put in place before serious recovery can begin: Better Protection of Intellectual Property Considering that most protection seems to revolve around patents that are abused by software patent pirates, […]