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IndustryWeek October 1, 2007 Jill Jusko |
Patent Protection Your valuable intellectual property requires keen oversight. To help keep it safe, consider these actions.  |
IEEE Spectrum June 2007 Suhas Sreedhar |
Peer Review Starts for Software Patent Applications Hoping to curtail the orgy of tech-industry litigation, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office recently launched an Internet-based peer-review program whereby anyone can help to evaluate a number of software patent applications voluntarily submitted for public evaluation.  |
Information Today July 6, 2010 George H. Pike |
Supreme Court Confirms Patentability of Business Methods, Denies Bilski Patent The lengthy and complex decision, entitled Bilski v. Kappos, affirmed the legality of business method patents, while leaving unanswered some questions about the scope and breadth of such patents.  |
IEEE Spectrum February 2006 Lee A. Hollaar |
Patents 2.0 There are big problems with patents, especially software patents. A new type of patent is needed -- Congress should create a new, limited protection that protects against knockoffs without overreaching.  |
IEEE Spectrum November 2008 Kirk Teska |
Commentary: Business-Method Patents--Down But Not Out? The Bilski case leaves us with more questions than answers  |
Scientific American August 2007 |
Worse Than Gasoline Liquid coal would produce roughly twice the global warming emissions of gasoline.  |
InternetNews March 22, 2010 |
Microsoft Rules the Software Patents Hill Again In the annual race to win as many patents as possible, Microsoft ends up in front at least in the software category. So how valuable are those patents to a company the size of Microsoft?  |
Information Today October 16, 2006 K. Matthew Dames |
The Patent System on Tilt: IBM Seeks to Change the Game IBM wants to change the way the patent system works, holding itself out as an exemplar of openness.  |
IndustryWeek August 1, 2006 |
Patents: Eleven Issues To Consider... How patent savvy are you?  |
IEEE Spectrum November 2006 Harry Goldstein |
Patent Power The world's most valuable patent portfolios: Boeing... Ricoh... IBM... Hitachi... etc.  |
IEEE Spectrum March 2009 Steven J. Frank |
The Death of Business-Method Patents From now on, you can get a U.S. patent only on a mousetrap -- not on the idea of catching mice  |
The Motley Fool October 3, 2007 Rich Duprey |
No Patents on Thinking ... Yet Over the years, the U.S. Patent office has patented a few too many ideas. The Supreme Court is now spending more time deciding whether a company has really infringed on a patent, rather than automatically issuing an infringement.  |
Inc. June 2006 Athena Schindelheim |
Great Moments In Patent History With the blockbuster BlackBerry settlement and a case involving eBay before the Supreme Court, the dowdy world of patent law is suddenly hot.  |
Technology Research News May 18, 2005 |
Catalyst Boosts Gasoline Fuel Cells Researchers have come up with a catalyst layer that can be put over a conventional anode to reform the fuel within the fuel cell. This allows hydrocarbons like gasoline to be used directly in fuel cells.  |
IEEE Spectrum August 2005 Ben Klemens |
New Legal Code Copyrights should replace software patents.  |
IEEE Spectrum November 2007 William Sweet |
Keeping Score in the IP Game Quantity and concentration of patents strengthen the case for legislative reform.  |
InternetNews November 24, 2004 Jim Wagner |
Nick Godici, Commissioner for Patents, USPTO The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office has been taking a lot of heat in recent years over software patents. Sitting at the center of the firestorm, and the patent process, is Nick Godici, the agency's Commissioner for Patents.  |
InternetNews January 28, 2008 Stuart J. Johnston |
Microsoft: King of The Patent Hill Microsoft emerges as top tech patent holder with more than 15,000 patents pending.  |
Bio-IT World November 12, 2002 Andrew W. Torrance |
After the Gene Rush About 20,000 gene-related patents have been granted in the U.S. so far, with twice as many on the way. The practical and political challenges are equally large.  |
CIO September 28, 2011 Grant Gross |
Controversial Business-Method Patents Face New Attacks A new law revamps the patent system and gives rivals an eight-year window to challenge IT-related patents in the financial-services industry.  |
Knowledge@Wharton September 10, 2003 |
Hybrid Autos: Will the Big Three Catch up with Toyota and Honda? The news that Toyota outsold Chrysler in August to take the No.3 position in U.S. car sales for the first time focuses attention on a growth area where all three U.S. manufacturers are lagging several years behind -- the market for gasoline/electric hybrid vehicles.  |
InternetNews May 20, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner |
A Primer on Software Patents A closer look at software patents and at their history and implications for IT.  |
CFO May 1, 2008 Marie Leone |
Patents under Pressure The battle over business-method patents heads to court in what may be a landmark decision.  |
Chemistry World September 14, 2007 Peter Mitchell |
European Patents Set to Get Cheaper Patents valid across many European countries will soon be much easier and cheaper to register, with the coming into force of the so-called London Agreement.  |
The Motley Fool November 8, 2004 Bill Paul |
Alternative Energy: Ready or Not? Even with a boost from higher oil prices and growing concern about global warming, the payoff on most alternative energy technologies seems a ways off.  |
Financial Advisor October 2006 Michael Brier |
Patently Foolish? Allowing financial firms to patent tax strategies may mean you and your clients have to foot the bill.  |
Inc. July 24, 2002 Jennifer A. Redmond |
Strategic Patenting What to consider when you're filing a patent and strategic decisions you'll need to make.  |
National Defense February 2009 Frodl & Manoyan |
Converting U.S. Car Park to Hybrids Should Be Priority One Reducing personal vehicle demand for gasoline is the quickest and most effective way to cut our consumption of crude oil, and by extension, make our nation more secure.  |
The Motley Fool March 25, 2011 Travis Hoium |
Schweitzer-Mauduit International Shares Plunged: What You Need to Know Shares of Schweitzer-Mauduit fell 10% today when the company announced one of its patents had been "rejected."  |
PC Magazine August 29, 2007 |
Cell Phones That Shouldn't Be Comb through the archives of the U.S. Patent Office and you will find some truly bizarre and hilarious inventions that never made it to the market.  |
InternetNews November 16, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
PubPat Claims 'Prior Art' on JPEG Patent The Public Patent Foundation is asking the U.S. Patent office to take another look at the data compression format.  |
Bank Systems & Technology January 13, 2004 Ivan Schneider |
Patent Troubles Pending in Financial Services Rise of business-method patents creates industry concern.  |
CFO December 1, 2011 Marielle Segarra |
Putting a Price on Patents CFOs can play a critical role in bringing financial discipline to their companies' intellectual-property portfolios.  |
Pharmaceutical Executive September 1, 2010 |
Looking Beyond the Patent Cliff Pfizer's VP and Assistant General Counsel for Global Patents and Policy, Roy Waldron, discusses its collaborative strategy to refresh the face of IP.  |
Chemistry World January 17, 2013 Simon Hadlington |
Nanotech patent jungle set to become denser in 2013 As we welcome in 2013, will nanotechnology continue to dominate many of the scientific headlines in the coming year, just as it has done over the past decade?  |
AskMen.com March 19, 2003 Steve Richer |
How To: Patent An Invention Investors will not do business with you until you have that precious little number that guarantees that you own the rights to the invention. Read on to see how you can obtain a patent.  |
IEEE Spectrum June 2007 Gunderman & Hammond |
File Now, Pay Later The pitfalls of the provisional patent application.  |
Bank Technology News July 2008 Glen Fest |
Intellectual Property on Trial The Financial Services Roundtable and several institutional members such as Bank of America are urging a federal court to overturn the patentability of certain business method processes.  |
Salon.com October 23, 2000 Damien Cave |
Who ya gonna call? Patent busters! BountyQuest CEO Charles Cella explains why his Web site is offering cash to patent destroyers...  |
National Defense September 2009 Frodl & Manoyan |
National Security and Energy: Setting the Right Priorities The Center for Naval Analyses report, "Powering America's Defenses: Energy and the Risks to National Security," makes a case that national security interests are consistent with concerns about climate change.  |
IEEE Spectrum May 2009 |
Forum: Our Readers Write Stockpiling nuclear weapons... Patent protection...  |
BusinessWeek August 16, 2004 John Carey |
Global Warming Consensus is growing among scientists, governments, and business that they must act fast to combat climate change. This has already sparked efforts to limit CO2 emissions. Many companies are now preparing for a carbon-constrained world.  |
Information Today March 29, 2004 Nancy Lambert |
Thomson Derwent Provides a First View on Patents The Thomson Derwent World Patents Index is a major resource for international patent searching by subject, especially in chemical areas.  |
Information Today September 15, 2011 George H. Pike |
Congress Enacts Patent Reform Legislation In what is being described as the most substantial overhaul of U.S. patent law in nearly 60 years, Congress passed the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, patent reform legislation that has been years in the making.  |
Reason November 2008 |
Letters Letters to the Editor: Carbon: tax, trade, or deregulate?...  |
U.S. Banker March 2007 Lee Conrad |
Lawsuit On Patent Technique Upsets Tax Apple Cart The number of business-method patents has been escalating for years. But now a new lawsuit on a common tax technique is threatening to upset the wealth-management cart.  |
InternetNews September 3, 2009 |
Microsoft: Can't Our Patent Systems Get Along? Senior Microsoft legal eagle advocates "harmonization" of patent systems worldwide in blog post.  |
InternetNews March 28, 2011 |
What is the Value of Red Hat's Patents? Linux leader Red Hat has now been recognized for the strength of its patents, what is it doing with all that intellectual property?  |
The Motley Fool September 17, 2011 |
What's Fueling the Tech Patent Bull Market? As companies amass patents to sue each other, is it time for the patent system to be reformed?  |
Wired June 2000 Evan Ratliff |
Patent Upending The invention police can't stand Greg Aharonian, who says the fuss over Amazon's "one-click" plan is old news. The real problem: The government lost its grip on intellectual property long ago....  |