Patenting For Profits
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Securing essential protections is the best strategy.
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PwC report tells a tale of two economies In the West, litigation is so last century. These days, intellectual property is all about the value and the strategy.â¦
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There's a lot of money to be made in open source, both as a shareholder and for the company.
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A company finds a sneaky new way to silence security researchers: Claim that defeating its products infringes on patents. Commentary by Jennifer Granick.
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For manufacturers, chasing short-term profit can erode long-term value.
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Millions of inventions pass quietly through the U.S. patent office each year. Patent No. 7,033,406 did, too, until energy insiders spotted six words in the filing that sounded like a death knell for the internal combustion engine.
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High-stakes patent royalties battle enters another round.
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If you build it -- and it's cool -- they will come. The business model to support it comes later. That's the new economics of the free lunch: Giving away a product or service builds the customer attention and loyalty that rack up earnings.
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House of Reps. approve smaller fines in copyright spats A new US law which would reduce the damages to be paid out for patent infringement has been passed by one half of the US legislature. The proposed law was backed by large technology firms and banks but opposed by smaller tech companies and drug companies.â¦
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Hefty valuations = a bet on the future.  That future is clearly open source + SaaS, based on the multiples people are willing to pay.
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Companies with growing yields can make you rich in more ways than what's obvious.
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A patent application turned up by the Associated Press reveals that IBM has proposed an electronic trading system that would enable a new kind of derivatives market for intellectual property. In this market, traders would buy and sell "floating" rights to chunks of a company's IP portfolio, thus becoming not only the recipient of royalties from that portfolio, but the designated defender of those IP rights in court, for a limited period of time.
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OCTOBER 04, 2004  - Some things are patently ridiculous. One is the US patent system, an institution in desperate need of reform.
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Discover how much of a company's profits are going back to shareholders.
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Big opportunities await patient investors in nanotech, cleantech, and robotics.
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For an investor, being creative and going the extra mile can sometimes lead to big profits.
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Plus: Outstanding earnings for Apple...Xerox profits from color printers...Alltel profit, revenue rise...SanDisk earnings top estimates.